Drumnacross

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnacross, from 55 m² to 233,325 m² (23.33 ha, 57.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Drumnacross 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.

• 21 May 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF AN ACCESSIBLE BEDROOM AND EN-SUITE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STORAGE SHED TO SIDE ELEVATION OF HOUSE AND (3) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND REBUILD OF ADDITIONAL SHED TO ACCOMMODATE NEW EXTENSION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660925

• 9 Aug 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461225

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  REFURBISHMENT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING 38K V OVERHEAD LINE (C. 7.4KM) FROM THE EXISTING BINBANE 110K V SUBSTATION TO THE EXISTING GLENTIES 38K V SUBSTATION KILRAINE GLENTIES. THE LINE CROSSES THE TOWNLANDS OF MEENACAHAN, MEENTANAKILL, TULLYNAGLAGGAN, TULLYHONWAR, DRUMNACROSS AND KILREAN UPPER. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051388

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 Drumnacross.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnacross.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Drumnacross, 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 high, 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 Drumnacross.

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

Name

Drumnacross

Area

1,285,241 m² (128.52 ha, 317.59 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Ardara, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,280 people lived in 509 households in the Ardara electoral division. 65% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corraness Glebe, Kilrean Lower, Kilrean Upper, Strawoaghter Glebe, Tullyhonwar

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Drumnacross 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.