Keeldrum Lower

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keeldrum Lower, from 23 m² to 62,039 m² (6.2 ha, 15.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Keeldrum Lower 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.

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A REDESIGNED COMMERCIAL GARAGE WITH OFFICE AND STORAGE AREA GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50456 AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561118

• 9 Jun 2025Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING WITH ADDITIONAL WINDOWS AND DOOR AS PART OF THE DWELLING RENOVATIONS AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560947

• 11 Feb 2025Refused

  INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND A SOIL POLISHING FILTER AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560161

• 14 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION AND REPLACEMENT OF EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE WITH A NEW EXTENSION WITH A PITCHED ROOF, (2) EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING HOUSE INCLUDING NEW WINDOWS TO THE EASTERN FAÇADE, A NEW DOOR TO THE NORTH FAÇADE AND NEW VELUX WINDOWS TO THE ROOF, (3) ATTIC CONVERSION TO PROVIDE A NEW BEDROOM, WC AND STORAGE AND (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE LOCATED TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461843

• 1 Nov 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461754

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND YARD AREA (2) COMMERCIAL GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL GARAGE WITH CANOPY FOR STORAGE, WEIGHBRIDGE, ONSITE CARPARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150456

• 20 Oct 2020Conditional

  SEID TALMHAIOCHTA A THOGAIL

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051550

• 28 Nov 2019Conditional

  ALTERATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING & DEMOLITION OF EXISTING EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951844

• 14 Nov 2019N/a

  ALTERATION AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951744

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  TEACH CONAITHE, DABHACH SÉARACHAIS LE LIMISTEAR SIOTHLAITHE AGUS SEID TALMHAÍOCHTA A THÓGÁIL

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951636

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE (ATM) TO THE EXISTING SHOPFRONT FACADE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950614

• 11 Mar 2019N/a

  COMPLETION OF A DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER 08/31063 CURRENTLY CONSTRUCTED TO SUBFLOOR LEVEL AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950309

• 6 Mar 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF:08/31073 AND EXTENDED UNDER REF NO:14/50217

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950280

• 9 May 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALSO UPGRADE WORKS TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850734

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 Keeldrum Lower.

Recorded monuments

• DG024-014 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  This feature is named 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' on the OS 6-inch map of 1847-52. It is 1.4km SW of Gortahork on level ground above the valleys of the Owentilly River to the W and the Glenna River to the E, both of which reach the sea at the inner end of Ballyness Bay, 1.3km to the N. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) described it as 'the ruins of an ancient sepulture called Dermot and Grania's Bed which at present consist in one grave 8 feet [c. 2 m] long enclosed at either side by a slab of nearly equal length placed edgeways in the ground and standing 11/2 feet [c. 0.45m] above the latter and supporting as cover to the grave a large flag 6 feet [c. 1.8m] long, 41/2 feet [c. 1.4m] broad and 9 inches [c. 0.2m] thick and a portion of its upper side partially studded with holes 1 to 2 inches [c. 25-50mm] diameter and 1/2 inch [c. 12mm] deep. Here stood other graves the enclosing stones of which have been long since removed to modern erections.' Two opposed stones, aligned N-S and standing 0.7m apart, mark the site. They are at right angles to a field wall that has been built over them and largely obscures them. The eastern stone is 1m long, 0.1m thick and 0.7m high. The western is 0.9m long, 0.15m thick and also 0.7m high. Just 0.4m W of this is a partly buried, prostrate slab measuring at least 1.3m in maximum dimension. According to local information, there was further structure here until recent decades, but its extent and relationship to the two set stones are unclear. The remains cannot now be reconciled with Fagan's account, and the nature of the site remains to be satisfactorily determined. Fagan 1845-8, book 4, 23; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 45, no. 131; SMR 1987, 24:14; RMP 1995, 24:14. 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

