Drumnagroagh
Townland in the civil parish of Kilbarron, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 62.1 ha
- 153 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 3,720 m² (0.37 ha, 0.92 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnagroagh, from 54 m² to 134,453 m² (13.45 ha, 33.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumnagroagh 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
27 May 2026Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF UNDERGROUND SLATTED TANK, (2) ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED ABOVE SAME SLATTED TANK AND (3) ADJACENT CONCRETE APRON
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660963
26 Mar 2026Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/50159
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660510
18 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450159
28 May 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450144
15 May 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450129
8 Jun 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151115
15 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150457
18 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951960
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 Drumnagroagh.
Recorded monuments
- DG107-068 Enclosure
Description
There is no trace of the circular enclosure marked here on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated in an area with many ringforts but the nature of this site is not clear. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
- DG107-084 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 41.4m. An oval space enclosed by a substantial earthen bank, a fosse 5m wide, and surviving on the S side only, an outer bank and fosse. It is located within a wood and is completely overgrown. It is situated on rising ground S of the River Erne. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumnagroagh.
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
- About 1 in 5 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 Drumnagroagh.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumnagroagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumnagroagh
- Area
- 620,706 m² (62.07 ha, 153.38 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Carrickboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrickboy electoral division: 389 people in 156 households; 86% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardloughill, Ballynacarrick, Cavan, Clontyseer, Killeen, Raheen, Tully
- Placenames
- Drumnagroagh 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.