Drumard

83 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumard, from 25 m² to 101,399 m² (10.14 ha, 25.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Drumard 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.

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INCREASED RIDGE HEIGHT AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562071

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460980

• 3 Oct 2022Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND DOMESTIC STORE AND CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO DWELLINGS WITH INDIVIDUAL EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNITS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251643

• 31 Jul 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF GROUND FLOOR KITCHEN AND LIVING TO A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXISTING PUBLIC BAR AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051038

• 24 May 2020N/a

  FIRST FLOOR APARTMENT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF THE GROUND FLOOR KITCHEN AND LIVING TO A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXISTING PUBLIC BAR

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050637

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 Drumard.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumard.

Architectural heritage

• St. Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church on T-shape plan, built c. 1830 and heavily altered and extended c. 1892, comprising single-bay nave to the south-east (added c. 1892), transepts to the north-east and south-west, and having three-stage tower (on square-plan) to the north-east gable end (added c. 1892) having gabled parapets over to each face and with moulded finials to corners. Single-bay gable-fronted entrance porch to the south-west gable end of transept to the south-west, added c. 1892. Altered c. 1990. Single-storey sacristy extension attached to the north-west corner of transept to the south-west, single-storey addition attached to the south-east end of nave, and single-storey outbuilding/boiler shed attached to the south-west gable end of transept to the south-west. Pitched replacement artificial slate roofs (fibre cement) with projecting eaves course, raised rendered verges to gable ends of transepts and nave having kneeler stones at eaves level and with Celtic cross finials to gable apex to south-east end of nave and to the south-west transept. Roughcast rendered painted walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course to nave and transepts with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Snecked rock-faced sandstone constructions to tower having flush dressed ashlar sandstone quoins to the corners, chamfered ashlar plinth to base, and with moulded sandstone stringcourses delineating stages. Feathered ashlar sandstone coping over gabled parapets to tower with cut stone Celtic cross finial over gable apex to the north-east and with moulded fluer-de-lys finials to gable apexes to other faces, and having moulded pinnacles to corners. Cut sandstone date plaque to the north-east face of tower at second stage level having quatrefoil motif with central shield dated ‘1892’; cut sandstone trefoil motif to gabled parapet to the north-east having ‘dove of peace’ motif in bas relief. Pointed-arch window openings to nave and transepts having rendered reveals, stone sills, and replacement windows. Paired pointed-arched window opening to north-east face of tower at ground floor/first stage level having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround and sill, rock-faced sandstone relieving arch over, leaded pictorial stained glass windows, and having cut stone hoodmoulding over with decorative label stops. Pointed-arch window opening to south-east face of tower at second stage level having chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds, and with leaded stained glass window. Shallow pointed arched openings to tower at belfry/third stage level having chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds, and timber louvered fittings. Shouldered doorway to the south-east face of tower having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround replacement timber double-doors, and with plain overlight. Open timber (pitch pine) kingpost roof structure to interior; gallery to the south-east end of nave having timber stairs and open timber balustrade. North-west wall of nave supported on two Doric columns. Timber panelled reredos to altar with pilasters and entablature. Church set back from road in own grounds at a corner site to the centre of the village of Frosses and to the north-west of Mountcharles. Graveyard to the south and to the west containing mainly twentieth century gravemarkers. Graveyard to the south-west contains four Celtic cross-style memorials to former parish priests. Modern gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers. Site bounded to the south and the east by rendered boundary walls. Rubble stone boundary wall to graveyard to the south.

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 Drumard, 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 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 Drumard.

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.

• Drumard, Malin5 sales

Name

Drumard

Area

1,029,676 m² (102.97 ha, 254.44 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Eanymore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

547 people lived in 225 households in the Eanymore electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrollaghan, Derryhirk, Drumatumpher, Drumbaran, Gargrim, Roes

Placenames

Drumard 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.