Drumhome

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhome, from 1,295 m² to 263,208 m² (26.32 ha, 65.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Drumhome 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.

• 21 Jul 2026N/a

  EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661344

• 14 Jul 2026N/a

  EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661297

• 1 Jun 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STORY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750846

• 24 May 2017N/a

  ERECTION OF A STORY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750795

• 10 Feb 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750191

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: Durnesh Lough SAC 000138
• Special Protection Area: Durnesh Lough SPA 004145
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Durnesh Lough 000138

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumhome.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1900, having two-storey return to the rear (south). Pitched natural slate roof with clay ridge tiles, and a central pair of smooth rendered chimneystacks with corbel course to head. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings with plain raised surrounds, painted sills, and with tripartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with narrow timber sliding sidelights to the outer bays (west and east) at ground floor level, central tripartite one-over-one pane timber sliding sash window at first floor level with narrow timber sliding sidelights, and with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to outer bays (east and west) at first floor level. Replacement window fittings to rear elevation (south) and side elevations. Central square-headed door opening having plain smooth rendered surround, battened timber door, and with overlight and sidelights. Set back from road in own grounds to the west of Ballintra, and a short distance to the east of the shores of Donegal Bay. Gravel forecourt and garden to the north. Aligned at a right-angle to the road alignment. Detached two-bay two-storey outbuilding to the south-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls with roughly squared flush quoins to the corners, and with square-headed doorways and loading bays having remains of timber battened doors. Modern garage to the west.

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumhome · Droim Thuama

Area

1,334,521 m² (133.45 ha, 329.77 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 755 people in 290 households; 81% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 41% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birra, Dromore, Drumoske, Durnesh, Inishfad, Inishinny, Lacklom, Mullanacross

Placenames

Drumhome 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.