Drumavish

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumavish, from 166 m² to 366,095 m² (36.61 ha, 90.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Drumavish 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.

• 28 Aug 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING SLATTED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK, ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCRETE YARD AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951320

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 Drumavish.

Recorded monuments

• DG078-032 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no sign of the enclosure shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated in mixed pasture overlooking the Finn Valley to the N. 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

• School, 1850–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former national school on T-shaped plan, dated 1856, having advanced gable-fronted block to the centre of the entrance front (north). Now in use as a private house. Hipped natural slate roof to main body of building having projecting cut stone eaves course. Pitched natural slate roof to breakfront\porch having raised ashlar sandstone gable coping to the north gable end, and with stepped rendered chimneystack. Uncoursed rubble stone walls over projecting rendered rubble stone plinth course (to north elevation) and with flush bush-hammered ashlar block-and-start quoins to the corners; probably originally rendered. Cut sandstone plaque over doorway to breakfront reading ‘Drumavish National School 1856’. Square-headed window openings having flush red brick surrounds, smooth rendered reveals, cut stone sills, and with replacement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the projecting breakfront having cut stone plinth, red brick surrounds, smooth rendered reveals, and with replacement battened timber door. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-west of Killygordon, and a short distance to the north-east of Drumavish.

• Outbuilding, walled garden, 1800–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a yard to the south of Woodlands (house now ruinous), built c. 1810 and c. 1840, comprising detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south of complex and detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the west. Now out of use and site overgrown in places. Pitched natural slate roof to two-storey outbuilding and hipped natural slate roof to single-storey outbuilding having projecting cut stone eaves courses, clay ridge tiles, and surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed rubble stone walls with remains of roughcast render. Square-headed window and door openings with remains of timber fittings. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to outbuilding to the south having roughly squared and dressed rubble stone voussoirs to arch. Yard to the north now in use for agricultural purposes. Remains of walled garden (on rectangular-plan) adjacent to the west\south-west having rubble stone boundary walls. Remains of Woodlands house to the north comprising a five-bay two-storey over basement ruin on L-shaped plan having return to the rear (south) and with single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the north elevation. Remains of hipped and pitched natural slate roofs with cut stone eaves course and rendered chimneystacks. Hipped roof to porch. Rendered walls with raised block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills. Square-headed opening to the front elevation of porch; flight of cut stone steps to porch. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds to the south-west of Killygordon.

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 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 Drumavish.

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

Name

Drumavish · Droim Aibhéise

Area

1,589,144 m² (158.91 ha, 392.69 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gleneely electoral division: 1,672 people in 557 households; 89% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacor, Carn, Carrickshandrum, Kilcaddan, Mountainpark, Sallywood

Placenames

Drumavish 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.