Dromore

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 21 m² to 119,702 m² (11.97 ha, 29.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Dromore 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.

• 16 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, ALTERATION AND WIDENING OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TO CREATE NEW ENTRANCE AND INSTALLATION OF EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660210

• 9 Jun 2025Refused

  DEMOLITION OF DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, REFURBISHMENT OF SHEDS, WIDENING AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550081

• 30 Jul 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461159

• 6 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460284

• 13 Jul 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE & DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING A NEW ACCESS ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050919

• 17 Jan 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, REFURBISHMENT OF SHEDS, WIDENING AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050032

• 16 Dec 2019N/a

  DEMOLITION OF DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, REFURBISHMENT OF SHEDS, WIDENING AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951939

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

• DG103-013 Enclosure
  Description

  An enigmatic earthen mound with a shallow fosselike feature on its W side. The 'fosse' disappears on the E side and the mound also seems to weaken on this side. The site may be totally natural. It is situated on the bottom of the valley of a stream N of Glasbolie hillfort (DG103-017-) on a nearby hill top. 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 Dromore.

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, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromore.

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 Dromore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dromore

Area

1,407,371 m² (140.74 ha, 347.77 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagrorty Irish, Ballymagrorty Scotch, Birra, Drumhome, Drumoske, Foyagh, Glasbolie

Placenames

Dromore 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.