Drumboe Upper

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboe Upper, from 86 m² to 104,272 m² (10.43 ha, 25.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Drumboe Upper 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.

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) BEDROOM WITH EN-SUITE ROOM AND BAY-WINDOW BUILT TO THE SOUTH GABLE SIDE, (2) INTEGRATED DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILT TO THE NORTH GABLE SIDE, (3) SUN ROOM BUILT TO THE EAST SIDE BEING THE FRONT ELEVATION, (4) SHOWER ROOM BUILT TO THE SOUTH SIDE BEING THE REAR ELEVATION AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561555

• 24 May 2021Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC SPACE INTO USABLE FLOOR AREA (2) POLYTUNNEL AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151006

• 26 May 2020Unconditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DILAPIDATED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050672

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 Drumboe Upper.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumboe Upper.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1780, having canted windbreak porch to the south-west end of the front elevation (south-east), bed out-shot to the rear (north-west), single-bay two-bay byre\outbuilding attached to the north-east gable end with water trough projection, and with two single-storey outbuildings to the south-west. Section of rubble stone walling adjacent to porch. House now out of use. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised whitewashed rendered verges to the gable ends (rubble stone to the north-east gable end), some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods, and with two rendered chimneystacks (one to the north-west gable end and one to the centre. Formerly thatched. Whitewashed rubble stone walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with cut stone sills and with eight-over-eight and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to front face of canted porch having plinth blocks and battened timber door. Attached two-bay single-storey outbuilding to the north-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed doorway with battened timber door, and with square-headed carriage-arch having corrugated-metal gate. Attached single-bay single-storey outbuilding to the south-west gable end having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed carriage-arch with sliding corrugated-metal double gates; attached four-bay single-storey outbuilding to the extreme south-west having pitched natural slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings with timber fittings. Set back from road in own grounds with yard to the front (south-east) and with later three-bay two-storey house adjacent to the south. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Stranorlar. Wrought-iron flat-bar gates to 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 Drumboe Upper, 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 Drumboe Upper.

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

Name

Drumboe Upper · Droim Bó Uachtarach

Area

679,349 m² (67.93 ha, 167.87 acres)

Civil parish

Stranorlar, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Stranorlar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Backlees, Ballynaglack, Drumboe Lower, Dunwiley, Greenhills, Magherapaste

Placenames

Drumboe Upper 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.