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Townland

Drum

An Droim

The small Roscommon townland appears separately from the wider parish sharing its name.

Recorded locationDrum53.39956° N · 8.03776° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

droimridge

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Droim · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Drum · English · main form

Place & story

The original census row

The 1911 census lists Drum as a townland of twenty acres, one rood and twenty-seven perches in Thomastown electoral division, Brideswell dispensary district and the Roscommon part of Athlone Poor Law Union. Its row records one uninhabited house and no residents. The comparison cells contain no houses or population for 1891 or 1901. The table gives no explanation for the empty house, so it does not establish why it was vacant or whether that condition persisted. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Roscommon
Civil parish
Drum
Coordinates
53.39956, -8.03776
Mapped area
0.08 km²
Logainm ID
42616 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1911 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Drum. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Roscommon, Table VII, printed page 9 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London; printed by The Athlone Printing Works Company, Limited, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.