# Drumineney, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raphoe, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 376,088 m² (37.61 ha, 92.93 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raphoe, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raphoe.md - Barony: Raphoe North - Electoral division: Raphoe, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16487 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51067 - Centre: latitude 54.853106, longitude -7.614897 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumineney, from 330 m² to 128,415 m² (12.84 ha, 31.73 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1386814: 128,415 m² (12.84 ha, 31.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386814.md - Parcel 1391295: 55,588 m² (5.56 ha, 13.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391295.md - Parcel 5461372: 20,777 m² (2.08 ha, 5.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5461372.md - Parcel 1414932: 7,175 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1414932.md - Parcel 4661735: 3,492 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661735.md - Parcel 1393815: 2,063 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393815.md - Parcel 1339914: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339914.md - Parcel 1362001: 1,756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1362001.md - Parcel 3933748: 511 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3933748.md - Parcel 1357688: 375 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357688.md - Parcel 1372055: 330 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372055.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Drumineney 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 29 Jan 2026, Donegal County Council 2660122: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE, ADDITION OF STONE CLADDING TO THE FRONT PORCH, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660122/0 - 13 Jan 2022, Donegal County Council 2250018: Conditional. Permission. (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO 1 NO. LOOSE DRY SOW HOUSE (PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 13/50221, NOT COMPLETED) (2) DEMOLITION / REMOVAL OF EXISTING OFFICE AND CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. REPLACEMENT OFFICE AND ADJOINING / INTEGRATED STORAGE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA) ARISING FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ON EXISTING PIG FARM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250018/0 - 28 Jun 2021, Donegal County Council 2151280: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF BALL-STOP FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151280/0 - 5 Mar 2021, Donegal County Council 2150401: Conditional. Permission. (1) DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING PITCH PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244 (2) ERECTION OF (A) BALL-STOPPING FENCING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244 (B) ADDITIONAL BALL-STOPPING FENCING (C) FLOODLIGHTING (3) COMPLETION OF SITEWORKS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150401/0 - 25 Aug 2020, Donegal County Council 2051158: Conditional. Retention. 1 NO. PIG HOUSE (COMPLETED IN LIEU OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE REF NO. 9, PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. 1350221) AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION/CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SAME TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, ON EXISTING PIG FARM SITE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051158/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050416: Conditional. Permission. RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/50244 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050416/0 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 Drumineney. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG070-024: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG070-024----. A quartz standing stone, triangular in plan and c. 1m high x.5m wide at base. Situated on good land with extensive views, on the NW slope of Beltany Hill below the stone circle (326). 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 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) - Drumineney House, house, 1780–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40907019, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40907019. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having full-height two-storey canted bay windows to either end of the main elevation (east), and incorporating earlier two-storey house, c. 1800, to the rear (west) having single-storey extension to the south. Hipped natural slate roof to entrance front having projecting overhanging eaves, bracketed eaves course, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative cast-iron fleur-de-lys gutter guards, and with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having cornice coping and terracotta pots over. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to entrance block having smooth rendered block quoins to the corners, continuous moulded sill course at first floor level, and with smooth rendered stringcourses and decorative stucco panels with circular/ocular motifs over ground openings to canted bays. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level and segmental-headed window openings at first floor level having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; continuous sills to canted bay at ground floor level. Central segmental-headed doorway to main block having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, timber pilasters with console brackets over supporting moulded timber lintel, sidelights and overlight, and with rendered architraved surround. Pitched artificial slate roof to earlier block to rear having rendered chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls, and with square-headed openings. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west, built c. 1870 and possibly containing earlier fabric c. 1800, having pitched slate roofs and rubble stone walls, and square- and segmental-headed openings with brick dressings. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in the rural countryside to the south of Raphoe. Modern gateway to the east. ## 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 Drumineney, 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: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1835, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1835.zip (ZIP). - 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/drumineney.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumineney.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumineney.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Drumineney 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) - Beltany: https://everytownland.com/donegal/beltany.md - Cooladerry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cooladerry-50695.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/donegal/milltown-52051.md - Newrow: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newrow-52154.md - Tops: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tops.md - Tops Demesne: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tops-demesne.md - Tullyvinny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tullyvinny.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/drumineney - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drumineney