Drumlaght
Drumlaght is a townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droim Leachta.
- Area
- 38.4 ha
- 95 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,666 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumlaght, from 73 m² to 100,771 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumlaght 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
19 Jan 2024N/a
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY RECEPTION BUILDING ON THE FOOTPRINT OF AND USING THE STONE FROM THE DERELICT COLLAPSED MILL BUILDING ON THE SITE, (2) INSTALLATION OF 4 NO SINGLE STOREY GLAMPING PODS, (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE STORAGE TANK AND PUMPING STATION TO COLLECT AND PUMP SEWERAGE TO DISCHARGE INTO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AT MILL LANE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A CAR PARKING AREA, RAISED AND GROUND LEVEL ACCESS WALKWAYS, SERVICES PIPES, PUMPING STATION, SURFACE WATER DISCHARGE AND PERCOLATION SOAKAWAYS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES, (5) CONNECTION ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD, (6) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENTRANCE TO THE CAR PARK AND SERVICE AREA, AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED BOUNDARY TREATMENTS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460020
7 Jul 2020N/a
(1) PART DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING GARAGE ROOF (2) PART REBUILDING OF FIRST FLOOR INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF NEW WINDOW OPENINGS AND BLOCKING UP SOME EXISTING OPENINGS (3) CONNECTION OF THIS PROPOSED ANNEX LETTING DWELLING TO EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050886
24 May 2020Conditional
EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050484
13 Sept 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED TYPE STORAGE FACILITY UNIT ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751383
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumlaght.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumlaght.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Drumlaght, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1450 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumlaght with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumlaght · Droim Leachta
- Area
- 383,534 m² (38.35 ha, 94.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donegal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drumbarren, Drumlonagher, Drummeenanagh, Drumroosk East, Milltown
- Placenames
- Drumlaght 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.