# Drean, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 818,809 m² (81.88 ha, 202.33 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Manorcunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15640 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50954 - Centre: latitude 54.969594, longitude -7.606521 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drean, from 308 m² to 171,188 m² (17.12 ha, 42.3 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331763: 171,188 m² (17.12 ha, 42.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331763.md - Parcel 1393912: 94,903 m² (9.49 ha, 23.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393912.md - Parcel 1354957: 78,714 m² (7.87 ha, 19.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354957.md - Parcel 1346826: 78,168 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346826.md - Parcel 1411416: 74,647 m² (7.46 ha, 18.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411416.md - Parcel 1316038: 52,209 m² (5.22 ha, 12.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316038.md - Parcel 1370160: 48,147 m² (4.81 ha, 11.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1370160.md - Parcel 1409564: 47,762 m² (4.78 ha, 11.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409564.md - Parcel 1409939: 38,132 m² (3.81 ha, 9.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409939.md - Parcel 1339825: 32,438 m² (3.24 ha, 8.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339825.md - Parcel 1403580: 30,115 m² (3.01 ha, 7.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403580.md - Parcel 1407313: 13,990 m² (1.4 ha, 3.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407313.md - Parcel 1386438: 11,587 m² (1.16 ha, 2.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386438.md - Parcel 1407489: 6,382 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407489.md - Parcel 1373818: 5,095 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373818.md - Parcel 1373558: 3,900 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373558.md - Parcel 1409641: 3,563 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409641.md - Parcel 3659640: 3,004 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659640.md - Parcel 1409682: 2,983 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409682.md - Parcel 1408419: 2,684 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408419.md - Parcel 1376297: 2,594 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376297.md - Parcel 1408368: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408368.md - Parcel 1375557: 2,490 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375557.md - Parcel 4774391: 1,816 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4774391.md - Parcel 1410412: 1,119 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410412.md - Parcel 1374555: 1,097 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374555.md - Parcel 1374857: 1,047 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374857.md - Parcel 1374519: 984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374519.md - Parcel 1305442: 820 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305442.md - Parcel 4289949: 698 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4289949.md - Parcel 4793930: 562 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4793930.md - Parcel 1410202: 537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410202.md - Parcel 1376084: 520 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376084.md - Parcel 1375855: 466 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375855.md - Parcel 1374793: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374793.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 25 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660501: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE ATTACHED TO REAR OF DWELLING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52014. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660501/0 - 19 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562303: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER, ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562303/0 - 15 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562220: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562220/0 - 26 Aug 2024, Donegal County Council 2450198: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450198/0 - 25 Jan 2024, Donegal County Council 2450024: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450024/0 - 13 Mar 2023, Donegal County Council 2350307: N/a. Outline permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350307/0 - 19 Dec 2022, Donegal County Council 2252014: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2252014/0 - 12 Apr 2022, Donegal County Council 2250633: N/a. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250633/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287 - Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG054-016: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG054-017----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drean. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drean.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drean.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drean.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drean with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Highbank: https://everytownland.com/donegal/highbank.md - Maghera Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/maghera-beg.md - Moneyhaughly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneyhaughly.md - Veagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/veagh.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drean - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drean