Drumineney

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumineney, from 330 m² to 128,415 m² (12.84 ha, 31.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Drumineney 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.

• 29 Jan 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE, ADDITION OF STONE CLADDING TO THE FRONT PORCH, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660122

• 13 Jan 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO 1 NO. LOOSE DRY SOW HOUSE (PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 13/50221, NOT COMPLETED) (2) DEMOLITION / REMOVAL OF EXISTING OFFICE AND CONSTRUCTION OF 1 NO. REPLACEMENT OFFICE AND ADJOINING / INTEGRATED STORAGE SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS (TO INCLUDE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA) ARISING FROM THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ON EXISTING PIG FARM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250018

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF BALL-STOP FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151280

• 5 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING PITCH PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244 (2) ERECTION OF (A) BALL-STOPPING FENCING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244 (B) ADDITIONAL BALL-STOPPING FENCING (C) FLOODLIGHTING (3) COMPLETION OF SITEWORKS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 15/50244

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150401

• 25 Aug 2020Conditional

  1 NO. PIG HOUSE (COMPLETED IN LIEU OF 1 NO. PIG HOUSE REF NO. 9, PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. 1350221) AND PERMISSION FOR COMPLETION/CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SAME TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY STRUCTURES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ARISING FROM THE ABOVE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, ON EXISTING PIG FARM SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051158

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  RELOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 15/50244 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050416

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 Drumineney.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-024 Standing stone
  Description

  A quartz standing stone, triangular in plan and c. 1m high x.5m wide at base. Situated on good land with extensive views, on the NW slope of Beltany Hill below the stone circle (326). 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

• Drumineney House, house, 1780–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having full-height two-storey canted bay windows to either end of the main elevation (east), and incorporating earlier two-storey house, c. 1800, to the rear (west) having single-storey extension to the south. Hipped natural slate roof to entrance front having projecting overhanging eaves, bracketed eaves course, profiled cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative cast-iron fleur-de-lys gutter guards, and with a central pair of rendered chimneystacks having cornice coping and terracotta pots over. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls to entrance block having smooth rendered block quoins to the corners, continuous moulded sill course at first floor level, and with smooth rendered stringcourses and decorative stucco panels with circular/ocular motifs over ground openings to canted bays. Square-headed window openings at ground floor level and segmental-headed window openings at first floor level having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows; continuous sills to canted bay at ground floor level. Central segmental-headed doorway to main block having timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, timber pilasters with console brackets over supporting moulded timber lintel, sidelights and overlight, and with rendered architraved surround. Pitched artificial slate roof to earlier block to rear having rendered chimneystacks, roughcast rendered walls, and with square-headed openings. Detached multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to the west, built c. 1870 and possibly containing earlier fabric c. 1800, having pitched slate roofs and rubble stone walls, and square- and segmental-headed openings with brick dressings. Set back from road in extensive mature landscaped grounds in the rural countryside to the south of Raphoe. Modern gateway to the 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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Drumineney, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1835 (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 Drumineney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumineney

Area

376,088 m² (37.61 ha, 92.93 acres)

Civil parish

Raphoe, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Raphoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,521 people lived in 591 households in the Raphoe electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Beltany, Cooladerry, Milltown, Newrow, Tops, Tops Demesne, Tullyvinny

Placenames

Drumineney 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.