Drummenny Upper

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummenny Upper, from 489 m² to 125,559 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Drummenny Upper 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.

• 14 Sept 2024Conditional

  COMPLETION OF THE SUPERSTRUCTURE OF A PORTAL FRAMED DOMESTIC GARAGE, WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 10/20370 AND INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461443

• 20 Oct 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TIMBER AIR DRYING SHED, WHICH WILL INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351596

• 28 Sept 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED AIR DRYING SHED, CONCRETE PAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351459

• 17 Apr 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF A CATTLE PEN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED, WITH STORAGE TANKS BELOW, SOAK PIT AND CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350514

• 28 Oct 2022N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING CATTLE PEN (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED WITH STORAGE TANKS BELOW AND CONCRETE APRON WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251783

• 29 Jul 2019N/a

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED, WITH STORAGE TANK BELOW, CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951147

• 29 May 2019N/a

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED, WITH STORAGE TANK BELOW, CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950794

• 1 May 2019N/a

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED SHEEP SHED, WITH STORAGE TANK BELOW, CONCRETE APRON TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950617

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummenny Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey house with attic level, built c. 1880, having two-bay single-storey addition/outbuilding attached to the north-east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, projecting eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (south-west and north-east). Mono-pitched natural slate roof to single-storey addition to the north-east gable. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to the main elevation (north-west), smooth rendered ruled-and-lines walls to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Square-headed window openings having stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the main elevation (north-west) and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to gable ends (north-east and south-west) at attic level. Central square-headed door opening to the main elevation having stone plinth blocks to base, timber sheeted door and plain overlight. Square-headed openings to the front face of attached outbuilding having timber battened door and fixed-pane timber window. Set slightly back from road in the rural countryside to the east of Donegal Town. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north-east having corrugated-metal roof and rubble stone walls; detached single-storey outbuilding with basement level across the road to the north-west having pitched natural slate roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with battened timber doors.

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 did not answer.

Landslides

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

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1474 (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.

No address of the register names Drummenny Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drummenny Upper

Area

796,357 m² (79.64 ha, 196.78 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tullynaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carnbeagh South, Clarcam, Craigroe, Drumadoney, Drummenny Middle, Drumnahoul

Placenames

Drummenny Upper 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.