Drumnashear

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnashear, from 831 m² to 80,520 m² (8.05 ha, 19.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Drumnashear 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.

• 24 Jun 2024N/a

  FILLING LANDS WITH SOIL, STONE AND EARTH INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460945

• 2 Apr 2024N/a

  FILLING OF LANDS WITH SOIL, STONE AND EARTH INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THE APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460428

• 25 May 2023Conditional

  (A) EXTENSION TO EXISTING PACKAGING BUILDING ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR, (B) RELOCATION OF TRAY WASH FACILITY, IN NEW EXTENSION TO GROUND FLOOR, (C) EXISTING TRAY WASH AREA TO BE CHANGED TO PACKAGING AREA, (D) RELOCATION OF EXISTING GAS OIL AND SRM TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, (E) PROVISION OF A TWO STOREY PLANT ROOM ATTACHED TO TRAY STORE, (F) BONE TRAILER YARD COVERED AND (G) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM DRAINAGE WITHIN EXISTING SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350729

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING PACKAGING BUILDING ON GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM TRAY WASH AREA TO PACKAGING AREA (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING FOUL AND STORM DRAINAGE WITHIN EXISTING SITE (4) RELOCATION OF (A) TRAY WASH FACILITY, IN NEW EXTENSION TO GROUND FLOOR (B) EXISTING GAS OIL AND SRM TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250602

• 13 Jan 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250020

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: River Finn SAC 002301
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: River Foyle, Mongavlin To Carrigans 002067

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnashear.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge carrying small road over the former Dundalk Barrack Street to Derry Foyle Road railway line, built c. 1847. Now out of use following closure of rail line in 1965. Segmental-headed arch having ashlar granite voussoirs with chamfered edging, and with brick construction to arch barrel. Chamfered ashlar stringcourse running through arch barrel at arch springing point. Squared and randomly coursed rubble limestone construction to spandrels, abutments, and parapets; ashlar granite quoins with chamfered edging to corners of abutments. Ashlar granite stringcourse at deck level. Battered piers to either side of arches having squared and randomly coursed rubble limestone construction and ashlar granite quoins to the corners. Located to the south-east of Carrigans, adjacent to the River Foyle.

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

At the centre of the townland of Drumnashear, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Drumnashear with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumnashear

Area

380,606 m² (38.06 ha, 94.05 acres)

Civil parish

Killea, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Glasmullan, Newtownhamilton

Placenames

Drumnashear 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.