Drumenan

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumenan, from 126 m² to 263,715 m² (26.37 ha, 65.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Drumenan 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.

• 30 Apr 2026Conditional

  PORCH EXTENSION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660763

• 29 Apr 2026N/a

  PORCH EXTENSION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660751

• 20 Apr 2026N/a

  PORCH EXTENSION

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660678

• 19 Mar 2025Conditional

  BASEMENT AND REAR EXTENSION AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND (2) TEMPORARY PERMISSION FOR A MOBILE HOME

  Retention, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2560387

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950880

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  (A) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDES AND REAR ELEVATIONS AND (B) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850536

• 6 Feb 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC, BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850132

• 22 May 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, WITH DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE/STORE, SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750774

• 7 Mar 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, WITH DETACHED TWO CAR GARAGE/STORE, SEPTIC TANK WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ASSOCIATED PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750335

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 Drumenan.

Recorded monuments

• DG063-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  An aerial photograph (St. Joseph, AVR 62) indicates half of a circular cropmark, c. 25m-50m in diameter here. This enclosure seems to have been located to one end of a larger oval enclosure half of which is also indicated. The site which is located in generally good land overlooking Lough Foyle to the E was not inspected. 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

• DG063-007 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no sign of the 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated in very good land with extensive views over the Foyle Valley. 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

• DG063-008 Souterrain
  Description

  Some local reports indicate a souterrain in this area but we were not able to locate it on this occasion. 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 Drumenan.

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 Drumenan, 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

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

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

Name

Drumenan

Area

1,216,441 m² (121.64 ha, 300.59 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

St. Johnstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,396 people lived in 537 households in the St. Johnstown electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burnthaw, Castletown, Gillystown, Legnatraw, Moness, Saintjohnstown, Tullyowen, Whitehill

Placenames

Drumenan 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.