Dunmore
Dunmore is a townland in the civil parish of Templecrone, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is An Dún Mór.
Parcel 1395104
- Area
- 39,253 m² (3.93 ha, 9.7 acres)
- Buildings
- 4 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 291 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Dunmore
Planning applications on this parcel
14 Apr 2026Conditional
RENOVATION / EXTENSION AND RE-ROOFING OF THE OLD FAMILY HOME WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2650055
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 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_1225 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 59.4 ha
- 147 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 2,577 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunmore, from 59 m² to 104,118 m² (10.41 ha, 25.73 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dunmore 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Sept 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661761
14 Apr 2026Conditional
RENOVATION / EXTENSION AND RE-ROOFING OF THE OLD FAMILY HOME WITH ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2650055
16 Jun 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561008
10 Jun 2025N/a
ERECTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560960
22 Nov 2023Conditional
(1) CONVERSION OF THE ROOF SPACE TO DWELLING HOUSE INTO ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING A GABLE WINDOW AND ROOF-LIGHT WINDOWS, (2) REVISED SITE ENTRANCE ROAD, AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351775
19 Oct 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AN INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351591
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Gweedore Bay and Islands SAC 001141
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gweedore Bay And Islands 001141
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Dunmore.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunmore.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Dunmore, about 1 in 5 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_1225 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Dunmore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Dunmore · An Dún Mór
- Area
- 594,463 m² (59.45 ha, 146.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templecrone, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Annagary, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,274 people lived in 902 households in the Annagary electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carnboy, Carrickfin
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Dunmore 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.