Drumcavany

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcavany, from 71 m² to 225,941 m² (22.59 ha, 55.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumcavany 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.

• 27 Nov 2025Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550168

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  EXISTING DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151268

• 11 Jun 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151154

• 5 Mar 2021N/a

  DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150397

• 27 Nov 2020N/a

  DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051803

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050438

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951981

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leannan Valley Woods 001155

Recorded monuments

• DG052-005 Bullaun stone
  Description

  A 2m long ledge of rock outcrop containing two depressions c. 0.33m in diameter x .1m deep. 'They are known locally as St. Columbkille's footprints. 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

• DG052-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  No trace of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is visible. It was sited on top of a low hill in good 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

• Bridge, 1900–1905 · Regional interest
  Description

  Group of three railway bridges, built c.1903, carrying former Letterkenny to Burtonport line over road, Leannan River and right-of-way. Bridge over mill race has rusticated stone voussoirs with drafted margins to segmental arch with gunnelled soffit, and rusticated parapets with rendered copings. Bridge over river has rusticated voussoirs to two segmental arches, rusticated abutments and overgrown parapets. Bridge over road has rusticated and drafted voussoirs to segmental arch, with rusticated squared and snecked abutments with rendered copings to overgrown parapets. Barrack Bridge to southeast.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumcavany, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Drumcavany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumcavany

Area

1,114,860 m² (111.49 ha, 275.49 acres)

Civil parish

Conwal, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Templedouglas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,089 people lived in 352 households in the Templedouglas electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybolauder, Cabra Brook, Carrick, Keeloges, Roshin, Sockar, Treanbeg

Placenames

Drumcavany 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.