Drumbar

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbar, from 132 m² to 65,267 m² (6.53 ha, 16.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 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 Drumbar 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.

• 30 Aug 2026N/a

  MACHINERY SHED AND 2 NO. STORAGE UNITS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661599

• 7 Aug 2026N/a

  MACHINERY SHED AND 2 NO STORAGE UNITS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661482

• 24 Jul 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLINGHOUSE, NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE & PROPRIETARY TREATMENT PLANT INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2661383

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  DUNGSTEAD AND PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ROOFING OF THE DUNGSTEAD FOR WHICH RETENTION IS SOUGHT AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY FLOOR STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562245

• 27 Jun 2025N/a

  MACHINERY SHED AND 2 NO. STORAGE UNITS ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561085

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  TELECOMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT STRUCTURE CARRYING ANTENNA AND DISHES, COMMUNICATIONS CABIN AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN A CHAIN LINKED FENCED COMPOUND INCLUDING ACCESS TRACK PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 10/20064 AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL ANTENNA, DISH EQUIPMENT TO THE SUPPORT STRUCTURE INCLUDING GROUND EQUIPMENT CABINETS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560185

• 14 Feb 2022Conditional

  PERMISSION FOR A SOIL RECOVERY FACILITY AND RETENTION OF AN EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AT THE SAME SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250232

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  RETENTION & COMPLETION OF (1) ERECTION OF (A) AN INDUSTRIAL STORAGE SHED (B) A 0.33 ACRE EXTENSION TO THE AUTHORIZED STORAGE DEPOT YARD (C) FENCING OF THE PERIMETER OF THE UNAUTHORIZED YARD EXTENSION (D) A 22.5M LONG CONCRETE RETAINING WALL WITH A HEIGHT GREATER THAN 2M (E) A SCAFFOLDING STORE (2) RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS WITHIN THE AUTHORIZED YARD EXTENSION (3) THE REMOVAL OF A SOIL BANK LEVEE AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH LOWER ROCK ARMOUR AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED (2) PROVISION OF NEW ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS TO SITE TO INCLUDE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, PROPOSED NEW SECURITY FENCING AND ACCESS GATES (3) PROVISION OF STORM ATTENUATION SYSTEM (4) REPROFILING OF EXISTING SITE CONTOURS TOWARDS ADJACENT WATERCOURSE (5) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CARPARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152590

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  SOIL RECOVERY FACILITY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150111

• 19 Nov 2020N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF .33 ACRE EXTENSION TO THE AUTHORISED STORAGE DEPOT YARD (2) ERECTION OF FENCING TO THE PERIMETER OF THE UNAUTHORISED YARD EXTENSION (3) RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS WITHIN THE AUTHORISED YARD AND THE UNAUTHORISED EXTENSION OF THE YARD (4) REMOVAL OF A SOIL BANK LEVEE AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH LOWER ROCK ARMOUR (5) CONSTRUCTION OF A 22.5M LONG CONCRETE RETAINING WALL WITH A HEIGHT GREATER THAN 2M AND (6) CONSTRUCTION OF A SCAFFOLDING STORE AND PERMISSION FOR (A) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL STORAGE SHED (B) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED (C) PROVISION OF A NEW ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS TO SITE TO INCLUDE REALIGNMENT OF EXISTING ACCESS ROAD, PROPOSED NEW SECURITY FENCING AND ACCESS GATES (D) RAISING OF LEVELS OF EXTENDED STORAGE YARD BY APPROXIMATELY 550MM AND (E) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CARPARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051759

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 Drumbar.

Recorded monuments

• DG100-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 27.5m. The outline of a much damaged, circular enclosure survives. In the 1940s (Davies) the earthen banks survived in some places to a height of c. 2.5m. Stratified occupation layers were also observed then in modern drainage cuts. It is situated on the W edge of a small ridge on a drumlin surrounded by good land. It is located very close to site (DG100-003-). 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbar.

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 20 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1451 (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.

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

Name

Drumbar · Droim Bairr

Area

590,939 m² (59.09 ha, 146.02 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Brookfield, Drumgowan, Tully, Tullyloskan, Whitehill

Placenames

Drumbar 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.