# Dromore Big, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,049,534 m² (104.95 ha, 259.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,935 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Feddyglass, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16354 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50965 - Centre: latitude 54.888669, longitude -7.562549 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore Big, from 25 m² to 305,770 m² (30.58 ha, 75.56 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1370046: 305,770 m² (30.58 ha, 75.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1370046.md - Parcel 1318104: 227,985 m² (22.8 ha, 56.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318104.md - Parcel 1346868: 222,929 m² (22.29 ha, 55.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346868.md - Parcel 3696840: 145,600 m² (14.56 ha, 35.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3696840.md - Parcel 4220024: 63,035 m² (6.3 ha, 15.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4220024.md - Parcel 4094911: 16,951 m² (1.7 ha, 4.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4094911.md - Parcel 1410644: 10,751 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410644.md - Parcel 1373944: 8,404 m² (0.84 ha, 2.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373944.md - Parcel 1352800: 7,827 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352800.md - Parcel 1398880: 5,976 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398880.md - Parcel 1378628: 4,667 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378628.md - Parcel 1421813: 4,213 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421813.md - Parcel 1424049: 4,008 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424049.md - Parcel 1332867: 3,502 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332867.md - Parcel 1335546: 2,369 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335546.md - Parcel 1408971: 2,324 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408971.md - Parcel 1368884: 2,054 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1368884.md - Parcel 1395291: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395291.md - Parcel 1393849: 1,996 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393849.md - Parcel 5412002: 1,858 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5412002.md - Parcel 1393213: 1,225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393213.md - Parcel 1380493: 1,179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380493.md - Parcel 1392071: 817 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392071.md - Parcel 1337119: 725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337119.md - Parcel 1334709: 600 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334709.md - Parcel 1391353: 360 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391353.md - Parcel 4900906: 200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900906.md - Parcel 4900905: 25 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4900905.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dromore Big 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 14 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460335: Conditional. Retention. (1) AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460335/0 - 17 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951108: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951108/0 - 30 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950806: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENTT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950806/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Dromore Big. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromore Big. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromore Big. ## 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 Dromore Big, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromore Big. - 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/dromore-big.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dromore-big.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dromore-big.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dromore Big 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) - Ballyholey Near: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyholey-near.md - Carnshannagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnshannagh.md - Carrickadawson: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickadawson.md - Dromore Little: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dromore-little.md - Drumbeg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbeg.md - Magheestown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magheestown.md - Magherasollus: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherasollus.md - Oakfield Demesne: https://everytownland.com/donegal/oakfield-demesne.md - Slievebuck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/slievebuck.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/dromore-big - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/dromore-big