Drumirrin

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumirrin, from 42 m² to 220,980 m² (22.1 ha, 54.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Drumirrin 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.

• 25 Jun 2026N/a

  (1) ATTIC DEVELOPMENT TO THE EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF THE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661174

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  RENOVATION, RAISING OF EXISTING ROOF LEVEL AND EXTENSION TO NORTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WEAVING HOUSE TO EAST ELEVATION, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW LIVING AREA, RENOVATION AND RE-ROOFING OF EXISTING OUT HOUSE, CONVERT TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND CONNECT TO EXISTING DWELLING VIA LINK WITH PITCHED ROOF AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151258

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLINGHOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151140

• 17 Feb 2021N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150263

• 28 Jan 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950091

• 3 Aug 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851196

• 16 Feb 2018Unconditional

  EXISTING GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850224

• 22 Dec 2017N/a

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751989

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ENTRANCE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750507

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: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
• Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
• Special Protection Area: West Donegal Coast SPA 004150
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190

Recorded monuments

• DG073-009001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Diam. c. 20-25m. A D-shaped modern stone enclosure is built on the remains (and probably from the same material) of a destroyed cashel. The site is located on good pasture. 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

• DG073-009002 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG073-010 Cross-slab
  Description

  A slab .87m × 0.25m × 0.1m at present aligned E-W. On the N face is a cross with a circle to the top and two-thirds of a circle to the base. The cross-bar is thicker than the shaft and there is a small circular depression at the junction. The cross-slab originally stood nearby, to the SW. The area consists of pasture with rock outcrop. Stone cross originally in the south west resting under bent sycamore tree and probably the face of the cross was to the west. Possibility that well existed in close vicinity but no local knowledge. Slab once existed, with prayers inscribed on, beside the cross but now removed from that position. Farmer remembers its existence there in his youth c. 70 years ago. Cross-slab was moved to the adjoining townland where it is currently located (DG073-011-) 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, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having porch to front and addition to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof with mesh over, roped and pegged to stone pegs to eaves and gables, and having two rendered chimneystacks; flat rendered and felt roof to porch and addition. Smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills and replacement windows and doors. Garden to front. Outbuildings to east and west, former with pitched corrugated-asbestos roofs and latter with lean-to roof; recent farm building further east.

• House, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1870, having porch addition to front, and addition to rear. Pitched straw-thatched roof with wire mesh over and wired to stone pegs to gable and eaves, and two rendered chimneystacks; flat felt roofs to porch and addition. Roughcast-rendered walls with painted plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows and replacement glazed timber door. Three-bay single-storey vernacular house of c.1820 to west, having rounded pitched roof with remains of thatch, sod underthatch, stone pegs to gable, rubble chimneystacks, and square-headed openings. Single-storey rubble-walled outbuildings to rear.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Drumirrin.

Landslides

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumirrin · Droim Fhiorthainn

Area

2,388,231 m² (238.82 ha, 590.14 acres)

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghboy, Liskeeraghan, Newtownburke

Placenames

Drumirrin 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.