Drumcarn

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumcarn, from 542 m² to 250,902 m² (25.09 ha, 62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Drumcarn 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.

• 24 Jun 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING STORE AND EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO COMMERCIAL USE ALONGSIDE CONSTRUCTION OF PROPOSED COMMERCIAL BUILDING (126M)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650089

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF POSITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND DRIVEWAY WHICH HAS BEEN ALTERED SLIGHTLY FROM ORIGINAL GRANT OF PERMISSION, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FLAT ROOF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WILL LINK INTO THE EXISTING GARAGE AND (3) CONVERSION OF EXISTING GARAGE TO A NEW PLAYROOM WHICH INCLUDES ALTERATIONS TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE GARAGE INCLUDING REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING ROLLER DOOR WITH A NEW WINDOW AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WINDOW TO THE REAR OF THE GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660337

• 4 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 14/50843, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ERECTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) CREATION OF A NEW ENTRANCE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660138

• 16 Jun 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ROOFED SILAGE PIT WITH UNDERGROUND TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561011

• 13 Nov 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE CONSISTING OF DRESSING ROOMS, STORAGE AREA, GYM AND FUNCTION ROOM INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461832

• 15 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVELS OF FORMER RAILWAY LINE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) REINSTATEMENT OF PART OF FORMER RAILWAY LINE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450084

• 7 Nov 2022Refused

  THE REDUCTION OF GROUND LEVELS OF FORMER RAILWAY LINE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED GROUND WORKS TO IMPROVE USE OF FARM LAND

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251814

• 7 Oct 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251688

• 14 Mar 2022Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250429

• 30 Sept 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151953

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951242

• 7 Nov 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851718

• 5 Nov 2018N/a

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED FOR AGRICULTURAL VINTAGE MACHINERY AND ANCILLARY DOMESTIC STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851692

• 11 Oct 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851576

• 24 Sept 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851482

• 20 Apr 2018Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 9 BAY AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 819 SQ.METRES AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NEW SILAGE PITS MEASURING 554 SQ. METRES EACH AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850596

• 16 Mar 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 9 BAY AGRICULTURAL SHED MEASURING 819 SQ.METRES, 2 NEW SILAGE PITS MEASURING 554 SQ. METRES EACH AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON EXISTING FARM YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850382

• 21 Jun 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750992

• 8 Mar 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SHED FOR AGRICULTURAL VINTAGE MACHINERY AND ANCILLARY DOMESTIC STORAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750356

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 the townland of Drumcarn.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumcarn.

Architectural heritage

• Railway station, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built c. 1883. Now in use as a private house (line closed 1953) with later single-bay extension to the east gable end and with modern porch extension to the rear (north). Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) having overhanging eaves exposed decorative rafter ends to eaves, grey clay ridge tiles , smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) with red clay pots over, decorative pierced timber bargeboards to gable ends with trefoil perforations, and with metal rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls, formerly smooth rendered and ruled-and-lined, with flush red brick quoins to the corners, smooth rendered plinth course, horizontal smooth rendered stringcourse at first floor level, and with moulded rendered stringcourse at ground floor level brought over window heads as architrave. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted stone sills, and with replacement timber casement windows having margin glazing bars. Central square-headed door opening to front elevation (south) with smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber door, replacement square-headed sidelights, and with timber lintel over. Set back from road with gravel drive running to roadway to the north-east. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Manorcunningham. Former railway goods shed adjacent to the east. Wrought-iron gates and metal railings to the north of site.

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 Drumcarn, 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 Drumcarn.

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

Name

Drumcarn

Area

1,426,944 m² (142.69 ha, 352.61 acres)

Civil parish

Raymoghy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Kincraigy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,036 people lived in 337 households in the Kincraigy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Carrickballydooey, Carricknamart, Drumoghill, Labbadish, Mondooey Lower, Mondooey Upper

Placenames

Drumcarn 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.