Drummin
Drummin is a townland in the civil parish of Preban, barony of Ballinacor South, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Dromainn.
- Area
- 119.6 ha
- 296 acres
- Land parcels
- 21
- registered freehold, median 48,510 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummin, from 598 m² to 177,472 m² (17.75 ha, 43.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Drummin 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
7 Apr 2025Refused
alterations to their existing dwelling. Alterations include, (1) a revised roof design to facilitate a partial conversion of the attic space and the installation of solar panels on the southwest facing roof. (2) It is proposed to wrap the external walls of the dwelling with external insulation
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 2560252
20 May 2024Conditional
a new dwelling house, provision of an entrance onto existing driveway, provision of a driveway, access to site by right of way, provision of an effluent treatment system to comply with current EPA requirements, provision of a well and associated works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 24226
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drummin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummin.
Architectural heritage
- Ballinglen Bridge, bridge, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding three-arch humpback bridge, built c.1780. The bridge is constructed in rubble field stone and has dressed granite voussoirs. The arches are semi-circular. The bridge carries the main road over the Derry Water River.
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 Drummin, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drummin.
- 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 Drummin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.
The townland
- Name
- Drummin · An Dromainn
- Area
- 1,195,949 m² (119.59 ha, 295.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Preban, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballinacor South
- Electoral division
- Ballinglen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 234 people lived in 81 households in the Ballinglen electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinglen, Ballybeg, Coolalug, Killaveny, Mucklagh
- Placenames
- Drummin 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.