Drumnaha

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnaha, from 535 m² to 138,464 m² (13.85 ha, 34.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Drumnaha 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.

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GRAIN STORE, MILL WAREHOUSE AND SERVICE YARD TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE EXISTING MILLING FACILITY, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DISPATCH SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MILL AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GABION RETAINING WALL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND BOUNDARY FENCING TO THE SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST AND NORTH BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660451

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW GRAIN STORE, MILL WAREHOUSE AND SERVICE YARD TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE EXISTING MILLING FACILITY, (2) EXTENSION ON TO THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MILL AND (3) A NEW GABION RETAINING WALL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND BOUNDARY FENCING TO THE SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST AND NORTH BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660163

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 Drumnaha.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-046 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This was first shown on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5), where it is named 'Giant's Grave', and it was also so named on the revision at that scale of 1845-7. It stood close to the S side of the road running SW from Ballindrait, on gently rolling pasture, 600m S of the Deele River. The site is overlooked from the S by Croaghan Hill, 1.5km distant. The relevant Name Book and the Memoir of the original OS 6-inch survey refer, respectively, to 'a few stones having the appearance of antiquity' called 'the Giant's Bed' and to 'some large stones, called a Giant's Grave'. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited the site in 1846 and described it as 'the ruins of a giant's grave' lying almost E-W, measuring 151/2 feet (c. 4.7m) long and 3 feet to 7 feet (c. 0.9m-2.15m) wide and enclosed by 'great flat stones' 2 feet to 41/2 feet (c. 0.6-1.4m) high, seven of which were then in place. These were 41/2 feet to 8 feet (c. 1.4-2.4m) long and 1 foot to 3 feet (c. 0.3-0.9m) thick. Approximately 51/2 feet (c. 1.7m) to the W was a large slab 6 feet (c. 1.8m) long, 51/2 feet (c. 1.7m) broad and c. 2 feet (c. 0.6m) thick. No trace remained of this feature in 1904 according to an OS 1:2,500 Name Book of that year. On a visit here in the early 1950s Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin noted low stones in the roadside hedge adjacent to the original position of the monument, but it was unclear whether these ever formed part of an ancient structure. In 1984 a large stone of uncertain origin was noted in the hedge here. Fagan's account suggests that there may have been a megalithic tomb here, but the evidence does not warrant its acceptance as a definite one. OS Name Book, Clonleigh parish (1834-5), book 1, 15; OS Memoirs, Clonleigh parish (1835), 23; Fagan 1845-8, book 10, 33; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 70 (1905), 58; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 44-5, no. 124; SMR 1987, 70:46; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 70:46. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1890, having single-storey flat-roofed canted bays to either end of the front elevation (north-east), two-storey block to the rear (south-west) possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier building to site, single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the south-west, and with single-storey flat-roofed extension to the rear. Hipped natural; slate roof with overhanging eaves with paired decorative brackets, and with a central pair of yellow brick chimneystacks having steeped coping and clay pots over, and with yellow brick and smooth rendered chimneystack to the rear pitch (south-west). Flat felt roof to canted bays. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth, and with smooth rendered fielded block quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings, paired to outer bays at first floor level, having moulded render architraved surrounds with fielded keystone motifs, painted stone sills, and having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Central round-headed doorway to the front elevation having timber panelled double-doors with bolection mouldings, rendered architraved surround with field keystone motif, plain overlight, and with flight of moulded stone steps flanked to either side by smooth rendered dwarf walls. Two-storey block to rear, possibly part of earlier dwelling to site, having pitched natural slate roof with decorative timber bargeboards to south-east gable end, and with two-stage rendered chimneystack, roughcast rendered walls, square-headed window openings at ground floor level with replacement fittings, shallow segmental-headed window openings over with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, and with square-headed doorway to the south-east face of porch having replacement door. Complex of two-storey outbuildings, built c. 1890 and c. 1910, on U-shaped plan arranged around a courtyard to the west having pitched and hipped natural purple slate roofs, random rubble stone walls, square-headed doorway and loading bays openings with red brick reveal, timber lintels, and battened timber fittings, round window openings with red brick reveals, segmental-headed carriage-arches (some now infilled) having red brick surrounds an voussoirs, and modern square-headed carriage-arches with sliding metal doors and corrugated-metal sheets doors. Set back from road in own grounds in the rural countryside to the south-west of Ballindrait. Gravelled forecourt to the south-east. House approached along laneway from the east.

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).

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

Name

Drumnaha

Area

321,963 m² (32.2 ha, 79.56 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh South, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballindrait, Guystown, Millsessiagh, Springhill, Tieveboy

Placenames

Drumnaha on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.