Drummenny Lower

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummenny Lower, from 32 m² to 185,288 m² (18.53 ha, 45.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Drummenny Lower 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.

• 24 Nov 2017Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO THE FACADE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION 04/868 AND (2) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS ERECTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751776

• 7 Feb 2017Conditional

  EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING TWO STOREY (DORMER STYLE) DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE FOR A TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR TO PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL BEDROOM AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND GROUND FLOOR LIVING ACCOMMODATION, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED PITCHED ROOF SINGLE STOREY GARAGE, TO INCLUDE ALL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DRAINAGE NETWORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750157

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163

Recorded monuments

• DG094-024 Habitation site
  Description

  Excavation Number 97E0356c. This site was revealed during the stripping of the topsoil for the Donegal Bypass. Initial assessment of the site revealed a possible hearth and areas of burning. Three main cuttings were opened. The site had been severely disturbed by tree roots, making the identification of archaeological features difficult. However, a linear feature, identified as a shallow ditch, ran in a north-west to south-east direction across the southern portion of the site. This feature was 1m wide and had a total length of 6.2m, with a depth of 0.55m. The fill of the ditch was completely sterile, with the exception of a piece of timber 0.6m long and supported at either end by a stone and a piece of wood, placed deliberately underneath the timber. To the east and west of the ditch was a series of stake-holes and small pits, 21 in all, possibly representing the remains of windbreaks, or a light wooden covering over a portion of the ditch. Several areas of charcoal were obvious to the immediate south-east of the ditch, and a small pit was revealed under one charcoal spread. Further to the north of the ditch a rough metalled surface was revealed measuring 2.2m x 2.6m. A hearth was revealed within the central area of Cutting 2, measuring 1.6m x 1.4m, consisting of a semicircle of stones, resting on a bed of charcoal and peaty soil. Three field drains were revealed in the northern section of the site running in a north-west to south-east direction and resting on the natural subsoil. It should be noted that the northern portion of the site was covered by peat before the excavation and that the whole site was extremely wet. Three phases of activity appear to be represented on the site. The earliest phase may be the large spreads of charcoal, associated with the linear feature, together with the stake-holes, pits and nearby metalled surface. These features appear to represent a possible semi-industrial or domestic activity. A second phase of activity appears to be represented by the hearth, which rests on a thin layer of peat, and the final phase appears to be the insertion of the three stone field drains. No dates have yet been ascertained for the site as radiocarbon dating is still being carried out, and no finds were recovered from the site; however, it may be possible to suggest that the differing periods of activity date from prehistoric up to post-medieval times. It is important to note that the above site is just one of over twenty, the majority prehistoric, revealed during the stripping of the topsoil for the Donegal Bypass. All of these sites are concentrated in an area of only 7km. (Excavations Bulletin 1998) Sylvia Desmond, 25 Rowan Hall, Millbrook Court, Milltown, Dublin 6.

• DG094-025 Habitation site
  Description

  Excavation licence number 97E0441. This site was revealed during the stripping of the topsoil for the Donegal Bypass during 1997 and had extensive areas of burning and charcoal spreads. Three cuttings, each 9m x 8m, were opened. All of the topsoil had been removed by machine, revealing three main features on the site. Feature 1 was a rectangular feature, 1.65m north-south by 2.5m. It was delimited for the most part by a band of burnt, red subsoil 0.1m wide and 0.05m deep, with a high concentration of carbonised wood at the eastern end. It appears that the pieces of wood were laid down deliberately in an overlapping manner. Patches of burnt, red soil and high concentrations of charcoal, together with carbonised wood, constituted the fill of this feature. The red soil appears to be the natural subsoil, burnt red by the intense heat. A piece of unburned chert was recovered from this feature. During the initial discovery of the site fragments of bone (possibly human) and a struck flint were also recovered from this feature. Feature 2 consists of a charcoal spread, 1.8m x 2.2m, c. 3m to the south of the above feature. Patches of burnt subsoil, evidence of intense heat, were also revealed within this spread. When the spread was removed a linear feature was revealed, running north-south for 2.5m, with a width of 0.2m and a depth of 0.8m. Feature 3 was very similar, consisting of a linear cut 2.5m long and 0.5m wide and situated to the immediate south of Feature 2. Only 0.7m separated the two features. The redeposited fill of both features consisted of a grey, marl-like clay, with charcoal flecks, distributed throughout. Feature 1 appears to be the most significant on the site. The very shape and size, together with the presence of burnt, red soil and wood, when combined with the burnt bone (possibly human) and struck flint and chert suggest that it may be a possible cremation pyre, but this has yet to be confirmed. 14C dating is currently being undertaken, but it may date to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Features 2 and 3 are rather enigmatic. Whether they had any connection with the possible cremation pyre is uncertain, and the absence of any finds makes it difficult to suggest a purpose or date for them. However, dates may be forthcoming from charcoal samples. Like Site 9 (No. 106 above), this site lies within an area of intense prehistoric activity, all revealed during the monitoring of the Donegal Bypass. Both of the above sites are in close proximity to a Neolithic house/structure, a fulacht fiadh, a large wetland site and Drumrat Court Tomb. Many of these sites may be interrelated in time and space, and they appear to form part of a rich and diverse archaeological landscape. (Excavations Bulletin 1997) Sylvia Desmond, 25 Rowan Hall, Millbrook Court, Milltown, Dublin 6.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, having two-bay two-storey outbuilding attached to the west gable end under the same roofline. Now out of use. Pitched natural slate roof (large slates to ridge, smaller slates to eaves) with ridge tiles, projecting rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and three rendered chimneystacks (one to either end of former dwelling and one to the west gable end). Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls having smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to the first floor opening of dwelling and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows at ground floor level having exposed sash boxes. Central square-headed doorway opening to former dwelling having replacement timber door and with flight of steps. Square-headed carriage-arch and square-headed doorway to attached outbuilding having battened timber doors and double-doors. Set back from road in own grounds to the east/south-east of Donegal Town. Approach avenue to house from road to the south. Two-storey outbuilding to the west, built c. 1820 and possibly a former dwelling to site, having pitched natural slate roof, coursed squared masonry with flush roughly dressed squared stone quoins to the corners, square-headed window openings with timber sliding sash windows at first floor level, and square-headed doorways at ground floor level having remains of timber fittings. Flight of stone steps (external) to the east gable end of outbuilding, giving access to square-headed doorway at first floor level having timber battened door. Single-storey outbuilding attached to the west end of outbuilding having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Farmyard/yard to the front of former dwelling (south) with modern corrugated-metal hayshed to the west.

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

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 low, low, low (inferred). Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1450 (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.

No address of the register names Drummenny Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drummenny Lower

Area

663,780 m² (66.38 ha, 164.02 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Tullynaught, the unit of the census

Census 2022

657 people lived in 206 households in the Tullynaught electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardeskin, Brookfield, Clarcarricknagun, Drummenny Middle, Drumrat, Tully

Placenames

Drummenny Lower 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.