Drumlaghdrid
Townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Loch Druid
- Area
- 441.8 ha
- 1,092 acres
- Land parcels
- 172
- registered freehold, median 5,457 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
172 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlaghdrid, from 19 m² to 287,242 m² (28.72 ha, 70.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumlaghdrid 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Feb 2026Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DERELICT BUILDING WITH ALTERATIONS TO FACADES AND (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660277
12 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560995
13 Dec 2024Unconditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450259
13 May 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A GARAGE WITH GRANNY-FLAT TO THE NORTH SIDE, A SUN PORCH TO THE SOUTH SIDE AND A STONE PORCH TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH A TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND DRAINAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150915
18 Feb 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH RECONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150271
5 Aug 2020Conditional
(1) PORCH EXTENSION TO THE FRONT (2) OUTDOOR DRYING AREA TO SIDE AND REAR (3) ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051030
3 Feb 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A 95M.SQ. REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING OYSTER SHELLFISH BUILDING UNIT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050099
9 Oct 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING, THE INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951513
24 May 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A SHOWER ROOM EXTENSION, RETAIN EXISTING BAY WINDOW AND CARRY OUT MINOR INTERNAL RENOVATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950767
23 May 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850819
8 Dec 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751862
24 Nov 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751781
16 Jan 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TO ACCOMMODATE A SUNROOM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750023
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumlaghdrid.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumlaghdrid.
Architectural heritage
- Traighena National School, school, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey T-plan national school, dated 1911, with projecting gabled porch to front, and having lower catslide return to rear fronted by lower lean-to addition, and with recent flat-roof extension also to rear. Pitched slate roof with decorative terracotta ridge tiles, exposed rafter ends, replacement rainwater goods, and slightly projecting rendered chimneystacks to gable ends; kneeler stones to porch roof, slate roof to return and addition; felt roof to extension, with replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast-rendered walls with decorative round cast-iron vents to gables. Painted plaque inscribed "TRAIGHENA/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1911". Square-headed openings with replacement painted stone sills and replacement timber casement windows and doors. Building set within curve in road, with low rendered boundary wall having entrances with square-plan piers.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, 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 Drumlaghdrid.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Drumlaghdrid, Lettermacaward5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Drumlaghdrid · Droim Loch Druid
- Area
- 4,417,730 m² (441.77 ha, 1,091.64 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Maghery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Maghery electoral division: 754 people in 290 households; 87% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cloghbolie, Derrydruel Upper, Meenlecknalore
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Drumlaghdrid 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.