Drumkeelan

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumkeelan, from 36 m² to 196,352 m² (19.64 ha, 48.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Drumkeelan 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.

• 11 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED BUILDING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661075

• 18 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 144M² EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED, INCORPORATING A SLATTED UNDERGROUND TANK, A SHEEP HANDLING FACILITY, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660446

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AND OFFICE FACILITY BUILDING WITH INTERCONNECTION TO THE EXISTING WORKSHOP AND OFFICES, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PITCH ROOF EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING WORKSHOP TO MATCH THE EAVES AND RIDGE HEIGHT OF THE EXISTING, (3) RELOCATION AND UPGRADING OF THE VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING ENTRANCE AND (4) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK / SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562309

• 22 May 2025Conditional

  QUARRIED AREA COMPRISING 2.801HA OUTSIDE THE SITE HISTORIC QUARRY AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONTINUATION AND EXTENSION OF THE QUARRY AREA TO A TOTAL OF 2.141HA INCLUDING (A) USE AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING QUARRY ENTRANCES, (B) RELATED STRUCTURES AND DEVELOPMENTS AND (C) DRAINAGE AND SETTLEMENT PONDS AND (2) PROPOSED (A) LANDSCAPING BERM AND PLANTING/GRASS STRIPS, (B) CONCRETE APRON AND DRAINAGE GRID AT THE ENTRANCE, REFUELING PAD WITH HYDROCARBON INTERCEPTOR AND (C) ALL ANCILLARY DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A 25-YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION IS BEING SOUGHT FOR THIS QUARRY

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560824

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) EXISTING SHED AS A COMMERCIAL UNIT, (2) EXCAVATED SITE AND HARD STANDING AREAS AND PERMISSION FOR (1) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SHED, (2) INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460866

• 10 Mar 2021Conditional

  A 10 YEAR PERIOD FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF A TOTAL AREA OF 1.4 HECTARES COMPRISING OF AN EXTRACTION AREA OF 1.3 HECTARES AND A HAUL ROAD OF 0.1 HECTARES (3) EXTRACTION OF ROCK WILL BE UNDERTAKEN BY MECHANICAL MEANS DOWN TO A LEVEL OF APPROXIMATELY 112M ORDNANCE DATUM (4) OCCASIONAL PROCESSING OF MATERIAL USING MOBILE PLANT (5) LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE QUARRY (6) ALL OTHER ANCILLARY FACILITIES AND WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150425

• 21 Oct 2020Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051556

• 8 Nov 2019N/a

  A TEN YEAR PERIOD FOR EXTRACTION OF ROCK FROM AN AREA CONSISTING OF 1.3 HA DOWN TO A LEVEL OF APPROXIMATELY 112M OD BY MECHANICAL MEANS; OCCASIONAL PROCESSING OF MATERIAL USING MOBILE PLANT; LANDSCAPING AND RESTORATION OF THE QUARRY; ALL OTHER ANCILLARY FACILITIES AND WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951715

• 14 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW DWELLING INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750922

• 26 May 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A BUNGALOW DWELLING INCORPORATING A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM; FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750810

• 25 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STEEL PORTAL STORAGE SHED AND FOR ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750615

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumkeelan.

Recorded monuments

• DG093-005 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature has been listed as a possible megalithic tomb in the SMR for County Donegal (1987) and as a court tomb in the RMP for County Donegal (1995). It stands at the N end of a boggy plateau, 350m NW of Glencoagh Lough, and on top of a quarry face with a sheer drop to the N. The feature consists of a long, somewhat ill- defined, subrectangular mound, aligned approximately E-W and measuring c. 30m long, 14m wide and up to 1.5m high. Approximately 10m from its eastern end is an open space in the mound, oval in outline, measuring 8m E-W by 7m N-S. This open area is entered via a passageway, 3m long and 1m wide, through the S side of the mound. The sides of the passageway are faced with set stones, two on each side, varying from 0.6m to 1.6m long and from 0.2m to 0.6m high. Just inside the entrance passage two orthostats are exposed at the SE section of the perimeter of the open space. The northern one is lm long, and the southern one, nearer the entrance, is 1.4m long; both are 0.7m in exposed height. The mound is covered with grass and heather, but its make-up may be largely of stones. Some sizeable stones are visible in occasional exposures, but there is no trace of any formal structure. A doubt remains about the nature of the mound. Although it may be ancient, the matter is complicated by the presence of the quarry, which has been in operation since at least the first half of the 19th century; it is shown on the original OS 6-inch map (1835-6). Although the open space here bears a resemblance to a court at the centre of a long mound, it is also possible, particularly in the light of the doubts about the origin of the mound, that it is some form of small enclosure of uncertain date. The nature of this feature as a whole remains to be determined. SMR 1987, 93:5; RMP 1995, 93:5. 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

• DG093-006 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 1.95m high × 0.96m wide × 0.26m thick; E-W. Situated on rough pasture land just below the crest of an E-W running ridge. 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

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

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 Drumkeelan.

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

Name

Drumkeelan · Droim Chaoláin

Area

2,484,048 m² (248.4 ha, 613.82 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Tantallon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Tantallon electoral division: 1,745 people in 670 households; 80% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrollaghan, Dromore, Drumbeagh, Drumnalost, Eddrim Glebe, Edenamuck, Glencoagh

Placenames

Drumkeelan 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.