Drumnacroil

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnacroil, from 42 m² to 120,964 m² (12.1 ha, 29.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Drumnacroil 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.

• 23 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) ATTIC UTILISATION WITHIN THE EXISTING BUILDING TO PROVIDE FOR 4 NO. ADDITIONAL BEDROOMS AND GENERAL STORAGE AND ACCOMMODATION AREAS FOR BED & BREAKFAST USE; (2) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO INCLUDE PROVISION OF UPPER FLOOR WINDOWS IN BOTH SIDE GABLES AND PROVISION OF 2 NO. FIRE ESCAPE DOORS IN LIEU OF WINDOWS AT GROUND LEVEL IN BOTH GABLES AND PROVISION OF VELUX ROOF LIGHT WINDOWS ALONG THE REAR ELEVATION AT ROOF LEVEL; (3) REPLACEMENT & UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SERVICES AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES & SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROPERTY KNOWN AS DRUMNACROIL HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560634

• 22 Nov 2023N/a

  EXISTING SINGLE STOREY (4.25M HIGH TO EAVES) PITCHED ROOF, METAL CLAD STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351774

• 30 Jun 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTERGRATED GARAGE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350943

• 21 Mar 2023Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRATED GARAGE, PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350355

• 19 Mar 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050354

• 21 Feb 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF EXTENSIONS TO 2 NO. EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS BOTH TO BE USED AS "LOOSE HOUSE" HORSE STABLES. PREVIOUS PLANNING REFERENCE NO. 14/50915 REFERS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850246

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumnacroil.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnacroil.

Architectural heritage

• Ballybulgan Bridge, bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying road over the Ballintra River, built c. 1820. Segmental-headed arch having roughly dressed voussoirs to arch; rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Uncoursed rubble stone construction to spandrels; rubble stone construction to parapets having rubble stone coping over. Modern repairs in places. Side elevations (east and west) now overgrown with ivy. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Ballintra, adjacent to the west of former flax mill, now ruinous.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Drumnacroil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumnacroil

Area

620,834 m² (62.08 ha, 153.41 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybulgan, Drumaneel, Grahamstown, Kilgole, Lacklom, Tobernahoory

Placenames

Drumnacroil 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.