Drumduff

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumduff, from 14 m² to 107,598 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drumduff 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.

• 16 Mar 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF THE DWELLING ALONG WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660427

• 10 Mar 2026Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE ANCILLARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FOR THE PURPOSES OF STORING VEHICLES FOR PERSONAL USE, ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING SITE LEVELLING AND RETAINING WALL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660379

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  8-FOOT TIMBER FENCE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560931

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO DOMESTIC GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52050 AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A DOG GROOMING STUDIO TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461824

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN. REF. NO.: 18/51784 (2) ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152050

• 30 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151527

• 29 Jul 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF 18/51785 AND ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151503

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851784

• 21 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851785

• 9 May 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850726

• 9 May 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850724

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 Drumduff.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumduff.

Architectural heritage

• Inver Corn Mil, mill (water), 1810–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay three-storey former corn mill, built or extended c. 1860 and possibly containing the fabric of an earlier mill to site, built c. 1810. Two-storey extension/wing to the west. Now ruinous and out of use. Remains of large composite undershot waterwheel to the north gable end; flight of external stone sets adjacent to waterwheel. Ramp to the east elevation allowing access to doorway at upper floor level. Pitched natural slate roof, now collapsed, and having raised verges to gable ends. Coursed squared rubble stone and rubble stone construction with roughly dressed flush quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with stone sills and having remains of multi-pane cast-iron/metal windows. Wrought-iron security bars to a number ground floor window openings. Square-headed door openings with remains of timber battened doors. Composite metal waterwheel to north elevation with surviving timber paddles; internal corn-grinding mechanism now collapsed but surviving. Remains of rubble stone former corn kiln adjacent to the west. Set back from road in overgrown grounds to the west of Mountcharles and to the east of Inver Church of Ireland church. Former mill pond, now dry, to the east; linked to mill by headrace running from the east with remains of sluice. Tailrace to the west formerly discharging into a small stream/unnamed tributary of the Eany Water.

• The Creamery House, worker's house, 1910–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay two-storey former creamery manager’s house, built 1916, having single-storey extension with lean-to roof to the north elevation and enclosed single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the north end of the front elevation (west). Now in use as a private house with modern single-storey extension to the rear (east). Hipped natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and finials, rendered chimneystack having terracotta pots, and with some remaining sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to shallow projecting porch having replacement timber bargeboards with timber drop finial; slate roof to lean-to extension to the north. Random rubble stone walls, originally roughcast rendered, having roughly squared flush block-and-start quoins to the corners. Red brick sill course at ground floor level. Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds, ashlar sills and replacement six-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level and tripartite timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level. Square-headed door opening to front face of porch having red brick surround and replacement timber door. Set slightly back from road in own grounds with yard to front (west) and garden to the rear (east) and to the south. Located a short distance to the north of associated former creamery (see 40909229), and to the east of Inver.

• Inver Creamery, creamery, 1900–1925 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey double-pile former co-operative creamery with attic level, built c. 1903 and rebuilt or partially rebuilt c. 1921/2. Loading platform the south-west side elevation. Now out of use (since early 1970s). Pitched natural slate roofs with smooth rendered chimneystacks to southwest gable ends, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Iron skylights to roof, four to north-west facing pitches (two to each north-west pitch). Roughcast rendered finish over roughly squared rubble stone construction (exposed in places) and with roughly dressed flush quoins. Segmental- and square-headed window openings with fixed timber-casement windows and timber sliding sash windows, and with some dressed sandstone sills. Number of window openings now boarded. Square-headed vents to attic level at gable ends having timber louvered vents to openings. Square-headed door openings to gable ends with timber battened doors. Square-headed carriage-arch to south-west gable with timber battened double doors, accessed via loading ramp. Multi-pane overlight to one door opening to the southwest gable end. Flight of steps to northeast gable having iron swinging crane mechanism. Outline of former single-storey leant-to annex to north-west elevation, now demolished (c. 2006). Interior contains working intact buttery and mechanisms of creamery, c. 1930, including a large timber and metal churn. Set within own grounds with ruinous single-storey outbuilding to rear (east), having roughly squared rubble stone walls (roughcast rendered to side elevations), pitched roof (now collapsed), and square-headed door opening to northwest gable end. Low rubble stone boundary wall to frontage to west. Gateway to the south-west end of boundary wall comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having a wrought-iron flat bar gate. Millrace associated with former corn mill (40909201) located to west runs across the north side of the site. Located to the south of associated former creamery manager’s house (40909206), and to the west of Inver.

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 Drumduff, about 1 in 20 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 Drumduff.

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

Name

Drumduff · An Droim Dubh

Area

591,719 m² (59.17 ha, 146.22 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

387 people lived in 142 households in the Bonnyglen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cranny Lower, Drumatumpher, Drumbeagh, Mullanboys

Placenames

Drumduff 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.