Drean

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drean, from 308 m² to 171,188 m² (17.12 ha, 42.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drean 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.

• 25 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO REAR OF DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52014

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660501

• 19 Dec 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562303

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562220

• 26 Aug 2024Conditional

  (1) AS BUILT DWELLING ON SITE WHICH DIFFERS FROM THE DWELLING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 00/6040 AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING CONSTRUCTED FROM DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS & CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING APPROVED ONSITE SERVICES & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450198

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO DOMESTIC GARAGE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. 06/40097 AND PERMISSION FOR (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS, AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450024

• 13 Mar 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350307

• 19 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FULLY SERVICED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE (2) NEW PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE (3) PROPOSED BORED WELL (4) PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252014

• 12 Apr 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FULLY SERVICED BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE (2) AN ADJACENT DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICULAR ENTRANCE, BORED WELL, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250633

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG054-016 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Standing Stone' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map and as 'Standing Stone (site of)' on the 3rd edition. There are no visible remains. Situated on the NW slope of a hill, with good views. 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

• DG054-017 Souterrain
  Description

  A 'cave' roofed with large flags was discovered here a long time ago. The flags were removed. There is no surface indication of a souterrain now. It was situated on top of a ridge of good land known as White Hill. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drean.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drean, 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 Drean.

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.

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

Name

Drean

Area

818,809 m² (81.88 ha, 202.33 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Manorcunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,314 people lived in 475 households in the Manorcunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Highbank, Maghera Beg, Moneyhaughly, Veagh

Placenames

Drean 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.