Drumnacraig

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnacraig, from 62 m² to 277,466 m² (27.75 ha, 68.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Drumnacraig 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.

• 5 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660143

• 14 Nov 2025N/a

  (1) STORAGE SHED FOR EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES AND (2) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DRY BED LIVESTOCK AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561991

• 6 Nov 2025N/a

  (1) STORAGE SHED FOR EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES AND (2) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DRY BED LIVESTOCK AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561939

• 22 Aug 2025N/a

  (1) STORAGE SHED AND (2) DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DRY BED LIVESTOCK AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561457

• 28 Feb 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING BOAT SHED TO GARAGE (SHELTERED CAR STORAGE) AND MOBILITY DEVICES STORAGE, AND THE ERECTION OF NEW BOAT SHED INCLUDING DAY/PLAYROOM, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560277

• 18 Apr 2018Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING, NEW PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850611

• 21 Sept 2017N/a

  EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING, NEW PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751450

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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnacraig.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, with porch, and having two-storey extension to rear. Replacement pitched slate roof, with raised eaves course, corbelled kneeler stones, replacement rainwater goods, and having rendered chimneystacks to gables with cornice copings. Porch has flat felt roof with raised crenellated parapet flanked by gablets over consoles on scrolled brackets atop panelled pilasters. Hipped slate roof to extension. Smooth rendered lined-and-ruled walls with raised painted plinth course and raised quoins. Square-headed openings with decorative render band having roughcast rendered header with decorative keystone incorporating heart and diamond motif, painted stone sills and margined one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Elliptical-headed doorway with decorative moulded rendered surround, timber panelled door and plain fanlight, flanked by square-headed sidelights with geometric glazing. Set on elevated site, parallel to and back from road, with garden to front, enclosed by rubble stone boundary wall. Single-storey outbuildings to northwest.

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

About 1 in 5 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Drumnacraig.

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.

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

Name

Drumnacraig · Droim na Creige

Area

837,568 m² (83.76 ha, 206.97 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fanad North electoral division: 540 people in 209 households; 88% of households own their home; 26% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carryblagh, Doagh Beg, Doaghcrabbin, Drumavohy And Ballybolagan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drumnacraig 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.