Drumnagahan

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumnagahan, from 309 m² to 41,653 m² (4.17 ha, 10.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Drumnagahan 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.

• 5 Aug 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561334

• 31 Jul 2024N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUTBUILDING AND FORMER SHOP PREMISES KNOWN AS 'THE TIN SHOP' AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, THE PROPOSAL WILL REQUIRE THE CARRYING OUT OF WORKS TO A PROTECTED STRUCTURE (NATIONAL BUILT HERITAGE SERVICE, REGISTRATION NO. 40909408)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461172

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS WITH EXCAVATED SOIL AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PL.REF.08/20134

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150559

• 19 Jun 2020Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SEPARATE VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO ACCESS ADJOINING AGRICULTURAL LANDS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050796

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 Drumnagahan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Drumnagahan.

Architectural heritage

• Shop/retail outlet, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey over raised basement gable-fronted former shop/retail premises, built/erected c. 1915, having projecting single-bay flat-roofed entrance porch to the front elevation (south-east). Possibly originally in use as a hall or meeting house. Now out of use/in use as a shed/outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-metal roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, and having decorative pierced timber bargeboard to the front gable having timber finial over to gable apex. Corrugated-metal sheeting to walls over timber superstructure. Square-headed window openings having moulded timber architraved surrounds, timber sills, and mainly two-over-two fixed-pane timber windows. Metal security bars to window openings to the front elevation (south-east). Square-headed door opening to porch having timber door. Flight of concrete steps serving entrance having open concrete balustrade. Storage area to basement level having square-headed doorways with timber boarded double doors to the south-west side elevation and to the rear (north-west). Located adjacent to the main Donegal to Ballybofey/Lifford road (N15). Sited to the north-east of Donegal Town.

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 Drumnagahan, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1473 (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 Drumnagahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Drumnagahan · Droim na nGuthann

Area

278,465 m² (27.85 ha, 68.81 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 314 households in the Clogher electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Birchhill, Clarcam, Clarlougheask, Finnabanes, Spierstown

Placenames

Drumnagahan 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.