Drumenan
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Meannáin
- Area
- 409.2 ha
- 1,011 acres
- Land parcels
- 111
- registered freehold, median 4,319 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
111 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumenan, from 11 m² to 910,532 m² (91.05 ha, 225 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Drumenan 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
15 Oct 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BUS MAINTENANCE GARAGE AND ERECTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT BUS MAINTENANCE GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561804
1 Aug 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION WITHIN ROOF SPACE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561329
18 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461473
11 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461409
20 Feb 2024Conditional
(1) REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLING SUB-FLOOR, AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460170
30 Mar 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350417
22 Dec 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252087
12 Jan 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250017
7 Apr 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A NEW SPLIT LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150600
24 May 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL DRY STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050523
24 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED, INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050652
16 Aug 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851266
6 Apr 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850506
29 Mar 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850459
3 Apr 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE & SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750487
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 Drumenan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumenan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumenan.
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 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 Drumenan.
- 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 Drumenan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumenan · Droim Meannáin
- Area
- 4,092,255 m² (409.23 ha, 1,011.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Killymasny, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killymasny electoral division: 512 people in 166 households; 93% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygallan, Barrack or Ballymagig, Cark, Crossogs, Killymasny, Kilpheak, Seacor
- Placenames
- Drumenan 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.