Drumsallagh

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumsallagh, from 420 m² to 94,927 m² (9.49 ha, 23.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Drumsallagh 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.

• 10 Dec 2025Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE AS BUILT WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562191

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF NEW DOUBLE GARAGE BUILDING TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050608

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: Leannan River SAC 002176

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumsallagh.

Architectural heritage

• Droichead na hAbhna Bige [Owenbeg Bridge], bridge, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c.1870, crossing An Abhainn Bheag [Owenbeg River], comprising segmental arch with elongated rock-faced stone voussoirs and walls, with battered random rubble abutments framing recessed arch and spandrels, and with parapets having large field-stones to copings.

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 Drumsallagh, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumsallagh · Droim Salach

Area

555,554 m² (55.56 ha, 137.28 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

400 people lived in 141 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynascall, Cornagullion, Drumnawooa, Inniskil, Stramore

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drumsallagh 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.