Keeldrum Upper

185 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keeldrum Upper, from 86 m² to 10,429,290 m² (1,042.93 ha, 2,577.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 64 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 Keeldrum Upper 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.

• 1 Aug 2025Conditional

  (A) DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED AND SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, (B) BUILDING USED AS A GAMES ROOM AND STORAGE AREA ANCILLARY TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A GARDEN SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561328

• 29 May 2025N/a

  DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED, A SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A GARDEN SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560859

• 14 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) RENOVATION, CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND INCREASE IN HEIGHT OF DERELICT COTTAGE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550044

• 28 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) ALTERATIONS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION OF THE COTTAGE DWELLING HOUSE TO REPLACE AN EXISTING DOOR WITH A WINDOW, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTH-EAST GABLE SIDE AND TO THE SOUTH-WEST REAR ELEVATION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STUDIO ROOM FOR PRIVATE PURPOSES INCIDENTAL TO THE ENJOYMENT OF THE COTTAGE DWELLING HOUSE, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A PRIVATE DOMESTIC GARAGE FOR THE HOUSING OF VEHICLES, (5) REMOVAL OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH SOIL POLISHING FILTER BED AND (6) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350399

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE & REPOSITIONING & CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A NEW ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151872

• 30 Aug 2021N/a

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE & INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM.

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151726

• 20 Apr 2021Conditional

  RENOVATIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TO INCLUDE: (1) NEW BOX DORMER TO THE ROOF (2) CHANGE OF ROOF DESIGN TO THE FRONT PORCH AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING BAY WINDOW (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING EAST GABLE WINDOWS TO PROVIDE FOR SLIDING DOORS AND CANOPY TO ACCESS NEW PATIO AREA AND ENLARGE FIRST FLOOR WINDOW (4) ENLARGE EXISTING GROUND FLOOR WINDOW TO WEST GABLE TO PROVIDE FOR 'FRENCH' DOORS (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150705

• 13 Dec 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751882

• 23 Aug 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751306

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung SAC 000140
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fawnboy Bog/Lough Nacung 000140

Recorded monuments

• DG033-006 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  Located at the SE edge of the flat, bare stony summit of Carntreena (Carn Traonach) Mountain, a rounded peak rising on the E edge of a blanket bog-covered plateau. The W slope of the peak falls into a small boggy valley through which a stream flows to S. The cairn commands panoramic views. Its position at the SE edge of the summit, where ground falls away steeply, immediately draws the eye to the starkly dramatic conical outline of Errigal Mountain which dominates a range of mountain peaks stretching along the horizon from E to S, with Dunlewey Lough at the foot of the mountains to S. There are also excellent views to N−NE over coastal lowlands and out to sea to Tory Island, and S−SW over the lowlands of Gweedore. Indeed, the cairn overlooks an important route way to the coastal plain west of Gweedore and northward to the coast at Gortahork. This circular cairn (12.5m E-W; 12m N-S; H 1m at W, 1.5m at E), which gives its name to the peak, is constructed of loosely heaped small and medium-sized angular slabs and stones. It has a relatively low profile with a flattened top (diam. c. 5m) and broadly slumped sides, higher at E−SW where the ground falls away naturally. The cairn has been damaged in the modern era: A small circular depression (diam. 2m; D 0.3-0.4m) has been hollowed out of the top of the cairn at its N end, bordered on the N arc by a low ‘wall’ (H 0.5-0.6m) of heaped up stones; probably built to create a shelter/wind-break. A small modern cairn (max. dim. c. 1.8m; H 1m) is located 11m to SE. Notified to NMS by Michael Gibbons Attached images: DG033-006----_01.JPG viewed from N, with Errigal visible in background (at R) DG033-006----_02.JPG viewed from NW DG033-006----_03.JPG viewed from SW DG033-006----_04.JPG Disturbance/hollow at N edge of cairn Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 28 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Keeldrum Upper · Caoldroim Uachtarach

Area

14,723,439 m² (1,472.34 ha, 3,638.24 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ardsmore Mountain, Arduns, Ballynacraig, Beltany Lower, Beltany Upper, Fawnaboy, Glentornan, Meenacung, Money Beg

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Keeldrum Upper 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.