Drumgumberland

Area

202,510 m² (20.25 ha, 50.04 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

Drumgumberland

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

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 4 recorded monuments.

• DG069-022001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps show this single-ringed 'Fort' to the E of 'Killynure Castle' site. A modern house of that name now occupies the area. R. Hunter (per. comm.) identifies this 'castle' as the plantation house erected by Wilson prior to 1622 (Treadwell 1953-4, 516) and said to have been built on 'a mount called Dundree'. Fagan in 1846 (Bk. 10, 8) when describing the remains of the nearby castle (DG069-022002-) recorded that 'it seems to have for its site an artificial and oval-shaped fort raised of earth and stone considerably above the adjoining ground but now much disfigured'. It is difficult to determine now if any remains of this 'Fort' survives as the mound has a natural appearance. The owner of the house on the site records the tradition of a 'souterrain' (DG069-022004-) nearby. The site is located on a slight rise, on good land just S of the River Deel. 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

• DG069-022002 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  The 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps show this single-ringed 'Fort' (DG069-022001-) to the E of 'Killynure Castle' site. A modern house of that name now occupies the area. R. Hunter (per. comm.) identifies this 'castle' as the plantation house erected by Wilson prior to 1622 (Treadwell 1953-4, 516) and said to have been built on 'a mount called Dundree'. Fagan in 1846 (Bk. 10, 8) when describing the remains of the nearby castle recorded that 'it seems to have for its site an artificial and oval-shaped fort raised of earth and stone considerably above the adjoining ground but now much disfigured'. It is difficult to determine now if any remains of this 'Fort' survives as the mound has a natural appearance. The owner of the house on the site records the tradition of a 'souterrain' (DG069-022004-) nearby. The site is located on a slight rise, on good land just S of the River Deel. Killynure Castle (site of): By 1619, William Wilson had built a castle and a bawn (DG069-022005-). In 1622, it was described as a 'house of lime and stone and birch timber, slated, standing on a mount called Dundree, 50 ft long and 18 ft wide with 2 returns . . . a bawn from the forefront of the house of lime and stone 100 ft square and 12 ft high' (Hill 1877, 515; Treadwell 1953-5, 516). The Civil Survey, 1654-6, records it as 'a ruinous castle belonging to ye haire of Mr Wilson called Wilson's fort' (Simmington 1937, 23). Some small sections of bawn and castle walls which 'preclude a minute description of its extent or form', survived when Fagan described the ruins in 1846 (Bk. 10, 8). No visible trace of this castle remains, though the mound on which it stood is occupied by a house of the same name. 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

• DG069-022003 Bullaun stone
  Description

  The report in the SMR file (in the handwriting of Brian Lacey) records the following: 'There is a bullaun stone at the house door'. The building referred to is of late 19th century date.

• DG069-022005 Bawn
  Description

  Killynure Castle (DG069-022002-) (site of): By 1619, William Wilson had built a castle and a bawn (DG069-022005-). In 1622, it was described as a 'house of lime and stone and birch timber, slated, standing on a mount called Dundree, 50 ft long and 18 ft wide with 2 returns . . . a bawn from the forefront of the house of lime and stone 100 ft square and 12 ft high' (Hill 1877, 515; Treadwell 1953-5, 516). The Civil Survey, 1654-6, records it as 'a ruinous castle belonging to ye haire of Mr Wilson called Wilson's fort' (Simmington 1937, 23). Some small sections of bawn and castle walls which 'preclude a minute description of its extent or form', survived when Fagan described the ruins in 1846 (Bk. 10, 8). No visible trace of this castle remains, though the mound on which it stood is occupied by a house of the same name. 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

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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1771 (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.

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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.