Drumboe Lower

267 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumboe Lower, from 12 m² to 210,972 m² (21.1 ha, 52.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Drumboe 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.

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERATION AND EXTENSION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AT BOTH GROUND AND FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO WINDOWS, EXTERNAL ELEVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660860

• 5 Mar 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660347

• 7 Jul 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND (2) A NEW ROOF TO CREATE NEW ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561155

• 27 May 2024Conditional

  ROOFED CATTLE HOLDING PEN AND CATTLE CRUSH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460769

• 23 May 2024N/a

  ROOFED CATTLE HOLDING PEN AND CATTLE CRUSH

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460750

• 8 Apr 2024Conditional

  PROVISION OF FLOOD LIGHTING TO THE EXISTING GRASS SPORTS PITCH WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE ERECTION OF 6 NO. 12M HIGH LIGHTING POLES WITH ASSOCIATED POWER DISTRIBUTION DUCTING, SWITCHGEAR AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460474

• 22 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING A DINING AREA, OFFICE SPACE AND EN-SUITE BEDROOM AND (B) A DETACHED GAMES ROOM WITHIN THE REAR GARDEN AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351418

• 7 Apr 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF PART OF EXISTING BUILDINGS AND EXISTING PREFABRICATED STRUCTURES TOTALLING 3,510 SQ METRES, THE REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING RETAINED BUILDING OF 3464 SQ METRES (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION BLOCK OF 7024 SQ METRES CONSISTING OF A NEW MAIN ENTRANCE; 8 NO. GENERAL CLASSROOMS, 18 NO. SPECIALIST CLASSROOMS AND ASSOCIATED PREPARATION AREAS; GENERAL PURPOSE ROOM AND ANCILLARIES; MULTI-USE (PE) HALL AND ANCILLARY SPACES, SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION SUITE, LIBRARY, STAFF ROOM; ADMINISTRATIVE SPACES; TOILETS; STORES; PLANT ROOMS; CIRCULATION; EXTERNAL STORE AND COVERED YARD. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS; REALIGNMENT AND RESURFACING OF EXISITNG DRIVEWAY SET DOWN AND STAFF/VISITOR PARKING AREAS, NEW ACCESS ROAD, NEW COURTYARDS AND PEDESTRIAN PATHS, PROVISION OF BUS TURNING BAY; NEW EXTERNAL PLAY AREAS; NEW HARD AND SOFT LANDSCAPING; NEW SITE BOUNDARIES FENCING AND GATES; UPGRADING AND REROUTING OF OVERHEAD AND UNDERGROUND SERVICES CONNECTED TO PUBLIC NETWORKS, STORM ATTENUATION AND RAIN HARVESTING, NEW PUBLIC LIGHTING AND SIGNAGE (3) ERECTION OF TEMPORARY CLASSROOM ACCOMMODATION OF 130 SQ METRES TO BE LOCATED ON SITE FOR THE DURATION OF WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250598

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH EAST SIDE OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL CONTAINING A 3-CLASSROOM ASD UNIT, WITH ASSOCIATED ACTIVITY, SENSORY, LIVING SKILLS & CENTRAL ACTIVITIES ROOMS AND SANITARY FACILITIES AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL AND 3 GENERAL CLASS ROOMS AND 2 SET ROOMS ON FIRST FLOOR WITH A PROPOSED BASEMENT LEVEL EXTERNAL EQUIPMENT STORE AT THE LEVEL OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL PITCHES AT THE SOUTH OF THE EXTENSION, INCLUDING THE INSTALLATION OF ROOF MOUNTED PV PANELS (2) CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE SYSTEMS ON SITE AND ADAPTATION OF THE EXISTING STORM WATER ATTENUATION TANK (3) FORMATION OF A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION ACCESS TO THE SITE FROM DRUMBOE LOWER, ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE SITE FOR THE DURATION OF CONSTRUCTION ONLY (4) DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXTENSION TO THE CARPARK AREA TO PROVIDE 9 FURTHER CARPARKING SPACES (INCLUDING AN EV CHARGING POINT) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250275

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE FORMER CLUBHOUSE BUILDING INTO OFFICE USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONSULTANT ENGINEERING PRACTICE. WORKS TO INCLUDE RENOVATIONS INTERNALLY & EXTERNALLY INCLUDING ON SITE PARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152208

• 3 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151546

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150344

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SAND POLISHING FILTER TO SERVICE DWELLING HOUSE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 18/51290 IN LIEU OF CONNECTION INTO PUBLIC FOUL SEWER

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150331

• 21 Dec 2020N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO A MAINS SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052002

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER CLUBHOUSE BUILDING TO USE AS A DWELLING HOUSE. PROPOSED WORKS INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051997

• 6 Nov 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER CLUBHOUSE BUILDING TO USE AS A DWELLING HOUSE. PROPOSED WORKS INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051670

• 23 Sept 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER CLUBHOUSE BUILDING TO USE AS A DWELLING HOUSE. PROPOSED WORKS INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING ROAD AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051350

