Drummucklagh

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drummucklagh, from 86 m² to 175,266 m² (17.53 ha, 43.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Drummucklagh 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561430

• 17 Feb 2025Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550009

• 31 Mar 2023Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED ENTRANCE AND ROADWAY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350425

• 23 Nov 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051782

• 13 Mar 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050328

• 13 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND PROVISION OF AN ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850555

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION (23.6M2) TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING CONSISTING OF A NEW BEDROOM WITH EN-SUITE BATHROOM; ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS AND CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751200

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Feddyglass Woods 001129

Recorded monuments

• DG062-027 Enclosure
  Description

  There is no trace of the tree-covered circular enclosure shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was situated on the edge of a level area which then slopes to the NE. It had extensive views. 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

• Kiln, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay lime kiln on square-plan, erected c. 1860. Tapers outwards towards base. Now out of use. Constructed of rubble stone masonry. Series of staged segmental-headed recesses to the front (south-east), the former oven aperture, having brick voussoirs over. Former loading chamber on ovoid/circular-plan to the north-east having rubble masonry construction; chamber now partially collapsed. Built into rock outcrop adjacent to road and former quarries. Earthen embankment to rear, formerly giving access to loading chamber. Set back from road in rural countryside to the north-east of Raphoe.

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 Drummucklagh, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Drummucklagh

Area

728,602 m² (72.86 ha, 180.04 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylennan, Carnshannagh, Drumcrow, Feddyglass, Lettergull, Woodlands

Placenames

Drummucklagh 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.