Drumalough or Lough Hill
Drumalough or Lough Hill is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Droim an Locha.
Parcel 1331611
- Area
- 125 m²
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Drumalough or Lough Hill
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
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 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1125 (ZIP).
- 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.
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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
- 67.4 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 4,545 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumalough or Lough Hill, from 249 m² to 298,060 m² (29.81 ha, 73.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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 Drumalough or Lough Hill 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
10 Nov 2025Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561951
25 Jan 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AGRICULTURAL SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF:17/50358. THE PROPOSED EXTENSION SHALL INCORPORATE AN UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT STORAGE TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950060
19 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF AGRICULTURAL SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/50358 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851435
8 Mar 2017Conditional
COMPLETION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750358
10 Feb 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750174
10 Feb 2017N/a
RETENTION OF EXISTING CONCRETE BASE AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750182
24 Jan 2017N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750097
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay SAC 000190
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slieve Tooey/Tormore Island/Loughros Beg Bay 000190
Recorded monuments
- DG073-027 Bullaun stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- DG073-052 Bullaun stone
Description
Situated on SE facing slope of rock outcrop in an are of poorly drained land immmediately to N of newly constructed silage pit. Natural rock outcrop with single bowl (diam. 0.3m ; D 0.3-0.45m) that is very circular and deep and has been well worked into the surface of the rock outcrop. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 19 July 2010
Architectural heritage
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having recent single-storey extension to north separated by glazed link. Pitched straw-thatched roof, wired and secured to stone pegs to eaves and gables, and having two rendered chimneystacks; pitched slate roof to extension. Lime-rendered rubble stone walls, having square-headed openings with painted stone sills, replacement timber casement windows and replacement timber battened door. Single-storey rubble stone outbuilding at right angle to east.
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 Drumalough or Lough Hill, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1125 (ZIP).
- 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
No address of the register names Drumalough or Lough Hill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumalough or Lough Hill · Droim an Locha
- Area
- 674,288 m² (67.43 ha, 166.62 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Glengesh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 694 people lived in 263 households in the Glengesh electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellaganny, Crannogeboy, Longfield, Shanaghan
- Placenames
- Drumalough or Lough Hill 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.