Drumaville
Townland in the civil parish of Clonca, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 527.2 ha
- 1,303 acres
- Land parcels
- 365
- registered freehold, median 4,934 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 45
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
365 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumaville, from 10 m² to 235,064 m² (23.51 ha, 58.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 81 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 Drumaville 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
23 Jun 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF SITE WORKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661153
10 Jun 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661056
1 May 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF SITE WORKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660785
21 Mar 2026N/a
(1) RETENTION OF SITE WORKS AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660464
3 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) SUNROOM TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE, (2) HIGHER RIDGE HEIGHT AND (3) BAY WINDOWS TO THE FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660319
16 Dec 2025Conditional
MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 05/70733, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562234
8 Dec 2025Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING STORAGE SHED (PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60301 REFERS), FOR THE PURPOSE OF STORAGE, MAINTENANCE AND RESTORATION OF OLD VINTAGE AND MUSCLE CARS WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562163
27 Nov 2025Conditional
(1) EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 92/1352, (2) SHED AND (3) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562086
9 Jun 2025Conditional
DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560951
12 May 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE BLOCK DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 03/4000
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560751
5 Feb 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560136
11 Jul 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461069
11 Mar 2024Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING STORAGE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460301
27 Feb 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350218
30 Jan 2023Conditional
GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350092
19 Jan 2023Conditional
CHANGE OF CONDITIONS 1(b) & 12 (a)-(d) OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 22/51425 TO INCLUDE CHANGE FROM TEMPORARY PERMISSION TO PERMANENT PERMISSION AND ALTERATIONS TO UPGRADE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL WATER SEWERAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350040
12 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251982
19 Sept 2022Refused
EXTENSION TO EXISTING STORAGE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251557
25 Aug 2022N/a
ERECTION OF A STORAGE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251430
25 Aug 2022Conditional
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER FURNITURE OUTLET/STORE TO FOOD PROCESSING PLANT WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO R238-30 AND FORMATION OF NEW ENTRANCE ONTO L-12814-0 (3) ERECTION OF ROADSIDE SIGNAGE (4) ON-SITE CAR PARKING, BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251425
14 Feb 2022Conditional
EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250225
3 Feb 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING (PLANNING REFERENCE: 04/5919) (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250149
20 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250048
23 Dec 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152625
14 Dec 2021N/a
(1) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER FURNITURE OUTLET/STORE TO FOOD PROCESSING PLANT WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO R238-30 AND FORMATION OF NEW ENTRANCE ONTO-12814-0 (3) ROADSIDE SIGNAGE (4) ON-SITE CAR PARKING, BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152492
The 25 most recent of 45 applications.
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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
- Special Protection Area: Trawbreaga Bay SPA 004034
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012
Recorded monuments
- DG011-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Very faint traces of a circular earthen bank suggest the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated in rough rocky but level ground on the edge of a bog. 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
- DG011-019 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Colhoun (1949) listed this site as a 'single chambered cairn or dolmen'. This is a large rock outcrop on which, according to an entry in an OS Revision Name Book (1848), there was then 'an ancient cairn of stones'. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 11 (1848), 103; Colhoun 1949, 116; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Bonner 1972, 16; SMR 1987, 11:19; Colhoun 1995, 31, no. 11/5; RMP 1995, 11:19. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG011-020 Ringfort - cashel
Description
Internal diam. c. 30m. A subcircular area enclosed by a drystone wall 2m wide and up to 1.5 m in height. There is a gap to the S. It is situated on a small patch of good 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
- DG011-021 Cairn - unclassified
Description
Colhoun (1949) listed this site as a 'multi-chambered cairn or dolmen'. The feature is a grass-grown mound c. 15m in diameter and 3.5m high, which seems to be partly natural (Lacy 1983). OS Revision Name Book, sheet 11 (1848), 105; Colhoun 1949, 116; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 127; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 140; Bonner 1972, 16; SMR 1987, 11:21; Colhoun 1995, 31, no. 11/6; RMP 1995, 11:21. A mound of stones c. 15m in diameter and 3.5m high which seems to be partly natural. It is situated in pasture with low rock outcrops abounding. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
- House, 1835–1855 · Regional interest
Description
Attached three-bay single-storey vernacular thatched house, built c. 1855, with central windbreak porch to front, bed outshot to rear and attached outbuilding. Pitched thatched roof held in place with ropes, gable ended chimneystacks with rendered copings. Roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber door. Set to north of modern bungalow on the western side of the main Carndonagh to Malin road.
- House, 1835–1875 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1855, with windbreak porch to front and two-bay extension to north gable and outbuilding to south gable. Pitched thatch roof, corrugated tin roof to extension, smooth rendered chimneystacks with rendered coping. Roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls, with smooth rendered porch. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door. Outbuilding with pitched tin roof, rendered gable coping, roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls and square-headed door openings and timber doors. Set perpendicular to road with hedge to front and rear.
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single-storey vernacular thatched house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front, two-bay extension to west gable and outbuilding to east. Pitched thatched roof, pitched corrugated tin to extension, with smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered copings. Roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls, smooth rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with timber one-over-one sash windows, smooth rendered reveals and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door. Single-storey outbuilding with pitched corrugated tin roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls and square-headed door openings with timber doors.
- House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
Description
Attached four-bay single and two-storey vernacular house, built c. 1820, with windbreak porch to front and modern extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered gable coping, pitched thatched roof, rendered gable ended chimneystacks. Smooth rendered whitewashed walls with smooth rendered plinth course to east gable. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with matchboard timber door behind half-door, with limestone flag paving outside door. Several single and two-storey outbuildings to the north-east with pitched slate and corrugated tin roofs, roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls with square-headed door openings with matchboard timber doors and half-doors. Semi-dry limestone wall to entrance with double leaf cast-iron gates mounted on stone piers.
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with single-cell porch to rear. Rounded thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves, with smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots. Roughcast rendered walls, smooth rendered to rear elevation and porch. Square-headed window openings rendered patent surrounds and three-over-three horned timber sash windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber door. Set within own grounds with complex of farm buildings to rear and with ruinous outbuildings and former thatched dwellings to east and to the south-east.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2153 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Drumaville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumaville
- Area
- 5,272,247 m² (527.22 ha, 1,302.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonca, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Culdaff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Culdaff electoral division: 1,027 people in 366 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickafodan, Carrowmore, Cashel, Churchland Quarters(Carrowtemple Moneyshandoney and Carrick), Clonca, Drumballycaslan, Drumcarbit, Norrira, Templemoyle
- Placenames
- Drumaville 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.