# Drumchrin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 603,372 m² (60.34 ha, 149.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,636 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Templecarn, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/templecarn.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Pettigoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 368 people lived in 170 households in the Pettigoe electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14190 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51028 - Centre: latitude 54.564498, longitude -7.833549 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumchrin, from 255 m² to 168,374 m² (16.84 ha, 41.61 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1391719: 168,374 m² (16.84 ha, 41.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391719.md - Parcel 1340219: 145,082 m² (14.51 ha, 35.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340219.md - Parcel 1347193: 132,763 m² (13.28 ha, 32.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347193.md - Parcel 1393487: 49,277 m² (4.93 ha, 12.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393487.md - Parcel 1327326: 26,487 m² (2.65 ha, 6.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327326.md - Parcel 1362182: 26,265 m² (2.63 ha, 6.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362182.md - Parcel 1305108: 21,885 m² (2.19 ha, 5.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305108.md - Parcel 1419477: 12,654 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419477.md - Parcel 1366985: 12,220 m² (1.22 ha, 3.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366985.md - Parcel 1353133: 10,636 m² (1.06 ha, 2.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353133.md - Parcel 6119382: 6,742 m² (0.67 ha, 1.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6119382.md - Parcel 1400197: 5,092 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400197.md - Parcel 1400196: 5,073 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400196.md - Parcel 1426377: 3,181 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426377.md - Parcel 4785424: 2,994 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785424.md - Parcel 1424326: 2,227 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424326.md - Parcel 1368964: 1,980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1368964.md - Parcel 1400198: 880 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400198.md - Parcel 4785450: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4785450.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumchrin 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) 4 applications, newest first. - 25 Jan 2026, Donegal County Council 2660079: Conditional. Permission. RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660079/0 - 16 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560791: Conditional. Retention. (1) REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING LEAN TO STRUCTURE, (2) ADDITIONAL YARD/SET DOWN AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING STABLE BLOCK TO ENCLOSED CATTLE HANDLING FACILITIES AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO INCLUDE PORTAL FRAMED BUILDING, STAND ALONE ROOFED MIDDEN AND COLLECTION TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560791/0 - 4 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251653: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SECONDARY AND TERTIARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER 20/50219. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251653/0 - 26 Feb 2020, Donegal County Council 2050219: Conditional. Retention. (1) EXISTING SAND ARENA TO SERVE EXISTING STABLE (2) ENTRANCE ONTO PUBLIC ROAD AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A TOILET FACILITY WITHIN EXISTING HORSE STABLE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERITIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050219/0 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 Drumchrin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumchrin. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumchrin. ## 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 Drumchrin, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumchrin. - 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/drumchrin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumchrin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumchrin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumchrin 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) - Aghalough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghalough.md - Bircog: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bircog.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carn-50434.md - Croagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/croagh-50791.md - Drumnaskea: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnaskea-51133.md - Gortinessy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortinessy.md - Tullycarn: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullycarn.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/drumchrin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumchrin