Findrum

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Findrum, from 17 m² to 236,231 m² (23.62 ha, 58.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Findrum 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) REPOSITIONING, EXTENSION AND ALTERATION WORKS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (A) CONVERSION OF ATTIC AREA INTO HABITABLE SPACE AND ASSOCIATED WINDOWS AND ROOFLIGHTS TO FRONT, REAR AND SIDE ELEVATIONS AND (B) RAISED TERRACE / VERANDA FEATURE TO THE SIDE ELEVATION, (2) DETACHED STORAGE SHED WITH ATTACHED LEAN TO STRUCTURE AND FUEL STORE, (3) REPOSITIONING OF SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (4) VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562207

• 3 Jul 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561130

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 22/52020 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350716

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF (A) A SILAGE PIT (B) A MILKING PARLOUR (C) AN ANIMAL HOLDING YARD (D) WATER STORAGE TANK WITH PUMP AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2252020

• 25 Jun 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151262

• 14 Jun 2021N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING ALL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS, AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151166

• 24 May 2021N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, WORKS INCLUDE ALL ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (B) A NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151001

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851793

• 27 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/50590

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751194

• 21 Apr 2017Conditional

  (A) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PROVISION OF A NEW RAISED ROOF TO BE CONSTRUCTED OVER THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE PROVIDING A FIRST FLOOR HABITABLE SPACE, ROOF LIGHTS AND ALL INTERNAL AMENDMENT WORKS AND EXTERNAL AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS (B) PROVISION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750590

• 6 Mar 2017Conditional

  A BEDROOM IN THE ATTIC SPACE AND REVISIONS TO THE ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750321

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 Findrum.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Findrum.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Findrum.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, 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_1792 (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.

No address of the register names Findrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Findrum

Area

1,556,806 m² (155.68 ha, 384.7 acres)

Civil parish

Convoy, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Convoy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Blackrepentance, Broadpath, Carrickbrack, Corradooey, Glasly, Greenfield, Milltown, Mullanard

Placenames

Findrum 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.