Drummin
Drummin is a townland in the civil parish of Moyacomb, barony of Shillelagh, Co. Wicklow. Its name in Irish is An Dromainn.
- Area
- 142.9 ha
- 353 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 3,989 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummin, from 40 m² to 339,654 m² (33.97 ha, 83.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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
13 Jun 2026N/a
construction of a new two-storey detached dwelling house with attached garage/store, new vehicular entrance and access driveway utilising the existing entrance road and entrance gate, installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, provision of a new bored well water supply and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660520
29 May 2026N/a
construction of a new two-storey detached dwelling house with attached garage/store, new vehicular entrance and access driveway utilising the existing entrance road and entrance gate, installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, provision of a new bored well water supply and all associated site development works
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 2660480
18 Mar 2021Conditional
the erection of a two storey dwelling, domestic well, onsite wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associate site and landscaping works. The application includes a Natura Impact Statement (NIS).
Permission, 1 home · Wicklow County Council, 21285
22 Feb 2019Conditional
extension to side of existing dwelling and all associated works with permission to upgrade on site sewerage facilities and RETENTION of existing domestic garage
Permission · Wicklow County Council, 19192
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: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drummin.
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 moderately low, 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
- 1,428,775 m² (142.88 ha, 353.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Moyacomb, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shillelagh
- Electoral division
- Ballingate, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 415 people lived in 152 households in the Ballingate electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Balisland, Ballingate Upper, Glennashouk, Park, Raheengraney
- 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.