Drumbarnet Lower

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbarnet Lower, from 604 m² to 230,626 m² (23.06 ha, 56.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumbarnet Lower 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.

• 19 May 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION AND CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF AN AGRICULTURAL BIOGAS RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITY, CONSISTING OF: (1) 3 NO. PRIMARY DIGESTER TANKS, (2) 2 NO. POST DIGESTER TANKS WITH PUMPROOM, (3) PASTEURISATION UNIT WITH AUXILIARY TANKS, (4) EMERGENCY FLARE WITH BASE AND SECURITY FENCING, (5) 3 NO. AGRICULTURAL SOLID FEEDERS WITH ASSOCIATED CONCRETE BASES, (6) 2 NO. UNDERGROUND PRE-RECEPTION TANKS, (7) 2 NO. COVERED AGRICULTURAL DIGESTATE STORAGE TANKS, (8) GAS COMBINED HEAT & POWER (CHP) UNIT WITH CONCRETE BASE, (9) SITE OFFICE/CONTROL BUILDING WITH ASSOCIATED STAFF CAR PARKING AREA AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATING AREA, (10) BIOGAS UPGRADING TREATMENT AND COMPRESSION SYSTEM, (11) ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER AND SUB-STATION WITH SECURITY FENCE, (12) COVERED AGRICULTURAL STORAGE CLAMP, (13) NUTRIENT RECOVERY SYSTEM FACILITY WITH ANCILLARY TANKS AND EQUIPMENT, (14) 4 NO. AMMONIUM SULPHATE SOLUTION (ASS) STORAGE TANKS WITH CONCRETE BASES, (15) DIGESTATE DRYING AND PELLETISING FACILITY, (16) PELLET STORAGE FACILITY, (17) WEIGHBRIDGE, (18) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ACCESS AND ENTRANCE IMPROVEMENT WORKS, (19) SITE LIGHTING WITH SECURITY CAMERAS, (20) SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE SYSTEM WITH STORAGE POND AND DISCHARGE SYSTEM, (21) BOUNDARY EARTH BUNDED AREAS, LANDSCAPING, AND BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCING AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350686

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 Drumbarnet Lower.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbarnet Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Drumbarnet, house, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built 1911, on a rectangular plan with double-gabled front with two-storey canted bay window to west end, and a smaller gable within gable end to east with a single-storey bow window, fronting an earlier hipped-roofed house dating from c. 1840 and a flat-roofed return to north built c. 1900. Pitched slate roofs to front with timber bargeboards to gables and fascia boards to eaves, red clayware ridge tiles and four red brick chimneystacks along ridge line with terracotta stringcourses and smooth rendered top sections and copings with polygonal yellow clay pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped slate roof with gable end to earlier structure with painted brackets to eaves, grey clayware ridge tiles and two smooth rendered chimneystacks along ridge line and another chimneystack to gable end with polygonal yellow clay pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Timber framed gables with smooth rendered insets, red brick English bond walls with a terracotta stringcourse, a smooth render to canted bay, all on a stepped smooth rendered plinth; roughcast render to original house. Segmental-headed window openings with mullioned and transomed timber casement windows, brick reveals and smooth rendered corniced sills; square-headed openings with one-over-one horned timber sash windows with brick reveals; one-over-one horned timber sashes to canted bay with smooth rendered reveals; square-headed window openings with casement windows with smooth rendered reveals to first floor; square-headed openings with mullioned and transomed timber casement window to first floor east elevation; square-headed window openings to original house and annexes with six-over-three, six-over-six and eight-over-eight hornless and six-over-six, two-over-two and one-over-one horned sash windows with smooth rendered reveals and stone sills, terracotta sill course to upper east windows. An aediculated stucco doorcase with plain pilasters and a shaped pediment topped by a finial containing a round-headed door opening with decorative keystone, containing inner stucco mouldings, with a glazed fanlight over replacement timber door. Set within own grounds with rectangular yard to north. Outbuilding to the west of the yard consists of a multi-bay single-storey structure with slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, random rubble walls containing square-headed and segmental-headed door and window openings; two-storey structure with slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods and random rubble walls containing square-headed door openings to the upper floor and a square-headed entrance to gable end forms range to north of yard.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumbarnet Lower, 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 moderately high, low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1865 (ZIP).

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.

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

Name

Drumbarnet Lower · Droim Barrnocht Íochtair

Area

315,596 m² (31.56 ha, 77.99 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,028 people lived in 372 households in the Newtown Cunningham electoral division. 66% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumbarnet Middle, Maylin, Moneymore, Sharon Glebe

Placenames

Drumbarnet Lower 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.