Drumaville

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumaville, from 9 m² to 102,870 m² (10.29 ha, 25.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  AGRICULTURAL SHED CONSISTING OF DRY BEDDED HORSE STABLES, A SEPARATE AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAIN SHED, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR OUTDOOR SAND ARENA LINKED TO THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560599

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560589

• 19 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560209

• 19 Dec 2024Conditional

  REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING ROADSIDE HEDGEROW, PROVISION OF A NEW ROADSIDE BOUNDARY FENCE WITH A NEW ENLARGED AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE GATE AND THE PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR HARDSTAND AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462124

• 13 Sept 2024N/a

  REMOVAL OF AN UNAUTHORISED ROADSIDE BOUNDARY FENCE AND ASSOCIATED AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE GATE AND THE PROVISION OF A NEW ROADSIDE BOUNDARY FENCE WITH A NEW ENLARGED AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE GATE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461436

• 19 Jun 2024Refused

  REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING ROADSIDE HEDGEROW, PROVISION OF A NEW ROADSIDE BOUNDARY FENCE WITH A NEW ENLARGED AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE GATE AND THE PROVISION OF A VEHICULAR HARDSTAND AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460918

• 23 Mar 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DONKEY STABLE TO INCLUDE DRY STORAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250523

• 6 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE STOREY DOUBLE GARAGE (70.6M2) TO NORTHWEST OF EXISTING HOUSE, ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES & ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151771

• 25 Nov 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE DESIGN TO REPLACE THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/50110

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951819

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FORESTRY ROAD ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850274

• 31 Jan 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK, INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750110

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 Drumaville.

Recorded monuments

• DG012-017 Cross-inscribed pillar
  Description

  Original location of a cross-inscribed pillar stone 1.1m high × 0.39m maximum width at the upper half. There is a plain Latin cross with a T-bar terminal at the bottom, and the upper half of a circle joining the top and the two arms. There is another complete circle in the centre at the point where the arms cross the shaft. The cross is .5m high × 0.24m across the arms. It is now situated in a field wall, but was originally sited in the centre of the field known as 'Lacht Field'. There was a cairn (DG012-017002-) some 6ft high associated with it; this has now disappeared. Flat grazing land, overlooking Tremone Bay, some distance to the North.

• DG012-017001 Cross-inscribed pillar (present location)
  Description

  A cross-inscribed pillar stone (DG012-017001-) 1.1m high × 0.39m maximum width at the upper half. There is a plain Latin cross with a T-bar terminal at the bottom, and the upper half of a circle joining the top and the two arms. There is another complete circle in the centre at the point where the arms cross the shaft. The cross is .5m high × 0.24m across the arms. It is now situated in a field wall, but was originally sited in the centre of the field known as 'Lacht Field'. There was a cairn (DG012-017002-) some 6ft high associated with it; this has now disappeared. Flat grazing land, overlooking Tremone Bay, some distance to the North. 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

• DG012-017002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  A cross-inscribed pillar stone (DG012-017001-) 1.1m high × 0.39m maximum width at the upper half. There is a plain Latin cross with a T-bar terminal at the bottom, and the upper half of a circle joining the top and the two arms. There is another complete circle in the centre at the point where the arms cross the shaft. The cross is .5m high × 0.24m across the arms. It is now situated in a field wall, but was originally sited in the centre of the field known as 'Lacht Field'. There was a cairn (DG012-017002-) some 6ft high associated with it; this has now disappeared. Flat grazing land, overlooking Tremone Bay, some distance to the North. 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

• Drumnagassan Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road over river bridge, built c. 1800. Segmental arch with squared rubble stone voussoirs. Random rubble walls and piers. Random rubble to vaults. Random rubble parapets with smooth rendered coping. Double carriageway with tarmac to deck.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with windbreak porch to front, in use as outbuilding. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves. Flat concrete roof to porch. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two horned timber sash windows, six-over-three horned timber sash window to east bay, with painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with battened timber door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding extension to north-west comprising of corrugated-metal roof and smooth rendered walls. Detached single-storey outbuilding comprising of pitched corrugated-metal roof and random rubble walls to north-west. Detached thatched outbuilding to north.

• Outbuilding, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1800. Pitched rounded straw-thatched roof with netting restraint and timber and metal rope stays to eaves. Whitewashed random rubble walls. Square-headed door openings with corrugated-metal doors. Set within grounds of modern bungalow. Thatched dwelling to south (see 40901238).

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumaville.

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.

No address of the register names Drumaville with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumaville

Area

1,481,407 m² (148.14 ha, 366.06 acres)

Civil parish

Culdaff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Turmone, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Turmone electoral division: 316 people in 120 households; 90% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycharry, Carrowbeg, Carrowmenagh, Leitrim

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.