Drung

289 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drung, from 22 m² to 195,129 m² (19.51 ha, 48.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 55 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 Drung 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.

• 1 Apr 2026Conditional

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTACHED GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660547

• 13 Feb 2026N/a

  RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTACHED GARAGE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660191

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  ATTIC CONVERSION TO DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562323

• 5 Aug 2025N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF DERELICT DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561338

• 17 Jul 2024Conditional

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461095

• 11 Jun 2024N/a

  RENOVATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460876

• 22 Jan 2024Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/FUEL STORE BUILT TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DELEVOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460026

• 27 Oct 2023Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 97/2175 AND (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351638

• 10 Oct 2023Conditional

  PROVISION OF OFF LICENCE SUBSIDIARY TO THE MAIN RETAIL USE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351523

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY IN STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE FOR VINTAGE CAR STORAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350475

• 31 Jan 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC OUTBUILDING WITH AN ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250097

• 23 Nov 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152344

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152233

• 22 Feb 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EXISTING HARDCORED AND FENCES YARD TO BE REMOVED AND INCORPORATED AS PART OF THE PROPOSED SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150289

• 4 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150164

• 22 Dec 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING, CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052020

• 16 Dec 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051938

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH CATTLE HANDLING FACILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051826

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050505

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, (2) NEW ALTERED FLOOR LEVEL IN LIEU OF BOTH PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REFERENCE 18/50978 AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951708

• 13 Sept 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTIC STORAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951390

• 7 May 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A LARGER VERSION OF THE DESIGN FOR A NEW DORMER BUNGLAOW, A DOUBLE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTING CARPORT AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PACKAGE TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON THE SITE OF AN EXISTING PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED ON 19TH SEPTEMBER 2018 REF:18/50978

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950659

• 25 Feb 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ACCESS TAKEN FROM EXISTING ESTABLISHED LANEWAY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950234

• 19 Feb 2019Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950200

• 19 Dec 2018N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851914

The 25 most recent of 36 applications.

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: Magheradrumman Bog SAC 000168
• Special Protection Area: Lough Foyle SPA 004087

Recorded monuments

• DG031-004 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This monument, named 'Druid's Altar' on all editions of the OS 6-inch map, is in pasture 0.9km from the western shore of Lough Foyle. There is a steady fall in ground level from the site toward the lough, across which there is an extensive outlook. Rising ground to the W limits the view inland. A single upright stone measuring 0.6m by 0.7m by c. 2m high stands here. There is a small clump of earth and stones at its base. At the beginning of the 20th century two upright stones stood here, one described as c. 3 feet (c. 0.9m) and the other as c. 5 feet (c. 1.5m) high (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1900-1901). Entries in both an OS Name Book (1833-4) and the OS Memoirs (1833) mention the existence of a 'Druid's Altar' in the townland, but neither contains an account of it. Lewis (1837) noted that there were the remains of 'an ancient cromlech' not far from Drung (the village in the townland of the same name) and that these consisted of eight upright stones near which others lay flat. On the pre-publication Fair Plan of the original OS 6-inch map the site referred to in the heading is indicated by eight dots. Each of these may represent a stone. The evidence suggests that there may have been more substantial megalithic remains at this site than the two stones that stood here at the beginning of the 20th century. However, the nature of any such feature remains uncertain. OS Memoirs, Upper Moville parish (1833) [4]; OS Name Book, Upper Moville parish (1833-4), 26; Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 399; 'Maghtochair' 1867, 15; Doherty 1891, 26 (on the slopes of Condum Beg hill); OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 31 (1900-1901), 4; A.I. Young 1929, 8; Colhoun 1949, 117; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 380; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 48, no. 161; SMR 1987, 31:4; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; Colhoun 1995, 80, no. 31/5; RMP 1995, 31:4. 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

• DG031-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The monument has been totally obliterated by use as a graveyard (DG031-005001-), and only the curving outline to the N, E and S survives to suggest the presence of a ringfort. It is situated on a plateau, overlooking Lough Foyle, with a steep rise behind. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG031-005001 Burial ground
  Description

  Marked 'Fort' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The monument has been totally obliterated by use as a graveyard, and only the curving outline to the N, E and S survives to suggest the presence of a ringfort (DG031-005-). It is situated on a plateau, overlooking Lough Foyle, with a steep rise behind. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having modern entrance porch and extension to the front elevation (east) Now in use as outbuilding with ruined single-storey outbuildings attached to south gable. Pitched thatch roof with smooth rendered gable-ended chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with one-over-one pane horned timber sliding sash windows and rendered sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with timber panelled door. Set within own grounds down a long lane from the road. Located to the west of Moville in upland area.

• Church of St. Columba, church/chapel, 1865–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding five-bay nave Catholic church dedicated 1871, with polygonal chancel to north-east, bellcote to south-west gable, and projecting sacristy to northern corner. Pitched artificial slate roof with ashlar gable copings, and pyramidal ashlar finials, replacement rainwater goods. Squared coursed rubble walls with ashlar plinth course, ashlar plat band below windows, buttressing to corners with ashlar coping, buttresses to front elevation. Paired lancet window openings to nave and chancel, triple lancets to south-west elevation, having block-and-start ashlar quoins, ashlar head with rubble relieving arch, and stained glass infill. Pointed-arched door opening with ashlar bock-and-start quoins and ashlar head, with ashlar hoodmoulding, and rubble relieving arch. Interior with exposed braced and scissor trusses. Set within own grounds, surrounded by graveyard, older graveyard and ruin of former chapel to north-east, pedestrian entrance to south, with roughcast rendered walls, square gate piers, and wrought-iron gates.

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

  Double-arch road bridge over the River Drung, built c. 1800. Segmental-headed arches with large cut stone voussoirs, v-cutwaters, squared random rubble walls below deck level. Random rubble parapet walls with flat coping stones, stringcourse to deck level. Double carriageway to deck. Located to south-west of Redcastle.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, 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 Drung.

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.

• Drung, Quigleys Point12 sales

Name

Drung · Drong

Area

7,189,304 m² (718.93 ha, 1,776.52 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Redcastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Redcastle electoral division: 967 people in 314 households; 84% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyargus, Creehennan, Glencaw, Keeranbane, Meenabaltin, Meenaleavin, Roosky, Whitecastle

Placenames

Drung 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.