Drumnakilly
Townland in the civil parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim na Coille
- Area
- 37.1 ha
- 92 acres
- Land parcels
- 37
- registered freehold, median 4,209 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnakilly, from 288 m² to 49,194 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Drumnakilly 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
25 Jul 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Outline permission · Donegal County Council, 2561282
3 Jun 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORK
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560912
13 Sept 2023Conditional
EXTENSION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351367
14 Dec 2021Conditional
ALTERATIONS TO ATTIC ROOF SPACE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION AND WITH PROVISION FOR ADDITIONAL VELUX WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152495
23 Jan 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF ROOF DESIGN FROM THAT APPROVED UNDER PERMISSION 19/50507
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050043
11 Apr 2019Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF DEMOLITION OF DWELLING AND (2) RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (GRANTED UNDER 18/51134)
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950507
28 Jan 2019N/a
(1) RETENTION OF EXISTING BLOCK WALLS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS AND (2) COMPLETION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EXTENSION AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (18/51134)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950083
17 Jan 2019N/a
RETENTION TO EXISTING BLOCK WALLS AND ASSOCIATED WORKS AND COMPLETION OF PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EXTENSION AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM (18/51134)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950029
17 Jul 2018Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WHERE PREVIOUSLY WAS APPROVED DEMOLITION OF OUTBUILDINGS AND EXTENSIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING WITH UPGRADED ENTRANCE PER DONEGAL P.A (REF. NO.:18/50320 REFERS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851134
3 Jul 2018N/a
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851028
5 Mar 2018Conditional
DEMOLITION OF OUTBUILDINGS AND EXTENSIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO THE DWELLING WITH UPGRADED ENTRANCE AT A SITE LOCATED
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850320
27 Nov 2017N/a
EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751780
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 Drumnakilly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnakilly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumnakilly.
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 20 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 Drumnakilly.
- 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 Drumnakilly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumnakilly · Droim na Coille
- Area
- 371,445 m² (37.14 ha, 91.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inver, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Inver, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Inver electoral division: 795 people in 296 households; 86% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolshangan, Drumadart, Drumfin, Fanaghans, Kilmacreddan, Port
- Placenames
- Drumnakilly 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.