Drumnaskea

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnaskea, from 8 m² to 194,783 m² (19.48 ha, 48.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Drumnaskea 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 Aug 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. DWELLING HOUSES AND 2 NO. DOMESTIC GARAGES WITH INSTALLATION OF 2 NO. WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561490

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH INTEGRATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561378

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560020

• 12 Nov 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450244

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051973

• 1 Dec 2020N/a

  ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE RAISING THE RIDGE AND EAVES TO PROVIDE A STOREY AND A HALF TYPE DORMER HOUSE WITH CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051832

• 31 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951678

• 6 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751676

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 Drumnaskea.

Recorded monuments

• DG045-037 Standing stone
  Description

  Marked as 'Gallan (on its side)' on a 19th century geological map which may indicate the site of a recumbent standing stone. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: : 10 September 2010

Architectural heritage

• Castlegrove, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gates serving Castlegrove (see 40905409), erected c. 1863, comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having moulded cut stone coping over surmounted by sandstone ball finials, and having a pair of wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials over. Gateway flanked to either side (east and west) by quadrant sections of smooth rendered boundary wall with cut stone coping over, and having integral square-headed pedestrian entrances with wrought-iron gates with some surviving cast-iron finals over. Quadrant walls terminated by smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having flat cut stone coping over. Located to the west of Castlegrove and to the north-east of Letterkenny. Attendant gate lodge (see 40905391) adjacent to the south.

• Castlegrove, gate lodge, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge associated with Castlegrove (see 40905409), built c. 1863. Now in use as a private house with extension to the south-west. Hipped natural slate roof with moulded eaves course, shallow raised parapet, cast-iron rainwater goods, and central rendered chimneystack. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted limestone sills and with replacement windows. Central square-headed door opening replacement door. Located adjacent to main gateway (see 40905340) serving Castlegrove to the of main house and to the north-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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumnaskea

Area

1,347,319 m² (134.73 ha, 332.93 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboencurragh, Ballymaleel, Cashelshanaghan, Castlewray, Eighterross, Newtownfore

Placenames

Drumnaskea 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.