Drummenny Middle

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummenny Middle, from 3,277 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres) to 92,851 m² (9.29 ha, 22.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Drummenny Middle 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Drummenny Middle 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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drummenny Middle.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860. Pitched natural slate roof having terracotta ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered ruled-and-line chimneystacks to the gable ends (south-west and north-east). Roughcast rendered walls to the main elevation (south-east) having smooth rendered plinth to base and smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Roughcast rendered walls to the rear over rubble stone construction. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings having stone sills, and with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows; plain rendered surrounds to window openings to the front elevation. Square-headed doorway, offset slightly to the south-west of centre, having plain rendered surround, plinth blocks to base, replacement battened timber doors, and with plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Donegal Town centre. Gravel yards to the front and rear; mature gardens to site with mature cypress trees, rhododendrons and hydrangea. Short gravel approach avenue to house from road to the south. Single-storey outbuildings to the rear of site (north) having pitched corrugated-metal roofs, whitewashed rubble stone wall, and square-headed doorways.

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 Drummenny Middle, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1450 (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.

No address of the register names Drummenny Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drummenny Middle

Area

624,600 m² (62.46 ha, 154.34 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tullynaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clarcarricknagun, Craigroe, Drumcroagh, Drummenny Lower, Drummenny Upper, Drumnahoul, Tully

Placenames

Drummenny Middle 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.