Drumabodan

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumabodan, from 295 m² to 314,079 m² (31.41 ha, 77.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Drumabodan 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562263

• 4 Dec 2024Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE INTO A SELF-CONTAINED FLAT AUXILIARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461991

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURL MACHINERY STORE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051953

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA 004060
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

• DG045-013 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch map. The area is now heavily forested but was formerly poor land. 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

• Ballydone Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch bridge, built c.1860, carrying road over Lennan River, comprising segmental arches with dressed stone voussoirs triangular rendered cut-water, coursed rubble piers and abutments, coursed rubble walls with string course and coursed rubble stone parapets with flat rendered copings.

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 Drumabodan, about 1 in 5 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 Drumabodan.

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

Name

Drumabodan

Area

1,319,636 m² (131.96 ha, 326.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Kilmacrenan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,525 people lived in 538 households in the Kilmacrenan electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawoney, Ballykeeran, Ballyscanlan Upper, Gortnavern, Letter, Ray, Tawny Lower

Placenames

Drumabodan 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.