Drumbarnet Upper
Drumbarnet Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Raymoghy, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droim Barrnocht Uachtair.
- Area
- 70.9 ha
- 175 acres
- Land parcels
- 22
- registered freehold, median 2,914 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbarnet Upper, from 1,323 m² to 304,663 m² (30.47 ha, 75.28 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 Upper 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
13 Apr 2026Conditional
TEMPORARY SINGLE STATIC MOBILE-HOME STRUCTURE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND OTHER EXISTING SITE SERVICES INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660629
13 Mar 2026Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, OTHER EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660416
15 Oct 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE OUTBUILDING, TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561809
15 Oct 2025Conditional
RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH INSTALLATION OF AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561808
12 Apr 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SUNROOM DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF SAID SUNROOM OF REVISED DESIGN, (3) ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING AND (4) RELEVANT ASSOCIATED REPLACEMENT WORKS WILL BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460504
22 Mar 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460375
11 Mar 2024N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460305
14 Feb 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460151
25 Apr 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE SYSTEM AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350548
10 Apr 2019Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 15/51700
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950501
12 Mar 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950321
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 Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbarnet Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumbarnet Upper.
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 Upper, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbarnet Upper.
- 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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumbarnet Upper · Droim Barrnocht Uachtair
- Area
- 708,712 m² (70.87 ha, 175.13 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
- Castleblaugh, Drumbarnet Middle, Dunduffsfort, Grawky, Hungersmother, Sallybrook, Veagh
- Placenames
- Drumbarnet Upper 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.