Drumhallagh Upper

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhallagh Upper, from 385 m² to 190,453 m² (19.05 ha, 47.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 46 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drumhallagh Upper 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.

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW THREE BAY UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND SLATS ABOVE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560920

• 31 Jul 2024Conditional

  SUN ROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461165

• 12 Aug 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251367

• 27 Jul 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251290

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK\SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152278

• 27 Sept 2021N/a

  EXISTING UNIT WHICH IS USED AS A HAIR SALON, WITH CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151921

• 15 Sept 2021N/a

  EXISTING HAIR SALON PORTA-CABIN WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151840

• 28 Apr 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150778

• 14 Apr 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150673

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051929

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-017 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The tomb is on a level patch of ground 2.9km from the W side of Lough Swilly and lies between two small river valleys, one 500m to the N and the other 400m to the S. To the E is an extensive outlook over Lough Swilly. Northward, beyond a gentle fall, a low hill restricts the outlook. An arc of hills stretching northward from Croaghan Hill to Knockalla Mountain forms the western skyline. The area provides rough pasture broken by patches of outcropping rock in the immediate vicinity of the site. The structure consists of a roofless but otherwise well-preserved gallery facing NE. The gallery is 7m long and divided into two chambers by tall jambs set longitudinally at either side of a tall septal-stone. A considerable number of sizeable stones lie prostrate at the site, many of them wholly or partly covered by vegetation creep, and the tops of others, possibly set stones, protrude above ground level. Most but not all of these are shown on the plan. A line of stones running forward from either side of the gallery entrance may be displaced courtstones. However, they provide no reliable indication of the design of the court. The largest of these is up to 2m in maximum dimension, and all are prostrate except one, the second from the N side of the gallery entrance. This leans southward and would stand 0.35m high if upright. Some low stones beyond the sides and end of the gallery may be kerbstones, although there is now no definite trace of a mound at the site. Two prostrate slabs, perhaps fallen facade-stones, link the front of the N side of the putative kerb to the line of possible courtstones. Two well-matched, transversely set jambs, 0.7m apart, mark the entrance to the front chamber. This chamber is 3.6m long and 1.8m wide at the front, narrowing toward the segmentation. The northern entrance jamb has fallen forward and is now almost prostrate. It would stand 1.2m high if upright. The southern jamb is 1.35m high. Two stones remain on the S side of the front chamber. The outer one, next to the entrance jamb, is a low stone, 0.2m, high. An accumulation of earth hides its inner face so that it does not show on the section accompanying the plan. The inner orthostat is 1.35m high. Beyond this is a gap in the chamber wall. A single orthostat, 1.25m high, survives on the N side of the chamber. At the W end of this stone is a small stone lying transversely to the line of the gallery side. This is 0.6m high. It is not firmly set and may not be in situ. The segmenting jambs are set inside the ends of the slabs forming the sides of the second chamber. The northern jamb is 1.15m high. A piece may have been broken from the top of this stone. The southern one is 2.1m high. The septal-stone runs transversely between the jambs, the southern of which rises 0.9m above it. The second chamber is 3.1m long and narrows from 2.1m wide just inside the segmentation to 1.6m near the backstone. Single slabs form each side of this chamber. The northern sidestone is 0.95m high. The southern sidestone decreases in height from 1.1m at the segmentation to 0.7m at the other end. The slab forming the back of the gallery leans markedly outward. It would stand 1.5m high if upright. This is a flat-topped stone with sloping ends that broadens toward the base. It is set with its inner face in line with the end of the southern sidestone and 0.4m beyond the end of the northern one. A displaced slab resting on the backstone measures 1.5m by 0.8m by 0.2m thick, and another, lying in the second chamber, measures 1.4m by at least 1.3m by 0.4m thick. The resemblance of this chamber to a portal tomb has been noted elsewhere (de Valera 1960). A sketch plan of the gallery and an elevation of its S side in the OS Memoirs (1834) show that it was then in its present state except that the outwardly pitched northern entrance jamb and backstone were then upright. OS Memoir, Killygarvan parish (1834), 21 (plan and elevation); Hill 1847, 13; Batt 1889, 42; Kinahan 1889, 280; Borlase 1897, 231-2, Kilmacrenan no. 9; Somerville 1909, 215-18; Davies 1942, 82, fn. 8; H. Morris 1947, 41, no. B13; Corcoran 1960, 146, no. 113; de Valera 1960, 106, DG. 11 (plan); Killanin and Duignan 1962, 408; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 412; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 20-21, no. 23 (plan); SMR 1987, 28:17; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 28:17. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Drumhallagh Upper.

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

Name

Drumhallagh Upper

Area

2,398,075 m² (239.81 ha, 592.58 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Killygarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygarvan electoral division: 120 people in 45 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Creeveoughter, Drumhallagh Lower, Elly, Inniskil, Killycolman, Legland, Lugher, Newtown Carradoan

Placenames

Drumhallagh Upper 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.