# Drumboe Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Stranorlar, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Bó Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 679,349 m² (67.93 ha, 167.87 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,898 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Stranorlar, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/stranorlar.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Stranorlar, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% 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/16543 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51016 - Centre: latitude 54.814924, longitude -7.78354 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboe Upper, from 86 m² to 104,272 m² (10.43 ha, 25.77 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1311043: 104,272 m² (10.43 ha, 25.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311043.md - Parcel 1393749: 103,115 m² (10.31 ha, 25.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393749.md - Parcel 1351558: 80,344 m² (8.03 ha, 19.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351558.md - Parcel 1351559: 67,382 m² (6.74 ha, 16.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351559.md - Parcel 1351552: 52,883 m² (5.29 ha, 13.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351552.md - Parcel 1311044: 50,336 m² (5.03 ha, 12.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311044.md - Parcel 1351567: 45,201 m² (4.52 ha, 11.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351567.md - Parcel 1351553: 38,971 m² (3.9 ha, 9.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351553.md - Parcel 1302684: 31,194 m² (3.12 ha, 7.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1302684.md - Parcel 1311046: 26,303 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311046.md - Parcel 1311054: 19,715 m² (1.97 ha, 4.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311054.md - Parcel 1311053: 17,030 m² (1.7 ha, 4.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311053.md - Parcel 1365853: 16,884 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365853.md - Parcel 1351557: 11,370 m² (1.14 ha, 2.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351557.md - Parcel 1311045: 9,898 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311045.md - Parcel 1331633: 4,570 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331633.md - Parcel 1351556: 3,247 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351556.md - Parcel 1337241: 3,111 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337241.md - Parcel 1408921: 2,993 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408921.md - Parcel 1335577: 2,913 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335577.md - Parcel 1373894: 2,888 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373894.md - Parcel 4972720: 2,775 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4972720.md - Parcel 1376565: 2,773 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376565.md - Parcel 3664647: 2,751 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664647.md - Parcel 1323420: 2,491 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323420.md - Parcel 1382444: 2,134 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382444.md - Parcel 1311042: 1,818 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311042.md - Parcel 1321441: 1,275 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321441.md - Parcel 1351568: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1351568.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumboe Upper 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 10 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561555: Conditional. Retention. (1) BEDROOM WITH EN-SUITE ROOM AND BAY-WINDOW BUILT TO THE SOUTH GABLE SIDE, (2) INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILT TO THE NORTH GABLE SIDE, (3) SUN ROOM BUILT TO THE EAST SIDE BEING THE FRONT ELEVATION, (4) SHOWER ROOM BUILT TO THE SOUTH SIDE BEING THE REAR ELEVATION AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561555/0 - 24 May 2021, Donegal County Council 2151006: Conditional. Retention. (1) CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE INTO USABLE FLOOR AREA (2) POLYTUNNEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151006/0 - 26 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050672: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050672/0 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 Drumboe Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumboe Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 40907834, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907834. Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, having canted windbreak porch to the south-west end of the front elevation (south-east), bed out-shot to the rear (north-west), single-bay two-bay byre\outbuilding attached to the north-east gable end with water trough projection, and with two single-storey outbuildings to the south-west. Section of rubble stone walling adjacent to porch. House now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised whitewashed rendered verges to the gable ends (rubble stone to the north-east gable end), some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two rendered chimneystacks (one to the north-west gable end and one to the centre. Formerly thatched. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and with eight-over-eight and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to front face of canted porch having plinth blocks and battened timber door. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed doorway with battened timber door, and with square-headed carriage-arch having corrugated-metal gate. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west gable end having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed carriage-arch with sliding corrugated-metal double gates; attached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the extreme south-west having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with yard to the front (south-east) and with later three-bay two-storey house adjacent to the south. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Stranorlar. Wrought-iron flat-bar gates to site. ## 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 Drumboe Upper, 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, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumboe Upper. - 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/drumboe-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumboe-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumboe-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumboe Upper 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) - Backlees: https://everytownland.com/donegal/backlees.md - Ballynaglack: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynaglack.md - Drumboe Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumboe-lower.md - Dunwiley: https://everytownland.com/donegal/dunwiley.md - Greenhills: https://everytownland.com/donegal/greenhills.md - Magherapaste: https://everytownland.com/donegal/magherapaste.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/drumboe-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumboe-upper