Drumconor
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Chonchúir
- Area
- 180.8 ha
- 447 acres
- Land parcels
- 130
- registered freehold, median 2,704 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
130 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumconor, from 1 m² to 189,498 m² (18.95 ha, 46.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 37 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumconor 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
17 Jul 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AT DRUMCONOR, MOUNTCHARLES, CO. DONEGAL
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561226
16 Jul 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561207
17 Dec 2024Conditional
INCREASE OF FLOOR AREA OF THE EXISTING BUILDING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 99/1145 INCLUDING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND CONCRETE BASE TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING CAR SERVICING GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462098
14 Oct 2024N/a
CONCRETE BASE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING CAR SERVICING GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461618
4 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) EXTENSION OF CAR BREAKER YARD, (2) OPEN-FACED SHED / WORKSHOP, (3) STAFF CANTEEN AND TOILET WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461362
29 Nov 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO EXISTING STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING CHANGES TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251910
18 May 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A 2-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, ACCESS ROADWAY AND ENTRANCE TO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD (2) A DETACHED PITCHED ROOF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250865
18 Aug 2021Refused
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151649
18 Aug 2021Refused
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM,PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151648
24 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND INCREASING OF GROUND LEVELS AROUND THE PROPOSED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150516
23 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051580
9 Oct 2020N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051473
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumconor.
Recorded monuments
- DG093-019 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- DG093-020 Barrow - ring-barrow
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
- Inver Methodist Church, church/chapel, 1870–1910 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay double-height gable-fronted Methodist chapel/meeting house, built c. 1880 , having gable-fronted bellcote over entrance gable (north-east). Modern extension to the rear (south-west). Pitched artificial slate roof . Cut stone finial over north gable end. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Pointed-arched window openings having leaded windows. Central pointed-arched window opening to the centre of the entrance gable (north-east) having timber double-doors and leaded overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Inver and the west of Mountcharles. Tarmacadam forecourt. Rendered walls to rear and side boundaries of site; open to front elevation. Mildly rock-faced ashlar gate piers (on square-plan) having cut stone saddleback coping over to road-frontage of boundary walls to sides of site.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumconor.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumconor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumconor · Droim Chonchúir
- Area
- 1,807,904 m² (180.79 ha, 446.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Tantallon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumbeagh, Drumcoe, Drumgorman, Drumgorman Barr, Gortaward, Mountcharles, Mullanboys
- Placenames
- Drumconor 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.