Drumatoland
Drumatoland is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 196.8 ha
- 486 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,175 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumatoland, from 161 m² to 293,618 m² (29.36 ha, 72.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumatoland 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
16 Mar 2026Conditional
REMOVAL OF EXISTING STEEL STRUCTURE AND ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660433
18 Dec 2025Conditional
DWELLING INCLUDING RELOCATION OF THE DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 96/1751 ALONG WITH FIRST FLOOR RENOVATION WHICH CONSISTS OF 2 NO. BEDROOMS AND 1 NO. BATHROOM AND PERMISSION FOR REPLACEMENT OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562264
22 Aug 2025N/a
RELOCATION OF DWELLING FROM LOCATION SHOWN ON ORIGINAL PLANNING APPLICATION REF. NO. 96/1751 AND PERMISSION FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF FIRST FLOOR RENOVATION
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561453
11 Feb 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED COW SHED WITH UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANKS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN FARM COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250215
27 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151047
18 Dec 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ELECTRICITY OVERHEAD POWER LINE WITH ASSOCIATED POLES, MASTS, UNDERGROUND CABLING, SITE WORKS AND ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT, FOR A 38KV GRID CONNECTION TO LINK THE CONSENTED LETTERGULL WIND FARM, MOMEEN AND LETTERGULL TOWNLANDS, RAPHOE WITH THE EXISTING LETTERKENNY 110KV SUBSTATION IN LISTILLION TOWNLAND, LETTERKENNY. THE POWER LINE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 10.16 KILOMETRES LONG. ALL STRUCTURES RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM 12 METRES TO 19 METRES. THE MAJORITY OF THE OVERHEAD LINE STRUCTURES ARE WOODEN POLE SETS; INCLUDING 5 STEEL MAST STRUCTURES. THE ELECTRICITY POWER LINE WILL BE OVERHEAD EXCEPT FOR SHORT SECTIONS ALONG THE FOLLOWING ROAD SECTIONS; N13-8 LISTILLION TOWNLAND (TD.), L-5794-1 LISTILLION TD., L-5634-2 KINCRAIGY TD., L-5644-1 ROOSKEY TD. AND L-5664-1 ROOSKEY TD. WHERE IT IS TO BE LAID UNDERGROUND. THE PROPOSED POWER CABLE WILL TRAVERSE THE FOLLOWING TOWNLANDS (FROM SUBSTATION TO CONSENTED WIND FARM SITE); LISTILLION TD, LURGY TD, KNOCKBRACK TD, AGHLEHARD TD, TREANAVINNY TD, GLENMAQUIN LOWER TD (PART UNDERGROUND) KINCRAIGY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), ROOSKEY TD (PART UNDERGROUND), LISCLAMERTY TD, CARRICKNAMART TD, MONDOOEY UPPER TD, MONDOOEY MIDDLE TD, BALLYHOLEY FAR TD, DRUMATOLAND TD, SHESKINAPOLL TD, CARRICKADAWSON TD, WOODLAND TD AND MOMEEN TD (PART UNDERGROUND)
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2051961
19 Apr 2017Unconditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING RUINS AND ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750583
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumatoland.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumatoland.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumatoland.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumatoland, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumatoland.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumatoland with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumatoland
- Area
- 1,967,668 m² (196.77 ha, 486.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Treantaghmucklagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 860 people lived in 282 households in the Treantaghmucklagh electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 44% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardagh, Ballyholey Far, Brockagh, Carrickadawson, Castledowey, Momeen, Sheskinapoll
- Placenames
- Drumatoland 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.