# Drumfergus, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donaghmore, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 618,361 m² (61.84 ha, 152.8 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donaghmore, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donaghmore.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Gleneely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,672 people lived in 557 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% 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/16402 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51048 - Centre: latitude 54.778092, longitude -7.675334 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumfergus, from 7 m² to 199,047 m² (19.9 ha, 49.19 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4655267: 199,047 m² (19.9 ha, 49.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4655267.md - Parcel 1358903: 131,552 m² (13.16 ha, 32.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358903.md - Parcel 1358905: 62,564 m² (6.26 ha, 15.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358905.md - Parcel 1358904: 53,061 m² (5.31 ha, 13.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358904.md - Parcel 1304028: 50,689 m² (5.07 ha, 12.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304028.md - Parcel 1304285: 33,958 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304285.md - Parcel 1304284: 11,926 m² (1.19 ha, 2.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304284.md - Parcel 1365166: 6,363 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1365166.md - Parcel 1398203: 4,864 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398203.md - Parcel 1398209: 4,215 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1398209.md - Parcel 5314698: 3,879 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5314698.md - Parcel 1373901: 3,709 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373901.md - Parcel 1400360: 3,383 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400360.md - Parcel 1366231: 3,043 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366231.md - Parcel 3664667: 2,748 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664667.md - Parcel 4655264: 2,690 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4655264.md - Parcel 1352895: 2,484 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352895.md - Parcel 1376573: 2,456 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376573.md - Parcel 3664668: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664668.md - Parcel 1391235: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391235.md - Parcel 1321347: 2,236 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321347.md - Parcel 3657350: 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3657350.md - Parcel 1395215: 2,184 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395215.md - Parcel 1406630: 2,152 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406630.md - Parcel 1354289: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354289.md - Parcel 1393769: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393769.md - Parcel 1400218: 2,052 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400218.md - Parcel 4820228: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4820228.md - Parcel 3664665: 1,894 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664665.md - Parcel 1374932: 1,811 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374932.md - Parcel 1412812: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412812.md - Parcel 1405556: 1,506 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405556.md - Parcel 1399377: 1,348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399377.md - Parcel 1380460: 1,125 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380460.md - Parcel 3664666: 875 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664666.md - Parcel 4832275: 630 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4832275.md - Parcel 1421672: 589 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421672.md - Parcel 1417014: 534 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417014.md - Parcel 1423894: 273 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423894.md - Parcel 6092774: 266 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6092774.md - Parcel 4604529: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4604529.md - Parcel 6092789: 12 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6092789.md - Parcel 6092786: 7 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6092786.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumfergus 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560501: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560501/0 - 22 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350712: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350712/0 - 23 Jun 2021, Donegal County Council 2151231: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE & DETACHED GARAGE, CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE INCLUDING INTEGRAL GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151231/0 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 Drumfergus. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumfergus. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumfergus. ## 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 Drumfergus, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumfergus. - 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/drumfergus.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumfergus.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumfergus.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumfergus 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) - Ardnagannagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardnagannagh.md - Avaltygort: https://everytownland.com/donegal/avaltygort.md - Ballyarrell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyarrell.md - Drumcannon: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumcannon.md - Gleneely: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gleneely.md - Mounthall: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mounthall.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/drumfergus - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumfergus