Drumskellan

160 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumskellan, from 2 m² to 876,757 m² (87.68 ha, 216.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Drumskellan 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.

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARDEN ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE SITE, TO INCLUDE; (I) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY LEAN-TO AT REAR OF DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-STOREY EXTENSION IN LIEU, (II) ADDITION OF PARTIALLY COVERED EXTERNAL AMENITY SPACE TO REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING, (III) ADDITION OF EXTERNAL TERRACE OFF UPPER FLOOR OF PROPOSED REAR EXTENSION, AND (IV) INSTALLATION OF THE REPLACEMENT ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561647

• 5 Sept 2025Refused

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550121

• 18 Aug 2025N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, AND ADDITION OF A DETACHED GARDEN ROOM TO THE REAR OF THE SITE INCLUDING (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY LEAN-TO AT REAR OF DWELLING AND ADDITION OF TWO-STOREY EXTENSION IN LIEU, (2) ADDITION OF PARTIALLY COVERED EXTERNAL AMENITY SPACE TO REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING, (3) ADDITION OF EXTERNAL TERRACE OFF UPPER FLOOR OF PROPOSED REAR EXTENSION, AND (4) INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561413

• 5 Dec 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND SIDE OF GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462007

• 20 Nov 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM DOMESTIC GARAGE TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461895

• 1 Sept 2023Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED FLAT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE THE RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE APPROVED MICA REPLACEMENT DWELLING (PLAN. REG. REF. NO.: 21/50853, (2) DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF THE GARAGE OUTER CAVITY WALL LEAF DUE TO MICA, (3) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) TEMPORARY CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351305

• 2 Aug 2023N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO SELF-CONTAINED FLAT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION TO FACILITATE THE RE-CONSTRUCTION OF THE APPROVED MICA REPLACEMENT DWELLING (PA REG. REF. NO.: 21/50853), (2) DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF THE GARAGE OUTER CAVITY WALL LEAF DUE TO MICA, (3) MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) TEMPORARY CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351147

• 10 Jun 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF SINGLE DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND AGRICULTURE STORAGE SHED

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151146

• 7 May 2021Conditional

  RELOCATED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING (AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REG NO. 01/4922) DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150853

• 15 Apr 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150678

• 8 Feb 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A SINGLE DWELLING WITH ON-SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND (2) AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150182

• 29 May 2019Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY LEAN-TO SIDE EXTENSION, SINGLE STOREY FRONT PORCH PROJECTION AND ELEVATION ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950819

• 14 May 2019N/a

  SINGLE STOREY LEAN-TO SIDE EXTENSION, SINGLE STOREY FRONT PORCH PROJECTION AND ELEVATION ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950735

• 5 Apr 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING PUBLIC HOUSE AND RESTAURANT TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE BUILDING TO CONTINUE ITS USE AS A PUBLIC HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950485

• 31 Oct 2018N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM A PUBLIC HOUSE AND RESTAURANT TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851666

• 14 May 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850766

• 20 Mar 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850420

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA 004087

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumskellan.

Architectural heritage

• Drumskellan Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over stream, built c. 1800. Round-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs, rubble stone piers and stone stringcourse. Rubble stone parapet with squared stone coping, rendered in places and with stringcourse to deck level. Stream partly canalised with rendered retaining wall to west bank. Double carriageway with tarmacadam deck.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with attic vernacular house, built c. 1860, with porch to rear. Pitched slate roof with gable ended red brick chimneystacks, clayware ridge tiles, rendered gable coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls with stone eaves course. Square-headed window openings with three-over-three and six-over-six timber sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening with timber panelled door. Set within own grounds with hedge and garden to front, remains of red brick shed to west and whitewashed rubble stone wall with sloping rendered coping and red brick piers with pyramidal coping and cast-iron gates to the south-east.

• Laurel Hill, house, 1830–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850. Hipped slate roof with clayware ridge tiles and paired smooth rendered chimneystacks with cornice coping, polygonal pots and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with rendered block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Door opening to east facing gable. Set within own grounds with outbuilding to west and large garden with long driveway to the front, with smooth rendered piers on a square plan with rendered pyramidal coping and double-leaf wrought-iron gates to entrance.

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 Drumskellan, 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 high, 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 Drumskellan.

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.

• Drumskellan, Ture6 sales

Name

Drumskellan

Area

5,161,782 m² (516.18 ha, 1,275.5 acres)

Civil parish

Muff, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Three Trees, the unit of the census

Census 2022

724 people lived in 254 households in the Three Trees electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmore, Eskaheen, Ture

Placenames

Drumskellan 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.