• DG024-015 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  This site, according to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), was known locally as 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' and then consisted of two slabs, one standing upright, which was 31/2 feet (c. 1.05m) long, 8 inches (c. 0.2m) thick and 41/2 feet (c. 1.4m) high, and the other, somewhat smaller, leaning against it. A 'few' other stones lay prostrate here; there were others on edge in the ground; and all appeared to have originally lain within an enclosure 25 yards (c. 22.85m) in diameter. This site was excavated in 1976. According to the excavator's account (Kilbride-Jones 1997), a rubble-cored wall, faced internally and externally, formed a round enclosure 23m in diameter. At the S the excavation revealed a chamber filled with midden material within the thickness of the wall. At the NE there was a gap in the wall, and 3m S of it were the two stones noted by Fagan. These still stand at the site. The excavator has suggested that they stood as opposed sidestones of a small megalithic chamber. According to him, there was a socket behind each of these and a further one forming a back to the chamber at the W. Immediately E of and in front of the supposed chamber the excavator identified a small 'forecourt' delimited by sockets. Two periods of activity were identified in the enclosure, the earlier represented by sherds of Western Neolithic pottery, by a plano-convex flint knife and possibly by sherds of coarse pottery. The later period was represented by spindle whorls of stone, a bone needle, a bracelet and ring, both of chlorite, and a heavily corroded iron object. Animal bones and piles of shells were recovered from different parts of the enclosure, and a small amount of cremated human bone was also found there. The site, substantially obscured by furze bushes (in 1994), looks like a ruined cashel with an entrance-like feature at the S consisting of the two stones described by Fagan, one leaning against the other. The nature of the supposed megalithic chamber with forecourt identified by Kilbride-Jones is uncertain. The context of the undoubted Neolithic activity at the site is unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 4, 22; Kilbride-Jones 1977; Lacy 1983, 52, no. 194; SMR 1987, 24:15; RMP 1995, 24:15; Kilbride-Jones 1997. 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

• DG024-015001 Burial
  Description

  This site, according to Thomas Fagan (1845-8), was known locally as 'Dermot and Grania's Bed' and then consisted of two slabs, one standing upright, which was 31/2 feet (c. 1.05m) long, 8 inches (c. 0.2m) thick and 41/2 feet (c. 1.4m) high, and the other, somewhat smaller, leaning against it. A 'few' other stones lay prostrate here; there were others on edge in the ground; and all appeared to have originally lain within an enclosure 25 yards (c. 22.85m) in diameter. This site was excavated in 1976. According to the excavator's account (Kilbride-Jones 1997), a rubble-cored wall, faced internally and externally, formed a round enclosure 23m in diameter. At the S the excavation revealed a chamber filled with midden material within the thickness of the wall. At the NE there was a gap in the wall, and 3m S of it were the two stones noted by Fagan. These still stand at the site. The excavator has suggested that they stood as opposed sidestones of a small megalithic chamber. According to him, there was a socket behind each of these and a further one forming a back to the chamber at the W. Immediately E of and in front of the supposed chamber the excavator identified a small 'forecourt' delimited by sockets. Two periods of activity were identified in the enclosure, the earlier represented by sherds of Western Neolithic pottery, by a plano-convex flint knife and possibly by sherds of coarse pottery. The later period was represented by spindle whorls of stone, a bone needle, a bracelet and ring, both of chlorite, and a heavily corroded iron object. Animal bones and piles of shells were recovered from different parts of the enclosure, and a small amount of cremated human bone was also found there. The site, substantially obscured by furze bushes (in 1994), looks like a ruined cashel with an entrance-like feature at the S consisting of the two stones described by Fagan, one leaning against the other. The nature of the supposed megalithic chamber with forecourt identified by Kilbride-Jones is uncertain. The context of the undoubted Neolithic activity at the site is unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 4, 22; Kilbride-Jones 1977; Lacy 1983, 52, no. 194; SMR 1987, 24:15; RMP 1995, 24:15; Kilbride-Jones 1997. 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

Architectural heritage

• Droicheadh Bhedlam [Bedlam Bridge], bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge crossing Abhainn Ghleann Átha [Glenna River], built c. 1800. Coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels; coursed rubble stone parapets having rendered coping over. Round-headed arch having roughly dressed voussoirs; rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Tarmacadam deck. Modern steel pedestrian bridge to north, erected c. 1995. Water pipe to the south elevation.

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 Keeldrum Lower, 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 high, 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 Keeldrum Lower.

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

Name

Keeldrum Lower · Caoldroim Íochtarach

Area

865,339 m² (86.53 ha, 213.83 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,693 people lived in 667 households in the Gortahork electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Beg, Ards More, Ballynacraig, Cashel, Gortahork

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Keeldrum Lower 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.