Drumdangan
Drumdangan is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), barony of Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is Droim Daingean.
- Area
- 171.8 ha
- 425 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 1,519 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdangan, from 6 m² to 703,297 m² (70.33 ha, 173.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumdangan in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
29 Aug 2024Conditional
rear extension as built to existing dwelling, porch as built to side of existing dwelling, new window to side of existing dwelling and Permission for removal of existing septic tank and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter and associate works
Retention · Wicklow County Council, 2460530
11 Mar 2024Conditional
change of use the removal of Condition No. 2 of Planning Permission Reference No 00/3128, from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24123
23 Feb 2024N/a
change of use the removal of Condition No. 2 of Planning Permission Reference No 00/3128, from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2485
6 Feb 2024N/a
change of use (the removal of condition No. 2 of planning permission reference No 00/3128, which restricted its use to the applicant or to other persons who comply with the provisions of applicant or to the persons who comply with the provisions of objective RH1 of the County Development Plan 2010-2016 and as the Planning Authority agrees to in writing to use by all persons
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2453
20 Jan 2021Conditional
1) garage and work from home office for personal use only 2) first floor gable window 3) solar panels 4) and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2137
15 Dec 2020N/a
1) garage and work from home office for personal use only 2) first floor gable window 3) solar panels 4) and all associated site works
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 201288
22 Sept 2020Refused
1)Garage and work from home office for personal use only 2) First floor gable window, 3)solar panels, 4) And all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 20928
27 Nov 2017Conditional
bungalow, well, new vehicular entrance and driveway from proposed right of way to existing laneway which connects to the public road and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171408
23 Nov 2017N/a
bungalow, well, new vehicular entrance and driveway from proposed right of way to existing laneway which connects to the public road and for a new effluent treatment system to current EPA standards and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 171402
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Deputy's Pass Nature Reserve SAC 000717
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenealy Woods 001756
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumdangan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumdangan.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumdangan, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumdangan.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumdangan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Drumdangan · Droim Daingean
- Area
- 1,717,987 m² (171.8 ha, 424.52 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcommon (Rathdrum Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Newcastle
- Electoral division
- Rathdrum, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 3,173 people lived in 1,108 households in the Rathdrum electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bahana, Ballinacooley, Ballinakill, Ballydowling, Ballygannon More
- Placenames
- Drumdangan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.