Dromore Big

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore Big, from 25 m² to 305,770 m² (30.58 ha, 75.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Dromore Big 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.

• 14 Mar 2024Conditional

  (1) AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460335

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951108

• 30 May 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENTT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950806

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 Dromore Big.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dromore Big.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dromore Big.

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 Dromore Big, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Dromore Big

Area

1,049,534 m² (104.95 ha, 259.35 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyholey Near, Carnshannagh, Carrickadawson, Dromore Little, Drumbeg, Magheestown, Magherasollus, Oakfield Demesne, Slievebuck

Placenames

Dromore Big 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.