Drumboy

226 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboy, from 2 m² to 138,609 m² (13.86 ha, 34.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumboy 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.

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES INCLUDING CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE INTO ADDITIONAL LIVING ACCOMMODATION, CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561904

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) REAR EXTENSION TO DINING ROOM OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560401

• 5 Jul 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND SHEDS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER, PUBLIC STORMWATER AND PUBLIC WATERMAINS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461031

• 17 Nov 2023Conditional

  EXISTING DWELLING AND GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING DUE TO MICA, ALONG WITH ADDITIONAL NEW BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351755

• 30 Aug 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351288

• 19 May 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150950

• 7 Feb 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050141

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED, (2) ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW PREFABRICATED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950834

• 24 May 2019N/a

  EXISTING STORAGE SHED AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (1) ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW PREFABRICATED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950763

• 20 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950694

• 15 May 2017Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING EXTENDING TO INTERNAL RECONFIGURATION TO PROVIDE FOR INTEGRATED GARAGE AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES. (2) TWO 2 STOREY EXTENSIONS TO FRONT AND SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING. (3) DECOMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750728

• 18 Apr 2017N/a

  ALTERATIONS & EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750569

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 Drumboy.

Recorded monuments

• DG071-003001 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on rough, wet, low-lying land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG071-003002 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the standing stone shown untitled on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on rough, wet land in the flood plain of the River Foyle. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG071-004 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map and shown untitled on the 2nd edition. Situated on rough wet pasture land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• Drumboy House, house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having two-storey canted bay to the west side of the front elevation (south), single-storey canted bay to the east side of the front elevation, central doorway with open porch, two-storey canted bay window to the east elevation, two-storey split level return to north-west and single-storey rear entrance porch to north, and with attached orangery or green house to west. Hipped artificial slate with moulded stucco eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and a central pair of stepped smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and decorative clay-ware pots over. Hipped artificial slate roof to two-storey canted bays, and flat roof to single-storey canted bay to south-east having moulded stucco eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and with decorative cast-iron railing over to parapet. Mono-pitched artificial slate roof to porch supported on timber or cast-iron posts. Pitched purple slate roof to north extensions with terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered raised plinth course, stringcourse and sill course at first floor having decorative smooth rendered panelling between, and with raised smooth dressed quoins to corners. Smooth rendered walls to canted bays with sill course, and roughcast rendered walls to north extensions. Square-headed openings with rendered architraved surrounds having keystone motif over, stone sills, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired square-headed window openings over canted bay to south-east. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation having half-glazed metal and timber double-leaf doors with margin glazing bars, flanking multi-pane sidelights over timber stallrisers with bolection mouldings, and doorcase comprising fluted pilasters with architraved head having keystone motif over. Tiled threshold to open porch. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-west of the centre of Lifford. Detached seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north (on L-shaped plan) having hipped natural slate roof with red brick eaves course and cast-iron rooflight, rubble stone walls with flush red brick block-and-start quoins to corners, square-headed and round window openings with red brick surrounds and cast-iron windows, and square-headed door openings with red brick surrounds. Approached from south-west via approach avenue. Main gateway to the south-west comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having metal gates.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1959 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Drumboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumboy

Area

744,867 m² (74.49 ha, 184.06 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh South electoral division: 2,156 people in 853 households; 64% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Edenmore, Lifford Bog, Lifford Common, Rossgeir, Roughan

Placenames

Drumboy 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.