Drumany
Drumany is a townland in the civil parish of Leck, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droimeanaigh.
Parcel 1316646
- Area
- 113,871 m² (11.39 ha, 28.14 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 517 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Drumany
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 110.2 ha
- 272 acres
- Land parcels
- 119
- registered freehold, median 1,931 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumany, from 23 m² to 218,537 m² (21.85 ha, 54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumany 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 Jul 2026Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK / PERCOLATION AREA AND PROVISION OF NEW BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER PACKAGED SECONDARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661259
14 Nov 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO ONE SIDE AND A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF THE GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS, ROOF AND INTERNAL LAYOUT. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT RELATE TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561988
28 Oct 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO ONE SIDE AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE OTHER SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF THE GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS, ROOF AND INTERNAL LAYOUT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561867
22 Oct 2025N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO ONE SIDE AND A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF THE GARAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS, ROOF AND INTERNAL LAYOUT. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT RELATE TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561837
30 Sept 2025Conditional
SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR ELEVATION AND SINGLE STOREY ENTRANCE PORCH TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561688
29 Sept 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO-STOREY HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW TWO-STOREY REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND (B) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA TO THE SOUTH OF THE PROPOSED HOUSE AND (4) PROVISION OF A SOAKAWAY SURFACE WATER SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS RELATING TO THE ITEMS ABOVE INCLUDING DEFINED BOUNDARY TREATMENT
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561683
10 Oct 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461599
2 Oct 2024N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461551
14 Jun 2024Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450158
26 Mar 2024Conditional
UPGRADED SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450093
26 Mar 2024Conditional
(1) EXTENSION TO BEDROOM NO. 7 TO SIDE OF BUILDING, (2) EN-SUITE EXTENSION TO BEDROOM NO. 21 TO REAR OF BUILDING, (3) INCREASE IN SIZE OF EN-SUITE TO BEDROOM NO. 4 TO SIDE OF BUILDING, (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (6) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO BEDROOM NO. 3 TO FRONT AND SIDE OF BUILDING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450092
23 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SHED FOR THE STORAGE OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351604
15 Jun 2023Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350855
1 Nov 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FLAT ROOF CARPORT AND ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE TO BE ACCESSED VIA AN EXISTING LANEWAY TO INCLUDE PROVISION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152155
7 Apr 2021Conditional
ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING REVISION TO WINDOW SIZES AND LOCATION, INSERTING OF NEW DOORS AND STONE CLADDING TO SECTIONS OF THE EXTERNAL FACADE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150594
11 Dec 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951917
5 Jun 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950854
26 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE FRONT & SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750997
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Drumany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumany.
Architectural heritage
- Leck Church of Ireland Parish Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell former Church of Ireland church, built c. 1840, comprising three-bay hall. Now in use as offices. Pitched artificial slate roof with projecting cut stone eaves course, raised ashlar granite coping to gables having carved kneeler stones to eaves, and with tripartite carved sandstone chimneystack to the gable apex to the rear (north-east). Coursed and squared rubble stone walls over ashlar granite plinth to front (south-east), rubble stone walls to side elevation (north-west and south-east), and smooth and roughcast rendered wall to rear (north-east). Pointed-arched window opening to the front elevation (south-west) having splayed\chamfered ashlar granite surround, and with cast-iron multi-paned windows. Pointed-arched window opening to the rear elevation (north-east) having splayed\chamfered ashlar granite surround, timber Y-tracery and with cast-iron multi-paned windows; main window flanked by narrow pointed-arched windows having splayed\chamfered ashlar granite surround, and with cast-iron multi-paned windows. Pointed-arched window opening to the side elevations (north-west and south-east) having splayed\chamfered ashlar granite surround, and replacement windows. Round-headed door opening to centre of main façade (south-west) with cut granite staged surround, granite plinth blocks, granite hoodmoulding over, and with replacement door. Pointed-arched door opening to west of north elevation with replacement timber battened door. Set back from road in elevated site in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny.
- Bridge, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch former railway bridge, built c. 1909, carrying road over the former Strabane to Letterkenny narrow gauge railway line. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Squared and mildly rock-faced construction to spandrels, parapets, and piers; chamfered cut stone coping over parapets. Cut stone block-and-start quoins to piers below arch springing point. Segmental-headed arch with cut stone voussoirs or ruled-and-lined render detailing to arch ring, and with cement rendered finish to arch barrel. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the east\south-east of Letterkenny.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Drumany, 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 Drumany.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Drumany, Letterkenny8 sales
The townland
- Name
- Drumany · Droimeanaigh
- Area
- 1,102,315 m² (110.23 ha, 272.39 acres)
- Civil parish
- Leck, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Magheraboy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,719 people lived in 542 households in the Magheraboy electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunnagee, Corranagh, Dromore, Listellian, Lurgybrack
- Placenames
- Drumany 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.