Drumgowan
Townland in the civil parish of Donegal, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Droim Gamhan
Parcel 6208904
- Area
- 8,463 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 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
- Drumgowan
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
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1451 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
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.
- Area
- 111.7 ha
- 276 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 12,680 m² (1.27 ha, 3.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Drumgowan, from 9 m² to 141,947 m² (14.19 ha, 35.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Drumgowan 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY, DETACHED GARDEN ROOM FOR USE ANCILLARY TO THE MAIN DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660467
16 Dec 2025Conditional
DUNGSTEAD AND PERMISSION FOR PROPOSED ROOFING OF THE DUNGSTEAD FOR WHICH RETENTION IS SOUGHT AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY FLOOR STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562245
29 Jul 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE & ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT HOUSE, DECOMMISSIONING THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA, AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561294
26 Sept 2024N/a
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING EXTENSION, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION WITH ACCESS TO ROOF SPACE, (4) DECOMMISSIONING OF AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461519
15 Sept 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351386
14 Jul 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251211
18 May 2022Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING RUINS ON SITE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250867
7 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE-WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051873
5 Oct 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE-WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051429
5 Oct 2020Refused
ERECTION OF A DORMER DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE-WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051425
10 Oct 2018Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF TWO NEW FORESTRY ROAD ENTRANCES TO THE NORTH & SOUTH OF THE L-6715-1 LOCAL PUBLIC ROAD INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851569
9 May 2017Conditional
COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 05/658 WHICH WAS SUBSEQUENTLY EXTENDED UNDER REF NO'S 10/20288 AND 11/20189
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750687
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) SAC 000133
- Special Protection Area: Donegal Bay SPA 004151
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Donegal Bay (Murvagh) 000133
Recorded monuments
- DG100-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. c.·30m. Only a small section of the earthen bank survives but traces of a circular enclosure are discernible. It is located immediately W of another ringfort (DG026-004-). 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
- DG100-004 Ringfort - rath
Description
Internal diam. 20m. A small circular platform formed by scarping the hillside to produce the surrounding low earthen bank. It is divided by a modern field fence and is very overgrown. It is situated on the E edge of a steepsided E-W ridge in good land surrounded by marshy valleys. 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
- DG100-017 Fulacht fia
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Drumgowan.
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, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1435 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Drumgowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Drumgowan · Droim Gamhan
- Area
- 1,116,672 m² (111.67 ha, 275.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Donegal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Donegal electoral division: 4,179 people in 1,617 households; 71% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardlenagh, Brookfield, Drumbar, Drumlask, Tawnalary, Tullyearl, Tullyleague or Tullybrook, Tullymornin, Whitehill
- Placenames
- Drumgowan 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.