Drumark

96 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumark, from 54 m² to 96,594 m² (9.66 ha, 23.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Drumark 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.

• 13 Apr 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660627

• 23 Sept 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND THE CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO INCLUDE GRANNY FLAT ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461501

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED 2 STOREY PITCHED ROOF GARAGE AND HOME OFFICE, WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE USE AT GROUND LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE USE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL WITH EXTERNAL STAIR ACCESS TO THE FIRST FLOOR, ALL ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING, (2) ALL SERVICES, DRAINAGE, ROADWAY AND HARDSTANDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460974

• 21 Jun 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF GARAGE AND HOME OFFICE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE USE AT GROUND LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE USE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL WITH EXTERNAL STAIR ACCESS TO THE FIRST FLOOR, ALL ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING, (2) ALL SERVICES, DRAINAGE, ROADWAY AND HARDSTANDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460938

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  VARIOUS EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE BUILDING WITH ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING OFF LICENCE TO INCLUDE FOR SALE OF SPIRITS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351621

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050126

• 9 Aug 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A SIGNAGE TOWER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPEMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851228

• 3 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOUBLE SIDED ILLUMINATED FREESTANDING SUBDIVIDED SIGN OF APPROX. 1.5M WIDE AND 5.4M HIGH TO BE POSITIONED IN THE CAR PARK ADJOINING THE FRONT BOUNDARY WALL IN FRONT OF THE DOHERTY TILES BUILDING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850695

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumark.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumark.

Architectural heritage

• Drumark House, house, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with half-dormer attic level, built or rebuilt c. 1880, having central projecting flat-roofed glazed timber porch to the main elevation (south). Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof having clay ridge tiles, projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and having raised rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots over to either gable end (east and west). Moulded timber cornice and cast-iron balcony railing to porch. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered painted plinth course with smooth rendered strips to the corners. Square-headed window openings to ground floor having smooth painted rendered surrounds, stone sills and two-over-two horned timber sliding sash windows; segmental-headed windows to dormer attic level having decorative pierced timber bargeboards and two-over-two horned timber sash windows. Square-headed door opening to west elevation of porch having battened timber door, plain overlight and cut stone steps. Multi-pane windows to porch. Segmental-headed doorway behind porch having wide overlight, timber door and sidelights. Segmental-headed doorway to centre bay at first floor level, originally giving access to balcony over porch but now blocked. Set back from road in an elevated site in own grounds to the west of Donegal Town with views overlooking Donegal Bay to the south. Two-storey outbuilding to the rear having pitched natural slate roof, cement rendered walls and square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Lane way to house from the south.

• Duncan's Bridge House, house, 1880–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house with dormer attic former house, built c. 1890, having single gable-fronted dormer window opening to the centre of the main elevation (north). Now unoccupied. Steeply pitched natural slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to either gable end (east and west). Roof projects over eaves to side elevations. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth with render block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation (north). Square-headed window openings with plain raised render surrounds with shallow pointed heads, stone sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening to central dormer having plain raised render surrounds with shallow pointed head, stone sill, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window with Y-profile glazing bars to head, and with stone sill. Central square-headed door opening raised render surrounds with shallow pointed head, and with replacement timber door with replacement leaded overlight. Set slightly back from road to the west of Donegal Town centre. Gravel forecourt to site; single-storey return/extension to the rear recently removed.

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 Drumark, about 1 in 20 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1415 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drumark

Area

625,537 m² (62.55 ha, 154.57 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboyle, Ballydevitt, Doonan, Drumgun, Drumkeeghan, Drumstevlin, Rossylongan

Placenames

Drumark 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.