Drumdutton

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumdutton, from 16 m² to 1,017,716 m² (101.77 ha, 251.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumdutton 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 Sept 2019Refused

  INSTALLATION OF TWO NUMBER LIVESTOCK GRIDS WITH PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO BE CONSTRUCTED ON COUNTY ROAD L-12221

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951402

• 22 Feb 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850263

• 5 Feb 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING. DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND RETENTION PERMISSION FOR EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850143

• 2 Aug 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED & SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751230

• 10 Mar 2017N/a

  1. EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING 2. PERMISSION FOR NEW SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750374

• 4 Jan 2017N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING EXTENSION TO DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750008

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 Drumdutton.

Recorded monuments

• DG026-019001 Church
  Description

  Drumdutton Church: Capt. Thomas Dutton, who erected a house and village here in the first quarter of the 17th century was probably also responsible for the building of this church. The walls of the church c. 15.8m by 3.9m internally are represented, for the most part, by grass-covered lower courses; the SE corner survives to a height of c. 1m and the lower section of the W gable has been incorporated in a field wall. The W 3.5m of the church had been closed off by a cross-wall; only the lower courses remain. Some moulded window and chamfered wall-press fragments lie among the fallen rubble masonry at the E end of the church; the former indicate a window of 17th century form and character. Other moulded fragments have been incorporated in the fabric of nearby farm outbuildings. Earlier accounts (Fagan Bk. 2, 7-8; Davies, Notes, 1940; Colhoun, Notes, 1944) describe the church as being of rubble construction with small ashlar quoins, having a blocked-up rectangular E window of three lights, a wall-press with chamfered surround at the E end of the S wall and the E ingoing of a doorway beside it on the W. 13.45m N of the NE corner of the church is an almost square block of granite (DG026-019004-) c. 0.45m x .5m. A depression .32m in diameter and 0.2m deep is carved on the top of the block. The burial ground (DG026-019002-) shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is not now visible. 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

• DG026-019002 Graveyard
  Description

  Drumdutton Church: Capt. Thomas Dutton, who erected a house and village here in the first quarter of the 17th century was probably also responsible for the building of this church (DG026-019001-). The burial ground (DG026-019002-) shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is not now visible. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010

• DG026-019003 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  Drumdutton Castle (site of): In 1622, Capt Thomas Dutton who had purchased 500 acres from Sir Ralph Bingley had built a house and established a village here (Treadwell 1953-5, 43). The Civil Survey 1654-6 records that it was a 'large dwelling house of stone called Drim, built in a manner of strength, which was burnt in the late war' which followed on the 1641 rebellion (Simmington 1937, 107). It is marked as 'Old Castle' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map to the N of the church (1879). In 1845, Fagan noted that a small section was then incorporated in a flax kiln 'a few yards south (recte N?) of the old church' (Bk. 2, 9-10). No visible trace of this survives. There is a small shed to the E of the church built against a stretch of wall, c. 4m long by 1.9m high, built of large irregular blocks. This wall may have formed part of the house or its associate out-buildings. 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

• DG026-019004 Stone sculpture
  Description

  Drumdutton Church: Capt. Thomas Dutton, who erected a house and village here in the first quarter of the 17th century was probably also responsible for the building of this church (DG026-019001-). 13.45m N of the NE corner of the church is an almost square block of granite (DG026-019004-) c. 0.45m x .5m. A depression .32m in diameter and 0.2m deep is carved on the top of the block. The burial ground (DG026-019002-) shown on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is not now visible. 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

• DG026-026 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Marked as a 'Children's Burial Ground' on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site consists of an oval enclosure c. 8m N-S and c. 4m E-W surrounded by a collapsed and overgrown drystone wall. It is situated on the S side of a large mound of rock outcrop in grazing 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumdutton.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Drumdutton · Droim

Area

1,833,228 m² (183.32 ha, 453 acres)

Civil parish

Mevagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Glen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glen electoral division: 262 people in 108 households; 83% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 48% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghadachor, Drumlackagh, Glenmenagh, Glenree, Kill

Placenames

Drumdutton 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.