Drumfad Lower

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfad Lower, from 776 m² to 348,331 m² (34.83 ha, 86.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Lower 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.

• 3 Sept 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A SLATTED-FLOOR AGRICULTURAL SHED COMPLETE WITH CUBICLES AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK, (2) A MILKING PARLOUR SHED AND DAIRY WITH SLATTED HOLDING AREA AND UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461357

• 11 Nov 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051710

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 Lower.

Recorded monuments

• DG018-017 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture on a roughly N−S ridge which provides good views in all directions, including distant views of Trusk More, Dargan Hill and Murreen Hill. This stone was recorded by Lacey et al (1983, 80, no. 402) as follows: ‘A standing stone 2m high × 1.4m wide at base × 0.3m maximum thickness; WNW-ESE. It is prominently sited on a high, level plateau overlooking lower ground to W.’ The standing stone collapsed, probably during a storm in December 1998. A rescue excavation (00E0755) was carried out in October 2000 on behalf of the NMS in advance of the re-erection of the stone. The total length of the stone is 2.58m. The excavation uncovered the original pit (1.65m E−W; 0.95m N−S; D 0.15-0.25m) dug to receive the stone. The pit was subrectangular in plan, with rounded corners and a flat base, and had packing stones on all sides except at W. A flint scraper was recovered from the interface between topsoil and redeposited subsoil, but could not be ascribed to a secure context. (Crumlish 2002, no. 174) Attached image: DG018-017----_01.JPG viewed from SE Attached image: DG018-017----_02.JPG viewed from E Attached image: DG018-017----_03.JPG viewed from NE Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 September 2017

• DG018-042 Platform
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a broad low hill, overlooked to N by a higher hill and at SE–S by Knockalla Mountain, which spans the E–W width of the Fanad Peninsula. To N–NE there are distant views of Lough Swilly with the uplands of the Inishowen peninsula beyond. There is a gentle fall of ground immediately to NE of the platform. A bye-road borders the S side of the field. This monument is not indicated on any edition of the OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a low, roughly equal-sided triangular platform (side L 10-12m) defined by a relatively vertical-sided stone-faced scarp (H 0.3-0.5m). The scarp is lowest on the W side (H 0.3m), and somewhat higher on the E and S sides (H 0.4-0.5m), where there is a natural all of ground. The stone facing is most clearly visible on the W side where it appears to consist of a close-set row of medium to large-sized stones, one stone high. Some of the larger stones/boulders may be field clearance stones pushed against the platform. The platform appears to be of earthen construction; the flat-top is grass-covered. A partly sod-covered concentration of stones is located on top of the platform at its SW corner, and a scatter of loose stones rests on the central area of the platform. Small blackthorn scrub grow along the scarp on the S half of the E side. The nature of this platform is uncertain. The field is known locally as the ‘Fort field’; one local tradition is that it was used as ‘a look-out point’. Attached images: DG018-042----_01.JPG viewed from W DG018-042----_02.JPG stone-facing on W side DG018-042----_03.JPG viewed from SE DG018-042----_04.JPG viewed from SW Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 June 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumfad Lower

Area

706,240 m² (70.62 ha, 174.52 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Carrowkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowkeel electoral division: 881 people in 325 households; 76% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycallan, Ballynashannagh, Carlan Lower, Carran Upper and Lower, Drumfad, Drumfad Upper, Knockbrack

Placenames

Drumfad Lower 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.