Goldrum

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Goldrum, from 17 m² to 274,727 m² (27.47 ha, 67.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Goldrum 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.

• 29 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661417

• 4 Mar 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660335

• 25 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660283

• 10 Jun 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460859

• 12 Jul 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351021

• 26 May 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151036

• 23 Nov 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051776

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050441

• 4 Mar 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050264

• 8 Aug 2019Conditional

  MODIFICATIONS TO THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT DEVELOPMENT PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 15/51355 INVOLVING (1) SITE LAYOUT CHANGES INCLUDING REDUCTION IN ROAD AND HARDSTANDING AREAS, REPOSITIONING OF THE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT, REPOSITIONING OF GENERATOR HOUSING AND EXTERNAL OIL TANK, OMISSION OF GENERATOR SHED ENCLOSURE AND REVISED PARKING LAYOUT; (2) REDUCTION IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT BUILDING AND REVISED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES TO THIS BUILDING; (3) REDUCTION IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE SLUDGE DEWATERING BUILDING AND REVISED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES TO THIS BUILDING; (4) REDUCTION TO THE RAW WATER BALANCING TANK HEIGHT, INCLUDING OMISSION OF OUTLET CHAMBERS; (5) MODIFICATIONS TO THE CLEAR WATER TANK, INCLUDING REDUCING THE TANK DEPTH, REDUCTION IN FOOT PRINT, AND RAISING THE ROOF LEVEL OF THE TANK BY 1.48M (6) REPOSITIONING OF, AND ALTERATIONS TO, THE SLUDGE TREATMENT FACILITIES INCLUDING; INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TANKS FROM 6 TO 8, REPLACING THE SINGLE WASH WATER RECOVERY TANK WITH TWO CIRCULAR WASH WATER RECOVERY TANKS AND INSTALLATION OF AN ADDITIONAL UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK (PROCESS WATER SUMP) (38.5 M2); (7) ALL SITE WORKS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES TO DEVELOPMENT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951216

• 6 Jun 2019N/a

  (1) SITE LAYOUT CHANGES INCLUDING REDUCTION IN ROAD AND HARDSTANDING AREAS, REPOSITIONING OF THE ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT UNIT, REPOSITIONING OF GENERATOR HOUSING AND OMISSION OF EXTERNAL OIL TANK AND FENCE ENCLOSURE AND REVISED PARKING LAYOUT (2) REDUCTION IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT BUILDING AND REVISED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES TO THIS BUILDING (3) REDUCTION IN THE FOOTPRINT OF THE SLUDGE BUILDING BY AND REVISED INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES TO THIS BUILDING (4) MODIFICATIONS TO THE RAW WATER BALANCING TANK STRUCTURE, INCLUDING REDUCING ITS HEIGHT (5) MODIFICATIONS TO THE CLEAR WATER TANK, INCLUDING REDUCING THE TANK HEIGHT AND RAISING THE LEVEL OF THE TANK WITH A RESULTANT MEAN INCREASE IN FINISHED GROUND LEVEL OF 1:48M (6) REPOSITIONING OF, AND ALTERATIONS TO, THE SLUDGE TREATMENT FACILITIES INCLUDING; INCREASING THE NUMBER OF TANKS FROM 6 TO 8, REPLACING THE SINGLE WASH WATER RECOVERY TANK WITH TWO CIRCULAR WASH WATER RECOVERY TANKS AND INSTALLATION OF AN ADDITIONAL UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK (PROCESS WATER SUMP) (38.5 M2) (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE LANDSCAPING, GROUND LEVELS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO ALLOW COMPLETION OF THE DEVELOPMENT.

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950835

• 17 Apr 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE AND ERECTION OF NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950559

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 Goldrum.

Recorded monuments

• DG035-012001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 16m E-W. The 'Cashel' marked here on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps has been largely destroyed. Part of the T-shaped souterrain (DG035-012002-) (Kinahan 1889, 280) is visible. It is now c. 1.8m wide, c. 0.6m high and is open for a stretch c. 1.9m long. The walls and roof are formed from large slabs. The site, a partly artificial platform, is located on a slope in good pasture. 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

• DG035-012002 Souterrain
  Description

  The 'Cashel' (DG035-012001-) marked here on the 2nd and 3rd editions of the OS 6-inch maps has been largely destroyed. Part of the T-shaped souterrain (Kinahan 1889, 280) is visible. It is now c. 1.8m wide, c. 0.6m high and is open for a stretch c. 1.9m long. The walls and roof are formed from large slabs. The site, a partly artificial platform, is located on a slope in good pasture. 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

• DG035-013 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature, first shown on the 1848 edition of the OS 6-inch map, has been demolished. It stood on level ground overlooked to the N by the hill country S of Lough Salt Mountain. South-eastward from the site there is a view between low hills along the valley of the Lurgy River toward Kilmacrenan village. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described it as the 'ruins of an ancient sepulture' locally called 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' consisting of a great oblong flag measuring 71/2 feet (c. 2.3m) long, 51/2 feet (c. 1.7m) broad and 1 foot (c. 0.3m) thick, which lay with its E side nearly resting on the ground and its W side 'elevated 21/2 feet [c. 0.75m] by a pillar beneath each end'. Immediately to the W a few upright stones, 21/2 feet (c. 0.75m) high, stood close together. He claimed that many other stones, as well as some enclosed graves, had been removed from the site at an earlier period. The remains here appear to have been further interfered with by the beginning of the 20th century, as they were then described as 'a large boulder laid horizontally over some loose stones' (OS 1:2,500 Name Book, 1903). Two stones, each c. 1m in maximum dimension, set in a field fence a short distance S of where this feature stood are claimed locally to have formed part of it. The structure described by Fagan may have been a ruined megalithic tomb, but evidence that was more compelling would be required to establish with any degree of certainty that this was so. Fagan 1845-8, book 5, 5; Kinahan 1887-8, 432; Kinahan 1889, 280; Borlase 1897, 232, Kilmacrenan no. 14; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 35 (1903), 7; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 127; SMR 1987, 35:13; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 35:13. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG035-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 22.3m-26.7m. A slightly raised oval area enclosed by a much defaced earthen bank which survives for two short stretches, one on the N and the other from the SW to the S, up to .5m in height. The interior is flat and level. Traces of cultivation ridges are visible running E-W across the site. The ringfort is situated on a low rise in an undulating landscape. The land about the site is wettish pasture. 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 in the townland of Goldrum.

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 Goldrum, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Goldrum · An Ghabhail

Area

1,804,206 m² (180.42 ha, 445.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Loughkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

331 people lived in 106 households in the Loughkeel electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnes Lower, Casheleenan, Fawans, Knocknabollan, Letterfad

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Goldrum 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.