Drumbristan Glebe

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumbristan Glebe, from 56 m² to 95,868 m² (9.59 ha, 23.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Drumbristan Glebe 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.

• 13 Apr 2026Conditional

  RENEWAL AND UPGRADE OF THE WASTEWATER SYSTEM SERVING AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660624

• 20 Mar 2026Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOME OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2650047

• 6 Oct 2021Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO DOMESTIC GARAGE (GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 98/218 REFERS) CONSISTING OF (1) THE ADDITION OF A KITCHENETTE AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL (2) WORK STUDIO WITH PRIVATE OFFICE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (3) ALTERATIONS TO EXTERNAL FENESTRATIONS, ALL FOR PRIVATE USE AND INCIDENTAL TO THE ENJOYMENT OF PRIVATE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151980

• 4 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOME OFFICE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051859

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY GARDEN ROOM EXTENSION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051054

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC 000133
• Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) 000133

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumbristan Glebe.

Architectural heritage

• Murvagh House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former Church of Ireland rectory on L-shaped plan, built c. 1792 and altered c. 1820 and c. 1880, having two-storey with dormer attic level block to the south, single-bay single-storey extension attached to the north end having two-storey extension attached to the north end, and with two-storey canted projection to the west elevation, added c. 1880. Now in use as a private house with two-storey flat-roofed return to the rear, added c. 1950. Hipped natural slate roof with ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having terracotta pots over; single-bay extension to the north end of the entrance block (east) having pitched natural slate roof with raised cut stone coping and rendered chimneystack to the north gable end. Hipped natural slate roof to return to the south having overhanging eaves with paired brackets; hipped natural slate roof to canted projection with paired brackets at eaves level. Square-headed dormer openings to the rear pitch of main block (west); cast-iron rooflights in places. Roughcast rendered walling, now largely obscured by vegetation. Roughcast rendered finish to canted projection at ground floor level with smooth rendered finish over at first floor level, separated by moulded stringcourse. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined finish to rear elevation of extensions. Square-headed window openings to east elevation having tooled stone sills and with six-over-six and six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed window openings to the south elevation having tooled stone sills, and with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and with central round-headed blind niche to ground floor level flanked to either side by Tripartite/Wyatt-style timber sliding sash windows. Wrought-iron security bars to a number of openings at basement level; two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to canted projection to the west. Round-headed door opening to the east elevation having timber panelled door with metal door furniture, fanlight over having intersecting tracery, and having square-headed sidelights having four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows. Flight of cut stone steps over basement level giving access to door flanked to either side by rendered plinth walls having coping over. Set well back from road in mature landscaped grounds to the south of Donegal Town, and adjacent to the south of the shores of Donegal Bay. Ballintra River to the west of site. Gateway and gate lodge (see 40909922) to the south-east and complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings to the rear (see 40909920). Remains of former walled garden to the north-east. Gateway to the rear of house comprising a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having a pair of wrought-iron flat bar gates. Remains of former walled garden to the north-east.

• Murvagh House, school, 1810–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level gate lodge and former schoolhouse associated with Murvagh House (see 40909921), built c. 1820 and altered c. 1870, having continuous open veranda to the main elevation (west) supported on four decorative timber columns set on moulded stone pedestals. Now in use as a private house with modern single-storey extension to the rear (east). Pitched natural slate roof having terracotta ridge cresting, and with central red brick chimneystack with stepped coping and crowned terracotta chimneypots over. Some surviving cast-iron rainwater goods including decorative cast-iron hopper to the north gable. Mono-pitched natural slate roof over veranda; flagstones to veranda area. Squared and randomly coursed sandstone rubble walls, formerly roughcast rendered. Two tripartite/triple pointed-arch window openings to front elevation (west), one to either side of central doorway, each having continuous ashlar sandstone lintels, cut stone sills, and timber casement windows with intersecting tracery to heads. Central tripartite/triple pointed-arch doorway to the main elevation having continuous ashlar sandstone lintel over with pointed-arch overlights, and with timber panelled door. Set back from road adjacent to the north-east of the main entrance to Murvagh House comprising a pair of squared rubble stone gate piers with capstones over, and flanked to either side by sections of rubble stone walling. Located in mature landscaped and wooded grounds to the south-east of main building at start of long approach avenue to house. Sited adjacent to east of the Ballintra River and to the south of Donegal Town. Shores of Donegal Bay a short distance to the north.

• Murvagh Bridge, bridge, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1790, having V-profile cutwaters to central piers. Service pipe attached to the south elevation. Central segmental-headed arch having cement render over dressed stone voussoirs; cement rendered finish to arch barrels. Segmental-headed/pointed segmental-headed arches to the either end (east) and west) having cement rendered finish over. Rubble stone construction to spandrels, abutments and to parapets; now generally with cement rendered finish over. Roughly dressed stone coping over parapets. Tarmacadam deck with vegetation to verges. Located to the north-west of Ballintra and the south of Donegal Town, a short distance to the south of where the Ballintra River discharges into Donegal Bay. Entrance to Murvagh House (see 40909921) adjacent to the east end of bridge.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

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

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumbristan Glebe.

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 Drumbristan Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumbristan Glebe · Gléib Dhroim Bristean

Area

409,996 m² (41 ha, 101.31 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumchory Glebe, Mullanasole, Murvagh Upper Glebe, Rathtinny Glebe

Placenames

Drumbristan Glebe 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.