# Drumearn, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Taughboyne, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 473,445 m² (47.34 ha, 116.99 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,785 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Taughboyne, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/taughboyne.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: St. Johnstown, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16515 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51040 - Centre: latitude 54.894552, longitude -7.472353 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumearn, from 308 m² to 237,739 m² (23.77 ha, 58.75 acres); 8 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331730: 237,739 m² (23.77 ha, 58.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331730.md - Parcel 1393874: 223,973 m² (22.4 ha, 55.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393874.md - Parcel 5026156: 4,201 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5026156.md - Parcel 3659195: 2,785 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659195.md - Parcel 3659196: 2,726 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3659196.md - Parcel 1339972: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339972.md - Parcel 1346880: 308 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346880.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumearn 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) 9 applications, newest first. - 17 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2661120: Conditional. Permission. (1) RETENTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ONTO PROPERTY WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661120/0 - 26 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560651: Conditional. Retention. EXTENSION CONSTRUCTED TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560651/0 - 23 Feb 2025, Donegal County Council 2560236: N/a. Retention. EXTENSION CONSTRUCTED TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560236/0 - 14 Jul 2020, Donegal County Council 2050927: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF SHED FOR REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE OF FARM EQUIPMENT RELATING TO FAMILY FARM AND ROADSIDE RETAINING WALL APPROX. 1.80M HIGH. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050927/0 - 8 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951714: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A TWO STOREY GARAGE FOR THE STORAGE OF EQUIPMENT RELATING TO THE FAMILY DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951714/0 - 15 Oct 2019, Donegal County Council 1951565: N/a. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A TWO STOREY GARAGE FOR THE STORAGE OF EQUIPMENT RELATING TO THE FAMILY DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951565/0 - 3 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951030: N/a. Retention. COMPLETION OF SHED FOR THE REPAIR , MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE OF FARMING EQUIPMENT RELATING TO FAMILY FARM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951030/0 - 21 Jun 2019, Donegal County Council 1950964: N/a. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF SHED FOR THE REPAIR , MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE OF FARMING EQUIPMENT RELATING TO FAMILY FARM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950964/0 - 17 Apr 2019, Donegal County Council 1950545: N/a. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF SHED FOR THE REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND STORAGE OF FARMING EQUIPMENT RELATING TO FAMILY FARM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950545/0 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 Drumearn. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumearn. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumearn. ## 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 Drumearn, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumearn. - 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/drumearn.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumearn.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumearn.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumearn 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) - Carrickmore: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrickmore.md - Cuttymanhill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cuttymanhill.md - Ratteen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ratteen.md - Swilly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/swilly.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/drumearn - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumearn