Magheradrumman
Magheradrumman is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Machaire Dromann.
Parcel 1421303
- Area
- 2,267 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Magheradrumman
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 133.8 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 65
- registered freehold, median 3,640 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Magheradrumman, from 27 m² to 305,863 m² (30.59 ha, 75.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Magheradrumman 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
12 Feb 2026Conditional
THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. T853/82: (1) 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO NORTH AND WEST, (2) CHANGE OF SEPTIC TANK LOCATION AND (3) CHANGE OF ACCESS DRIVEWAY
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660184
5 Feb 2026N/a
THE FOLLOWING WORKS TO EXISTING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. T853/82, (1) 2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO NORTH AND WEST, (2) CHANGE OF SEPTIC TANK LOCATION, (3) CHANGE OF ACCESS DRIVEWAY AND (4) REAR STORE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660141
2 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562120
6 Jun 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450152
12 Jul 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING WALLSTEADS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351020
4 Jul 2023N/a
UNAUTHORISED WORKS RELATING TO PLANNING PERMISSION 95/534 COMPRISING: (1) LOCATION OF DWELLING ON SITE CHANGED, (2) LOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE CHANGED, (3) RECONFIGURATION OF WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION, (4) DORMER WINDOWS NOT CONSTRUCTED, (5) RECONFIGURATION OF HEIGHT TO FRONT PROJECTION, (6) DOUBLE DOORS CONSTRUCTED INSTEAD OF BAY WINDOW, (7) RECONFIGURATION OF WINDOWS AND REAR DOOR TO REAR ELEVATION AND (8) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO BE DECOMMISSIONED AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT TANK AND PROVISION FOR A SECONDARY TREATMENT AND A POLISHING FILTER ARRANGEMENT
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350964
19 May 2023N/a
UNAUTHORISED WORKS RELATING TO PLANNING PERMISSION 95/534 COMPRISING: (1) LOCATION OF DWELLING ON SITE CHANGED, (2) LOCATION OF SITE ENTRANCE CHANGED, (3) RECONFIGURATION OF WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION, (4) DORMER WINDOWS NOT CONSTRUCTED, (5) RECONFIGURATION OF HEIGHT TO FRONT PROJECTION, (6) DOUBLE DOORS CONSTRUCTED INSTEAD OF BAY WINDOW, (7) RECONFIGURATION OF WINDOWS AND REAR DOOR TO REAR ELEVATION AND (8) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO BE DECOMMISSIONED AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350681
3 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350600
3 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH ON SITE SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051853
17 Dec 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951962
1 Jul 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PERCOLATION AREA AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950997
19 Jun 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM PERCOLATION AREA AND GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950929
12 Jan 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850017
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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
- Special Protection Area: Fanad Head SPA 004148
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Magheradrumman.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Magheradrumman.
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 Magheradrumman, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Magheradrumman.
- 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 Magheradrumman with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Magheradrumman · Machaire Dromann
- Area
- 1,337,534 m² (133.75 ha, 330.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymagahy Mountain, Cooladerry, Cooladerry Mountain, Kinnalough, Murren, Rinmore, Shannaghdoo
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Magheradrumman 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.