# Drumhallagh Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,398,075 m² (239.81 ha, 592.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,307 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 10 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killygarvan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killygarvan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Killygarvan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15893 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51060 - Centre: latitude 55.134676, longitude -7.568957 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhallagh Upper, from 385 m² to 190,453 m² (19.05 ha, 47.06 acres); 46 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1322714: 190,453 m² (19.05 ha, 47.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322714.md - Parcel 1320796: 175,739 m² (17.57 ha, 43.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320796.md - Parcel 1392278: 156,950 m² (15.69 ha, 38.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392278.md - Parcel 1320842: 112,463 m² (11.25 ha, 27.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320842.md - Parcel 1349215: 96,366 m² (9.64 ha, 23.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349215.md - Parcel 1340747: 94,613 m² (9.46 ha, 23.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340747.md - Parcel 1320840: 85,526 m² (8.55 ha, 21.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320840.md - Parcel 1320843: 79,369 m² (7.94 ha, 19.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320843.md - Parcel 1340636: 77,264 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340636.md - Parcel 5954792: 74,576 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954792.md - Parcel 1340643: 71,160 m² (7.12 ha, 17.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340643.md - Parcel 2641167: 66,901 m² (6.69 ha, 16.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2641167.md - Parcel 1346195: 64,469 m² (6.45 ha, 15.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346195.md - Parcel 1320759: 58,745 m² (5.87 ha, 14.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320759.md - Parcel 1340640: 53,024 m² (5.3 ha, 13.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340640.md - Parcel 1320841: 51,080 m² (5.11 ha, 12.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320841.md - Parcel 1335438: 50,051 m² (5.01 ha, 12.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335438.md - Parcel 1329876: 48,786 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329876.md - Parcel 1340743: 48,650 m² (4.86 ha, 12.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340743.md - Parcel 1322718: 48,268 m² (4.83 ha, 11.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322718.md - Parcel 1340745: 45,652 m² (4.57 ha, 11.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340745.md - Parcel 1373389: 45,236 m² (4.52 ha, 11.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1373389.md - Parcel 1322713: 40,006 m² (4 ha, 9.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322713.md - Parcel 1315953: 37,583 m² (3.76 ha, 9.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315953.md - Parcel 1340642: 35,093 m² (3.51 ha, 8.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340642.md - Parcel 1320760: 34,595 m² (3.46 ha, 8.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320760.md - Parcel 1340744: 31,030 m² (3.1 ha, 7.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340744.md - Parcel 1338591: 28,556 m² (2.86 ha, 7.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338591.md - Parcel 1340638: 25,730 m² (2.57 ha, 6.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340638.md - Parcel 1340637: 24,658 m² (2.47 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340637.md - Parcel 1320761: 22,277 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320761.md - Parcel 1343208: 19,438 m² (1.94 ha, 4.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343208.md - Parcel 1340748: 18,674 m² (1.87 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340748.md - Parcel 1322719: 18,126 m² (1.81 ha, 4.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322719.md - Parcel 1338585: 16,307 m² (1.63 ha, 4.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338585.md - Parcel 1320763: 15,151 m² (1.52 ha, 3.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320763.md - Parcel 1340746: 14,839 m² (1.48 ha, 3.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340746.md - Parcel 1320762: 12,801 m² (1.28 ha, 3.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320762.md - Parcel 5142804: 12,351 m² (1.24 ha, 3.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5142804.md - Parcel 1427793: 9,863 m² (0.99 ha, 2.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427793.md - Parcel 1340749: 8,744 m² (0.87 ha, 2.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340749.md - Parcel 1338588: 8,108 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338588.md - Parcel 1338590: 7,881 m² (0.79 ha, 1.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338590.md - Parcel 1338587: 7,524 m² (0.75 ha, 1.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338587.md - Parcel 1338586: 6,912 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338586.md - Parcel 1340641: 5,885 m² (0.59 ha, 1.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340641.md - Parcel 1322717: 5,259 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322717.md - Parcel 5142807: 4,422 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5142807.md - Parcel 1338589: 3,851 m² (0.39 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338589.md - Parcel 4762119: 3,511 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4762119.md - Parcel 1322715: 3,459 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322715.md - Parcel 5435167: 3,012 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5435167.md - Parcel 3949475: 2,952 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3949475.md - Parcel 5954793: 2,752 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954793.md - Parcel 1319300: 2,250 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319300.md - Parcel 1403068: 2,185 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403068.md - Parcel 1322716: 1,923 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322716.md - Parcel 1340639: 1,839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340639.md - Parcel 1410120: 1,618 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410120.md - Parcel 1343451: 1,420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343451.md - Parcel 1313867: 1,383 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313867.md - Parcel 1340742: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340742.md - Parcel 5954772: 1,220 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954772.md - Parcel 2641168: 1,064 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2641168.md - Parcel 1336308: 1,035 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336308.md - Parcel 1341767: 1,007 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341767.md - Parcel 4724633: 873 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4724633.md - Parcel 4724631: 725 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4724631.md - Parcel 1320844: 385 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320844.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 10 applications, newest first. - 4 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560920: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF NEW THREE BAY UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND SLATS ABOVE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560920/0 - 31 Jul 2024, Donegal County Council 2461165: Conditional. Retention. SUN ROOM TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461165/0 - 12 Aug 2022, Donegal County Council 2251367: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251367/0 - 27 Jul 2022, Donegal County Council 2251290: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251290/0 - 17 Nov 2021, Donegal County Council 2152278: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND CAR PORT, SEPTIC TANK\SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152278/0 - 27 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151921: N/a. Retention. EXISTING UNIT WHICH IS USED AS A HAIR SALON, WITH CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151921/0 - 15 Sept 2021, Donegal County Council 2151840: N/a. Retention. EXISTING HAIR SALON PORTA-CABIN WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151840/0 - 28 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150778: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150778/0 - 14 Apr 2021, Donegal County Council 2150673: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150673/0 - 15 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2051929: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051929/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG028-017: Megalithic tomb - court tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-017----. 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) 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumhallagh Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/drumhallagh-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhallagh-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhallagh-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Creeveoughter: https://everytownland.com/donegal/creeveoughter.md - Drumhallagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhallagh-lower.md - Elly: https://everytownland.com/donegal/elly.md - Inniskil: https://everytownland.com/donegal/inniskil-51514.md - Killycolman: https://everytownland.com/donegal/killycolman.md - Legland: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legland-51695.md - Lugher: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lugher.md - Newtown Carradoan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtown-carradoan.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/drumhallagh-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumhallagh-upper