Drumstevlin

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumstevlin, from 47 m² to 158,904 m² (15.89 ha, 39.27 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 Drumstevlin 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.

• 28 Jun 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED 2 STOREY PITCHED ROOF GARAGE AND HOME OFFICE, WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE USE AT GROUND LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE USE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL WITH EXTERNAL STAIR ACCESS TO THE FIRST FLOOR, ALL ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING, (2) ALL SERVICES, DRAINAGE, ROADWAY AND HARDSTANDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460974

• 21 Jun 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED TWO STOREY PITCHED ROOF GARAGE AND HOME OFFICE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE USE AT GROUND LEVEL AND HOME OFFICE USE AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL WITH EXTERNAL STAIR ACCESS TO THE FIRST FLOOR, ALL ANCILLARY TO THE USE OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC DWELLING, (2) ALL SERVICES, DRAINAGE, ROADWAY AND HARDSTANDING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460938

• 25 Feb 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WILL INCORPORATE AN ON-SITE WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460208

• 30 Aug 2023Conditional

  EXISTING TEAROOM AND PERMISSION FOR (A) INTERNAL RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING BUILDING AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW CLADDING TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SOUTH-WEST OF EXISTING BUILDING, TO INCLUDE RETAIL SPACE, STORAGE, COVERED DISPLAY AREA, OUTDOOR DISPLAY WITH CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA AND SIGNAGE, (C) UPGRADING AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING CAR PARK, (D) ERECTION OF 3 NO. POLYTUNNELS TO NORTH-WEST OF CAR PARK, (E) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351295

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 Drumstevlin.

Recorded monuments

• DG093-007 Enclosure
  Description

  No trace of the single-ringed enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map survives. The topography on the crest of a NE-SW ridge in rough grazing with good soil cover suggests an earthen enclosure. 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

• DG093-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m. A circular area enclosed by a large earthen bank up to .95m in height. There are traces of a fosse on the N and NE sectors. To the NE is a break in the bank, 2.5m in width, with the sides stone-lined. The interior is level but waterlogged. It is situated on a terrace on the crest of a low hill overlooking Donegal Bay surrounded by fairly good pasture. 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

Architectural heritage

• Drumark Hill, worker's house, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey former railway crossing guards house, built c. 1893, having projecting gable-ended porch to the south gable end, single-bay shed/extension attached to the north gable end. Now in use as a private house/holiday home. Pitched natural slate roofs with red clay ridge tiles, some cast-iron/metal rainwater goods, and a central red brick chimneystack. Constructed of roughly squared and irregularly-coursed rock-faced masonry, now painted/whitewashed with pronounced rock-faced quoins to the corners. Square-headed window openings having two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows and stone sills. Square-headed door opening to the east face of porch having painted timber panelled door. Set slightly back from road to the west/north-west of Donegal Town. Site of former railway line runs across site 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 Drumstevlin, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1415 (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 Drumstevlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumstevlin

Area

626,121 m² (62.61 ha, 154.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killymard, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Donegal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydevitt, Drumark, Drumkeeghan

Placenames

Drumstevlin 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.