Drumhallagh Lower

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumhallagh Lower, from 200 m² to 73,270 m² (7.33 ha, 18.11 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 Drumhallagh Lower 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.

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  EXISTING GROUND FLOOR SLIDING DOORS ON BEDROOM OF FRONT ELEVATION, CONSERVATORY ON FIRST FLOOR FROM OPEN PLAN TO SEALED IN AREA (17.31M2) AND ALTERATIONS TO SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS FROM DOORS TO WINDOWS FROM THAT SHOWN ON ORIGINAL PLANNING REF. NO. 05/7322

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450154

• 11 Jun 2024Conditional

  EXISTING PORCH AND WINDOWS ON FRONT ELEVATION AND ALTERATIONS TO SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS FROM DOORS TO WINDOWS AND WINDOWS TO DOORS FROM THAT SHOWN ON ORIGINAL PLANNING REF. NO. 05/7322

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450155

• 4 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ALL WEATHER SPORTS PITCH MEASURING 54M X 26M LOCATED ON THE EXISTING TRAINING AREA OF THE FOOTBALL PITCH, ASSOCIATED FENCING, UPGRADING OF EXISTING FLOODLIGHTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351318

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051929

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166

Recorded monuments

• DG028-018001 Cross-slab
  Description

  The cross slab (DG028-018001-) marked as a standing stone on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is 1.2m high .65m wide at the base, .7m just above half way where there are slight arms and 0.57m at the top. It is .17m thick and orientated almost N-S. Both faces are decorated. The E face has an interlaced cross, two standing ecclesiastics, with croziers, under the cross arms and above the arms two squatting figures. The W has a cross decorated with circle and boss motifs. The cross stands on a low grassed-over stony platform. 2m SSE of the cross is a rectangular stone .6m × 0.66m × 0.17m: Towards: one end is a depression .23m in diameter .09m in depth. The cross and stone stand in a corner of good level land. There is a local tradition that a church (DG028-018004-) once stood here. (Henry 1965, 123-25) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG028-018002 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.

• DG028-018003 Enclosure
  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.

• DG028-018004 Church
  Description

  The cross slab (DG028-018001-) marked as a standing stone on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is 1.2m high .65m wide at the base, .7m just above half way where there are slight arms and 0.57m at the top. It is .17m thick and orientated almost N-S. Both faces are decorated. The E face has an interlaced cross, two standing ecclesiastics, with croziers, under the cross arms and above the arms two squatting figures. The W has a cross decorated with circle and boss motifs. The cross stands on a low grassed-over stony platform. 2m SSE of the cross is a rectangular stone .6m × 0.66m × 0.17m: Towards: one end is a depression .23m in diameter .09m in depth. The cross and stone stand in a corner of good level land. There is a local tradition that a church (DG028-018004-) once stood here. (Henry 1965, 123-25) The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumhallagh Lower.

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 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 Drumhallagh Lower.

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

Name

Drumhallagh Lower

Area

620,903 m² (62.09 ha, 153.43 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Killygarvan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killygarvan electoral division: 120 people in 45 households; 93% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bin, Clondallan, Drumhallagh Upper, Killycolman, Lehardan, Newtown Carradoan, Saltpans

Placenames

Drumhallagh Lower 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.