# Drumduff, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish An Droim Dubh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 591,719 m² (59.17 ha, 146.22 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Inver, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/inver.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Bonnyglen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13948 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51038 - Centre: latitude 54.656137, longitude -8.257189 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumduff, from 14 m² to 107,598 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1314978: 107,598 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314978.md - Parcel 1522855: 61,287 m² (6.13 ha, 15.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522855.md - Parcel 1388733: 58,209 m² (5.82 ha, 14.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388733.md - Parcel 1300697: 45,858 m² (4.59 ha, 11.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300697.md - Parcel 1301343: 44,767 m² (4.48 ha, 11.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301343.md - Parcel 1305258: 40,243 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305258.md - Parcel 5128893: 37,478 m² (3.75 ha, 9.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5128893.md - Parcel 1336471: 23,802 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336471.md - Parcel 1405395: 19,494 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405395.md - Parcel 1321339: 19,137 m² (1.91 ha, 4.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321339.md - Parcel 1369885: 12,764 m² (1.28 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369885.md - Parcel 1329599: 12,052 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329599.md - Parcel 1323344: 9,927 m² (0.99 ha, 2.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323344.md - Parcel 4787012: 7,642 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4787012.md - Parcel 5000586: 7,128 m² (0.71 ha, 1.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000586.md - Parcel 5169257: 6,093 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169257.md - Parcel 1393627: 5,781 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393627.md - Parcel 1402035: 5,714 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402035.md - Parcel 1366131: 5,276 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366131.md - Parcel 5159557: 4,841 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5159557.md - Parcel 5755196: 4,487 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5755196.md - Parcel 5099540: 4,318 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099540.md - Parcel 1338462: 4,308 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338462.md - Parcel 4805454: 3,766 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4805454.md - Parcel 5099082: 3,265 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099082.md - Parcel 1328662: 3,009 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328662.md - Parcel 1369111: 2,798 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369111.md - Parcel 4749594: 2,622 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4749594.md - Parcel 1331383: 2,604 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331383.md - Parcel 1399324: 2,602 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399324.md - Parcel 1366130: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366130.md - Parcel 1325390: 2,146 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325390.md - Parcel 1398077: 2,113 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398077.md - Parcel 3660875: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660875.md - Parcel 5000583: 1,991 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000583.md - Parcel 1389490: 1,838 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389490.md - Parcel 5099541: 1,787 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5099541.md - Parcel 1333868: 1,556 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333868.md - Parcel 5697301: 1,322 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5697301.md - Parcel 1366444: 1,161 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366444.md - Parcel 1421623: 703 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421623.md - Parcel 1324039: 604 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324039.md - Parcel 3660876: 603 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660876.md - Parcel 1399924: 521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399924.md - Parcel 1522854: 504 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1522854.md - Parcel 1416951: 496 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1416951.md - Parcel 5000582: 306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000582.md - Parcel 1426538: 279 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426538.md - Parcel 5973869: 120 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5973869.md - Parcel 1410530: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410530.md - Parcel 5000562: 96 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000562.md - Parcel 5564018: 85 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5564018.md - Parcel 1373827: 81 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373827.md - Parcel 1411301: 81 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411301.md - Parcel 1408858: 73 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1408858.md - Parcel 1412748: 59 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412748.md - Parcel 5000564: 14 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5000564.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 16 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660427: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF A NEW EXTENSION AT THE REAR OF THE DWELLING ALONG WITH ALTERATIONS TO THE EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS OF THE DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660427/0 - 10 Mar 2026, Donegal County Council 2660379: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660379/0 - 5 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560931: Conditional. Retention. 8-FOOT TIMBER FENCE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560931/0 - 13 Nov 2024, Donegal County Council 2461824: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461824/0 - 15 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152050: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152050/0 - 30 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151527: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHERN SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151527/0 - 29 Jul 2021, Donegal County Council 2151503: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151503/0 - 21 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851784: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851784/0 - 21 Nov 2018, Donegal County Council 1851785: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851785/0 - 9 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850726: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850726/0 - 9 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850724: Refused. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850724/0 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 Drumduff. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumduff. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Inver Corn Mil, mill (water), 1810–1870, Regional interest, registry number 40909201, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909201. 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, registry number 40909206, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909206. 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, registry number 40909229, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909229. 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. ## 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 Drumduff, 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. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumduff. - 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/drumduff.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumduff.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumduff.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumduff 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) - Cranny Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cranny-lower.md - Drumatumpher: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumatumpher.md - Drumbeagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumbeagh-51011.md - Mullanboys: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullanboys.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/drumduff - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumduff