Kildrum Upper

104 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kildrum Upper, from 5 m² to 152,930 m² (15.29 ha, 37.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Kildrum 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.

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF THE EXISTING POTATO STORE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NOS. 08/70657 & 11/70119 TO TIMBER FRAME FABRICATION UNIT

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661567

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  A TIMBER YARD COMPRISING OF: ERECTION OF A COMMERICAL STORAGE SHED, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661493

• 23 Jul 2026N/a

  A TIMBER YARD, COMPRISING OF ERECTION OF A COMMERICAL STORAGE SHED WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661377

• 20 Jun 2026N/a

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT COTTAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661138

• 14 Mar 2025Conditional

  EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560369

• 22 Jul 2024Unconditional

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) REMOVAL OF 7 EXISTING FOOTINGS ON SITE, (B) COMPLETION OF 3 DETACHED FOOTINGS, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF 4 SINGLE STOREY DWELLINGS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF 8 SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (E) CONSTRUCTION OF 15 DETACHED DWELLINGS AND COMPLETION OF ALL EXISTING UNFINISHED DRIVEWAYS, FOOTPATHS, LAMPSTANDS, SEWER PIPEWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPEWORK AND THE MAINS PIPEWORK AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORK INCLUDING LANDSCAPING OF OPEN SPACES

  Extension of duration, 30 homes · Donegal County Council, 2450183

• 16 Aug 2023Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL STORE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH SLURRY TANK STORAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351209

• 31 May 2023Conditional

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY REAR EXTENSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND IMPROVEMENTS TO PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350776

• 2 May 2023N/a

  EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE. THE WORKS WILL CONSIST OF THE DEMOLITION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY REAR EXTENSION WITH MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND IMPROVEMENTS TO PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350577

• 22 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO POTATO STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051571

• 9 Oct 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO POTATO STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051476

• 12 Apr 2019Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL OF UNAUTHORISED WALL AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE ELEVATION OF EXISTING PREMISES KNOWN AS 'THE ALT BAR', AND (2) RETENTION OF SMOKING AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950515

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  COMPLETION OF AN UNFINISHED DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (A) REMOVAL OF 7 EXISTING FOOTINGS ON SITE, (B) COMPLETION OF 3 DETACHED FOOTINGS ON SITE NO'S 6,7 AND 9, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF 4 SINGLE STOREY DWELLINGS, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF 8 SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND (E) CONSTRUCTION OF 15 DETACHED DWELLINGS AND COMPLETION OF ALL EXISTING UNFINISHED DRIVEWAYS, FOOTPATHS, LAMPSTANDS, SEWER PIPEWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPEWORK AND THE MAINS PIPEWORK AND ALL OTHER ANCILLARY WORK INCLUDING LANDSCAPING OF OPEN SPACES

  Permission, 30 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851931

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  FRONT PORCH AND REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851152

• 21 Jun 2018N/a

  FRONT PORCH AND REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850962

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 Kildrum Upper.

Recorded monuments

• DG055-004 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Fort' shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. It was situated on the shoulder of a hill sloping steeply to the SW in good land. 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 Kildrum 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

At the centre of the townland of Kildrum Upper, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Kildrum Upper · Cúl Droma Uachtarach

Area

1,233,306 m² (123.33 ha, 304.76 acres)

Civil parish

Allsaints, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Killea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,802 people lived in 681 households in the Killea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 49% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altaghaderry, Ballyboe, Garshooey, Imlick, Kildrum Lower, Legnaduff

Placenames

Kildrum 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.