# Drummenny Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 796,357 m² (79.64 ha, 196.78 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 44,582 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/donegal.md - Barony: Tirhugh - Electoral division: Tullynaught, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14278 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 51097 - Centre: latitude 54.658709, longitude -8.051255 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummenny Upper, from 489 m² to 125,559 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1341425: 125,559 m² (12.56 ha, 31.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341425.md - Parcel 1341404: 115,424 m² (11.54 ha, 28.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341404.md - Parcel 1320159: 89,562 m² (8.96 ha, 22.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320159.md - Parcel 1319088: 76,413 m² (7.64 ha, 18.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319088.md - Parcel 1341406: 74,443 m² (7.44 ha, 18.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341406.md - Parcel 1320156: 68,948 m² (6.89 ha, 17.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320156.md - Parcel 1341402: 45,327 m² (4.53 ha, 11.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341402.md - Parcel 1320157: 45,059 m² (4.51 ha, 11.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320157.md - Parcel 1341424: 44,582 m² (4.46 ha, 11.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341424.md - Parcel 1341403: 40,086 m² (4.01 ha, 9.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341403.md - Parcel 1320158: 24,481 m² (2.45 ha, 6.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320158.md - Parcel 1320172: 18,944 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320172.md - Parcel 1341405: 18,555 m² (1.86 ha, 4.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341405.md - Parcel 2734257: 3,664 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734257.md - Parcel 2734209: 3,481 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2734209.md - Parcel 1347141: 973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347141.md - Parcel 5500538: 489 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5500538.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 8 applications, newest first. - 14 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461443: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461443/0 - 20 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351596: Refused. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A TIMBER AIR DRYING SHED, WHICH WILL INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351596/0 - 28 Sept 2023, Donegal County Council 2351459: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A PORTAL FRAMED AIR DRYING SHED, CONCRETE PAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351459/0 - 17 Apr 2023, Donegal County Council 2350514: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350514/0 - 28 Oct 2022, Donegal County Council 2251783: N/a. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251783/0 - 29 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951147: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951147/0 - 29 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950794: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950794/0 - 1 May 2019, Donegal County Council 1950617: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1950617/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC, site code 000163, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000163 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummenny Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40909427, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909427. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Drummenny Upper, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1474.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Carnbeagh South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carnbeagh-south.md - Clarcam: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clarcam.md - Craigroe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/craigroe.md - Drumadoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumadoney.md - Drummenny Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-middle.md - Drumnahoul: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnahoul.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drummenny-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/drummenny-upper