# Drumbarnet Lower, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Barrnocht Íochtair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 315,596 m² (31.56 ha, 77.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 41,991 m² (4.2 ha, 10.38 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymoghy, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymoghy.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Newtown Cunningham, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15354 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51006 - Centre: latitude 54.979578, longitude -7.562651 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbarnet Lower, from 604 m² to 230,626 m² (23.06 ha, 56.99 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1346823: 230,626 m² (23.06 ha, 56.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346823.md - Parcel 1395454: 81,861 m² (8.19 ha, 20.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395454.md - Parcel 1393908: 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393908.md - Parcel 1321612: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321612.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 19 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350686: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350686/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbarnet Lower. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbarnet Lower. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Drumbarnet, house, 1905–1915, Regional interest, registry number 40905416, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905416. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1865.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-lower.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-lower.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-lower.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Drumbarnet Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-middle.md - Maylin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/maylin.md - Moneymore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moneymore-52071.md - Sharon Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/sharon-glebe.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbarnet-lower - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumbarnet-lower