• 31 Jul 2020Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051043

• 29 Jun 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED STORE AND OUTBUILDINGS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAIN SEWER (3) CLOSE EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND PROVIDE A REPLACEMENT/RELOCATED ENTRANCE TO THE NORTH WESTERN SIDE OF THE PROPERTY AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. THE PROPOSAL WILL REQUIRE THE CARRYING OUT OF WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE; RPS REG NUMBER 40838025

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050839

• 27 May 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF 2 NO. PREFABRICATED PORTACABINS TO PROVIDE 4 NO. ADDITIONAL CLASSROOMS FOR FINN VALLEY COLLEGE AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING FENCING AROUND HARD SURFACE COURTS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050687

• 25 Mar 2020Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING COMMERCIAL UNIT TO USE AS A CHILDCARE FACILITY, SIGNAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050407

• 24 Mar 2020Conditional

  RENOVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050381

• 22 May 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DETACHED STRUCTURE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO EXISTING CHILDCARE FACILITY KNOWN AS TINY TOTS PLAYGROUP

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950751

• 10 Sept 2018Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO SERVICE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851397

• 22 Aug 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC MAIN SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851290

The 25 most recent of 35 applications.

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG078-005 Church
  Description

  Traditionally believed to be the site of an 'Abbey' and marked as the site of a church on the OS 6-inch maps, there are no traces of any antiquity. The site is located in the valley of the River Finn in excellent but now wooded land. 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

• DG078-014 House - 17th century
  Description

  It is represented as a substantial dwelling with garden and outbuildings to the west on the OS 1st ed. map (surveyed 1836). It is there named 'Drumboe Castle' but not in the standard OS typeface indicating an antiquity. This residence was described in Lewis, Topographical Dictionary (1837), under Stranalor as 'Drumboe Castle, the residence of Sir E. Hayes, Bart., M.P., situated on a pretty lawn in the centre of an improved demesne . . .' It would appear not to have been included in Donegal Survey (1983) because there was no substantive evidence, other than the name, that the building pre-dated 1700 AD (the cut-off point for the Survey). By way of post-script this would appear to be the Drumboe Castle where, on 14 March 1923, four anti-Treaty members of the IRA who had been captured on 2 November 1922, were summarily shot and their bodies buried there. Their remains were secretly exhumed and transferred to the Athlone Military Barracks in August or September 1924. This is the subject of a song 'The Drumboe Martyrs'. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of revised upload: 19 July 2010

Architectural heritage

• Drumboe Martyrs Memorial, monument, 1950–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding memorial monument, erected c. 1958, comprising ashlar limestone Celtic high cross-style monument with Celtic interlacing motifs to front face (south) set on two-stage ashlar limestone plinth (on square-plan). Incised lettering to front face (south) of plinth reading ‘IN PROUD AND GLORIOUS MEMORY OF THE DRUMBOE MARTYRS, COMDT GEN CHARLES DALY, BRIGD COMDT SEAN LARKIN, LIEUT DANIEL ENRIGHT AND LIEUT TIMOTHY O SULLIVAN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE DEFENCE OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC AT THIS SPOT ON THE 14TH MARCH 1923’. Incised lettering to base\lower plinth inscribed ‘ERECTED BY THE CO.DONEGAL MARTYRS COMMITTEE’. Site enclosed by rendered boundary wall (on sub rectangular-plan); modern mild steel\iron gate to the south-west corner of site. Flight of concrete steps from gateway to monument, series of three metal flagpoles to the rear (north) of site. Located in the rural countryside on a sloping site in pasture land to the north-west of the centre of Ballybofey; set within the former demesne of Drumboe Castle (demolished c. 1945), to the north of the site of the house. Site overlooks the River Finn to the south.

• Outbuilding, coach house, 1750–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Remains of detached multiple-bay three-storey former outbuilding and coach house associated with Drumboe Castle (now demolished, 1945), built c. 1770. Two-storey elevation to the north. Now out of use and derelict. Remains of pitched natural slate roof having projecting cut stone eaves course, and red brick chimneystack. Remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls with remains of roughcast lime render over; flush quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings, some now infilled with rubble stone masonry, having roughly dressed voussoirs and cut stone sills; fittings now gone. Square-headed doorways with roughly dressed voussoirs and with stone plinth blocks to some openings; fittings now gone. Round-headed integral carriage-arches having rubble stone voussoirs over. Located to the west of the site of Drumboe Castle overlooking River Finn to the south, and to the north-west of the centre of Ballybofey. Former walled garden (on rectangular-plan) adjacent to the north having tall rubble stone boundary walls. Remains of other rubble stone structures to site.

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 Drumboe Lower, 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. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drumboe Lower · Droim Bó Íochtarach

Area

1,676,542 m² (167.65 ha, 414.28 acres)

Civil parish

Stranorlar, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Stranorlar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,706 people lived in 1,787 households in the Stranorlar electoral division. 61% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghasheil, Ballybofey, Ballynaglack, Cappry, Creggan, Drumboe Upper, Greenhills, Ironworks, Magherapaste, Stranorlar

Placenames

Drumboe 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.