Cloverhill or Drumbeg

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloverhill or Drumbeg, from 4,776 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres) to 24,223 m² (2.42 ha, 5.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cloverhill or Drumbeg 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.

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF PART ONE STOREY PART TWO STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, ACCESS ROAD AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751942

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cloverhill or Drumbeg.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. A subcircular platform up to .9m above the surrounding ground. On the NW side is the remains of a perimeter bank up to 2.4m high and an external silted-up fosse. The SE side is very badly eroded. The site is located on top of a ridge sloping to the SE as does the interior, in fairly good pasture. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Drumbeg House, walled garden, 1800–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Walled garden complex on irregular-plan associated with Drumbeg House/Clover Hill (see 40909209), erected c. 1820 and extended c. 1860. Now out of use, overgrown and inaccessible in places. Some recent alterations, c. 2007, including infilling of part of walled garden with earth from elsewhere on site. Walls constructed of coursed rubble and random rubble stone masonry with flush roughly dressed quoins to a number of the corners; ashlar and rubble stone coping. Square-headed doorways/entrances in places, now mostly blocked/infilled with rubble stone masonry. Remains of former glasshouses and rubble stone sheds/outbuildings on rectangular-plan to site, now ruinous. Formerly bowed section of boundary wall to the east recently removed. Located to the north-east of Drumbeg House/Clover Hill and to the west of Mountcharles. Site slopes from north/north-east to south/south-west towards the Eany Water and Inver Bay. Former garden pond associated with site (having island) survives to the east (now in separate ownership).

• Drumbeg House, gates/railings/walls, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway serving Drumbeg House or Clover Hill (see 40909809), erected c. 1760 and altered c. 1840, comprising a pair of ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having stepped cut stone capstones over and with carved stone rampant lion finials over and with shield motifs, that to the north-east pier now broken and that to the south-west pier now obscured by ivy/vegetation. Replacement wrought-iron flat-bar gate. Located at the north-west entrance to Drumbeg House/Clover Hill, and to the south-east of Inver. Tarmacadam approach avenue to house.

• Drumbeg House, house, country house, 1830–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former country house, built c. 1840 and extended c. 1890 and c. 1910, having central projecting single-bay single-storey porch to the front elevation (south), single-bay single-storey addition to the west elevation having later addition over, two-storey over basement with dormer attic level return to the rear (north) at the east corner (added c. 1890), and with central projecting stair return to the rear elevation (north). Later in use as a hotel with large multiple-bay three-storey over basement with attic level addition added to the west elevation and single-storey flat-roofed extension added to the west side of main entrance porch, c. 1910. External flight of concrete steps to the west elevation of three-storey return. Later in use as a retirement home, now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof having slightly overhanging eaves with timber brackets, a central pair of ashlar chimneystacks aligned parallel to roof ridge having ashlar stringcourses and terracotta pots over, iron rooflights, and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof to rear return having ashlar chimneystacks, projecting cut stone eaves course, and with gable-fronted half-dormer opening to the east elevation; hipped natural slate roof to stair return to rear. Flat roof to porch having moulded cornice at eaves level. Hipped natural slate roof to c. 1910 extension. Squared and randomly coursed rubble sandstone construction, probably originally rendered. Ashlar sandstone construction to porch having ashlar pilasters to the corners over moulded pedestals having moulded sill course/cornice, and with entablature over having dentil course/cornice. Ashlar sandstone construction to single-storey addition to the west elevation having moulded ashlar sandstone sill course and sandstone entablature over with dentil course/cornice. Rubble stone and squared rubble stone construction to return to the north-east corner. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined finish to later extensions, c. 1910. Square-headed window openings to main block having red brick voussoirs over, stone sills, and with eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and tripartite/Wyatt-style windows at ground floor level to front elevation having central six-over-six pane timber sliding sash window flanked by two-over-two pane windows. Round-headed window opening to front face of porch having two eight-pane timber casement windows with round-headed spoke fanlight over with coloured glass panels. Round-headed window opening to stair hall return (north) having twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed window openings to the east elevation of rear return having ten-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Variety of timber sliding sash windows to c. 1910 extensions. Square-headed doorway to the east face of porch having timber panelled double-doors with round-headed spoke fanlight over with coloured glass panels. Square-headed doorway to interior of porch having glazed timber double-doors with sidelights and round-headed fanlight over with sidelights. Stone threshold to entrance with ashlar sandstone boundary wall having chamfered ashlar coping over to east side over basement. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south of Inver and to the west of Mountcharles. House overlooks Inver Bay a short distance to the south. Former complex of walled gardens to the north (see 440909221) and gateway to the north-west (see 40909243). Fragmentary remains of former outbuildings to the north and north-west. Former entrance and approach avenue to the north, now closed. Converted and heavily-altered gate lodge to entrance. Well-maintained ornamental pond to the east formerly with house but now in separate ownership.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cloverhill or Drumbeg.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

No address of the register names Cloverhill or Drumbeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Cloverhill or Drumbeg · An Droim Beag

Area

534,827 m² (53.48 ha, 132.16 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bonnyglen electoral division: 387 people in 142 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cranny Lower, Gortaward, Mullanboys

Placenames

Cloverhill or Drumbeg 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.