Dunmore

386 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunmore, from 54 m² to 1,592,758 m² (159.28 ha, 393.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 72 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 Dunmore 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.

• 28 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANKS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660979

• 26 May 2025Conditional

  CONVERSION OF EXISTING OUTHOUSE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION, REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560843

• 12 Jul 2024N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTHOUSES AND (2) EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461072

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351988

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  (A) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, (B) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING COTTAGE TO PROVIDE A STORE AND HOME GYM AUXILLARY TO PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351031

• 25 Jan 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350065

• 5 Aug 2022Conditional

  8 POD GLAMPÁLA A TÓGAIL LE H-IONAD CÓIREÁLA FUIOLLUISCE AGUS GACH OBAIR FORBARTHA LÁITHREÁIN GHAOLMHAR EILE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251338

• 6 Jul 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251158

• 29 Mar 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250535

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND MACHINERY SHED INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250409

• 6 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151573

• 14 Aug 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051117

• 11 Feb 2020Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050134

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950306

• 2 Jan 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. NEW DWELLING WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950001

• 11 Oct 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF 1 NO. NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851565

• 18 Dec 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. NEW DWELLING AND GARAGE

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751898

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750607

• 29 Mar 2017Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750457

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

• DG025-033 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. This site is very ruined and appears as a low grassed-over, stony platform c. 0.5m high with traces of a low perimeter bank c. 0.2m high. It appears to have formed a semi-circle on plan, a steep fall c. 7m in height marking its N edge. A modern stone field wall runs E-W close to the N limit of the site. It is not clear whether this is a stone or earthen enclosure although the former is more likely. It is in level grazing land overlooked by a gentle rise to the W. To the E the land slopes gently to the Ray river. 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

• DG025-044 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature was first marked on the 1847-9 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It stood 1.3km ESE of the site of the destroyed court tomb in Ballintemple (Dg. 2), on gently sloping pasture overlooking the valley of the Ray River. To the S the mountains stretching from Errigal to Muckish form the skyline. An OS 1:2,500 Name Book records that there were 'several large stones' at the site in 1905. According to local information, four stones remained here until c. 1930, when they were removed. One stone is said to have been buried, and the others were apparently used for wall-building. Two accounts of the monument are contained in OS documents. The first is by Thomas Fagan (1845-8), who saw it in 1845. He described it as 'the ruins of an ancient sepulture called Dermot and Grania's Bed…which seem to have originally occupied 30 by 15 feet [c. 9.15m by 4.6m] but at present consist in a few of the large stones originally enclosing the graves'. To the N was a large slab 51/2 feet (c. 1.7m) long, 5 feet (c. 1.5m) broad and 11/2 feet (c. 0.45m) thick, with its S end raised 2 feet (c. 0.6m) above ground on two 'upright pillars'. Fagan thought that this large slab had originally rested clear of the ground on the two supporting stones. Approximately 121/2 feet (c. 3.8m) to the S a large stone 91/2 feet (c. 2.9m) long, 4 feet (c. 1.2m) broad and of similar thickness lay flat on the ground at right angles to the long axis of the monument. It appeared to Fagan to have been intended to divide the structure into 'two apartments'. The second account, in an OS Revision Name Book (1847-9), reads as follows: 'This monument is about 18 feet [c. 5.5m] long and 8 feet [c. 2.4m] broad. It is placed N and S and on the N end is a large flag 5 feet [c. 1.5m] long and 4 feet [c. 1.2m] broad. It stands on its edge in a sloping position toward the south and supported by two smaller stones. In the S end is another large stone shaped like a wedge with the narrow part uppermost and extends across the whole breadth of the monument. There are four other smaller stones at the S end.' The accounts referred to describe what may have been a considerably ruined megalithic tomb. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 14; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 39; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 25 (1905), 45; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 125; SMR 1987, 25:44; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 25:44. 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

• DG025-052 Burnt mound
  Description

  In damp, rush-grown pasture, located in a small stream valley, adjacent to the W bank of the stream which flows NE into the Ray River. A roughly D-shaped mound (16m NE−SW; c. 8m NW−SE; H c. 1m at E, 0.3-0.5m at W) truncated on the straight side to SE by a modern field drain on a NE−SW axis. The field drain (Wth 2m; D 0.8-1m) intersects with the stream just beyond the NNE end of the burnt mound. The top of the mound rises to a height of between 1.6m above the base of the field drain. A small eroded portion of the mound at E reveals a concentration of angular, heat-shattered stones in a matrix of charcoal-rich soil. The mound is grass-covered, with small clumps of gorse on the S and E sides. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 28 April 2016

Architectural heritage

• House, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1890, having windbreak entrance, two-storey outbuilding attached to south end, with three-bay single-storey outbuilding attached at right angle to front having recessed lean-to annex to south gable, and one-bay single-storey outbuilding to north. Now disused. Pitched fibre-cement slate roof with rendered copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystacks. Flat felt roof to windbreak. Smooth-rendered and limewashed walls on painted projecting plinth course. Square-headed window openings with three-over-three pane horned timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, and timber battened door. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs, rendered rubble stone walls and timber battened doors to outbuildings, that to north outbuilding being vehicular entrance. Set back from road with single-storey lime-washed rubble stone outbuildings to site, field stone wall to east.

• Droichead na hAbhna Bige [Owenbeg Bridge], bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Four-span bridge, built c.1820, crossing the stream-like An Abhainn Bheag [Owenbeg] tributary of Abhainn Ráithe [Ray River]. Rubble sandstone walls with rendered chamfered copings to parapets, flat arches comprising single stone lintels, and triangular stone cut-waters. Parapets altered, with date of 7/7/81 (likely 1881) inscribed in coping. Set in rural landscape.

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 20 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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Dunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dunmore · An Dún Mór

Area

7,011,967 m² (701.2 ha, 1,732.69 acres)

Civil parish

Raymunterdoney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintemple, Ballyness Mountain, Carrowcanon, Clonbara, Falcarragh, Moyra Glebe, Tullaghobegly Scotch

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Dunmore 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.