Drumgorman

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgorman, from 128 m² to 108,527 m² (10.85 ha, 26.82 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumgorman 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.

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660179

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351588

• 3 Jul 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PLACEMENT OF A MOBILE HOME ON THE SITE FOR TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION WHILST RENOVATING THE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350953

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050431

• 17 Apr 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 08/20832

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850582

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 Drumgorman.

Recorded monuments

• DG098-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27m. A circular area enclosed by an earthen bank and the remains of a fosse and outer bank particularly evident on the NE side but elsewhere much eroded or gone. The inner bank is up to .95m in height and the fosse is up to 3.7m wide and up to c. 1.3m in depth. The outer bank is up to 1.4m in height. A 3.3m gap in the inner bank to the NE coincides with a causeway across the fosse and a gap in the outer bank. A stone c. 0.6m long is set in the inner bank here and probably marks the entrance. The site is located in good pasture on a drumlin with restricted views. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800 and extended c. 1860, having outbuilding attached to the east gable end. Single-bay flat-roofed addition attached to the east gable end of outbuilding. Pitched/domed thatched roof having ropes and wire mesh over secured on metal pegs below eaves level, and with two rendered chimneystacks (one to the west gable end and one to the east side of centre.. Limewashed rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the rear elevation (south). Square-headed door opening, offset to the west side of centre, having timber battened door. Flagstone floor to interior. Set back from road, aligned at a right-angle to the road-alignment, and located to the south-west of Mountcharles. Yard to front (north) and garden to rear (south). Pair of attached single-storey outbuildings to the north having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, cement rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed door openings with timber doors.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumgorman, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumgorman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumgorman

Area

1,273,086 m² (127.31 ha, 314.59 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Tantallon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,745 people lived in 670 households in the Tantallon electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Buncronan, Creevins, Drumcoe, Drumconor, Gortaward

Placenames

Drumgorman 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.