Dromore
Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Droim Mór
- Area
- 213.6 ha
- 528 acres
- Land parcels
- 145
- registered freehold, median 4,576 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
145 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 51 m² to 146,190 m² (14.62 ha, 36.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 Aug 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2561381
8 Oct 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461580
10 Oct 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351521
4 Nov 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 1 & 1/2 STOREY DORMER TYPE PITCHED ROOF DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL SERVICES
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251808
9 Sept 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251514
4 Apr 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRAL GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250576
27 Aug 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151701
21 Jul 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151456
12 May 2021Conditional
(A) DEVELOPMENT OF A DETACHED METAL STORAGE SHED (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (C) TEMPORARY USE OF THE DOMESTIC GARAGE STRUCTURE AS ACCOMMODATION FOR THE APPLICANTS USE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR (A) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM ON SITE AND INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150898
17 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150258
8 Jul 2020Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050899
24 Aug 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ADJACENT TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851320
26 Jul 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, A PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851153
30 Apr 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, IAB APPROVED SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND CONSTRUCTED PERCOLATION AREA, PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850668
29 Nov 2017Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER THE PLANNING REFERENCE 08/20861 AND FURTHER EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 13/50225 TO A DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING WHICH SHALL CONNECT TO A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PERMISSION 08/20861 AND FURTHER EXTENDED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 13/50225 AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751800
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC 000133
- Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) 000133
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromore.
Architectural heritage
- Eddrim Bridge, bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
Description
Double-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1893, carrying former Donegal Town to Killybegs narrow gauge railway line over the Eddrim River. Railway lines no out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960); bridge now out of use. Segmental-headed arches with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs having dressed margins; skewed squared rubble stone masonry to arch barrels. Coursed rock-faced masonry construction to piers. Squared rock-faced stone construction to spandrels and to parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets. Deck now overgrown. Located to the west of Donegal Town and to the north-east of Mountcharles. Site of former Killymard railway station adjacent to the west (now demolished).
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Dromore, Mountcharles8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Dromore · An Droim Mór
- Area
- 2,136,279 m² (213.63 ha, 527.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donegal electoral division: 4,179 people in 1,617 households; 71% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumkeelan, Eddrim Glebe, Glen, Glencoagh, Scrawhill
- 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.