Drumfad

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfad, from 833 m² to 216,418 m² (21.64 ha, 53.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Drumfad 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.

• 27 Jan 2020Conditional

  DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050062

• 18 Nov 2019N/a

  DECOMMISIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PROVIDE A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND FOR RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND STORE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951762

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 Drumfad.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumfad.

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1895 (ZIP).

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

Name

Drumfad

Area

659,484 m² (65.95 ha, 162.96 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Feddyglass electoral division: 456 people in 164 households; 89% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Broadlea, Carnshannagh, Coolaghy, Dromore Little, Drumbeg, Feddyglass, Tullyrap

Placenames

Drumfad 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.