Drumbarnet Middle
Drumbarnet Middle is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droim Barrnocht Láir.
- Area
- 66.3 ha
- 164 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,445 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbarnet Middle, from 213 m² to 235,676 m² (23.57 ha, 58.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumbarnet Middle 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
30 Apr 2025Conditional
DRY AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DRY STORAGE SHED AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CUBICLE SHED AND (B) BOUNDARY RETAINING WALL, AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560677
25 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151023
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumbarnet Middle.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbarnet Middle.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbarnet Middle.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumbarnet Middle, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbarnet Middle.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumbarnet Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumbarnet Middle · Droim Barrnocht Láir
- Area
- 663,013 m² (66.3 ha, 163.83 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 Lower, Drumbarnet Upper, Hungersmother, Maylin, Sharon Glebe, Veagh
- Placenames
- Drumbarnet Middle 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.