Drumleene
Drumleene is a townland in the civil parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droim Lighean.
- Area
- 137.2 ha
- 339 acres
- Land parcels
- 68
- registered freehold, median 2,501 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumleene, from 6 m² to 516,849 m² (51.68 ha, 127.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Drumleene 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
21 May 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANKS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660931
18 Aug 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561414
20 Dec 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2351962
22 Aug 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC, TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351247
6 Jun 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350803
5 Oct 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251672
27 Jul 2022Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251291
27 May 2020Conditional
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH FIRST FLOOR STORAGE SPACE, ATTACHED COVERED CAR PORT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050683
2 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC, TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850002
3 Mar 2017Conditional
RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NUMBER 03/6708 AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE AND TO PROVIDE A NEW PERCOLATION AREA FOR EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750330
23 Jan 2017N/a
A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE NUMBER 03/6708 AND A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750075
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 Drumleene.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumleene.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumleene.
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 Drumleene, 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.
- Terrain model
- The Geological Survey did not answer.
- 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 Drumleene with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumleene · Droim Lighean
- Area
- 1,372,344 m² (137.23 ha, 339.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonleigh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Clonleigh North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballylennan, Creaghadoos, Dromore, Drumcrow, Glencash, Listannagh, Mulnagung, Tironeill
- Placenames
- Drumleene 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.