Kincrum
Kincrum is a townland in the civil parish of Inishkeel, barony of Boylagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Cionn Cruinne.
- Area
- 166.4 ha
- 411 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 4,289 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kincrum, from 141 m² to 859,790 m² (85.98 ha, 212.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Kincrum 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
22 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND EXTENSION TO THE SAME (2) GARDEN ROOM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151895
24 Oct 2017Conditional
TEN YEAR DURATION FOR A NEW IMPOUNDMENT COMPRISING OF CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION AND WILL INCREASE THE NORMAL TOP WATER LEVEL OF DERK MORE LOUGH BY 1.5M. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A STAGE 1 SCREENING REPORT FOR APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751605
13 Apr 2017Conditional
A TEN YEAR DURATION FOR THE UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING LETTERMACAWARD WATER TREATMENT PLANT TO AN INCREASED CAPACITY OF 2,800M3/DAY AS PART OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY SCHEME CONSISTING OF A NEW WATER TREATMENT PROCESS BUILDING, TREATED WATER CONTACT TANK, SLUDGE PROCESSING TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750553
23 Mar 2017Conditional
A NEW WATER MAIN IN THE L-6373-1, L6373-2 AND L-6363-1 PUBLIC ROADS, FROM THE N56 JUNCTION TO A PROPOSED WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR AT DERRYLOUGHAN (REF PLANNING NO 16/51737). PART OF THE WATERMAIN IS INSIDE THE BOUNDARY OF A SPECIAL AREA OF CONSERVATION (SAC) KNOWN AS WEST OF ARDARA/MAAS ROAD SAC. THE PIPELINES ARE PART OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY SCHEME. A SEPARATE PLANNING APPLICATION FOR A BOOSTER PUMPING STATION AT KINCRUM (REF PLANNING NO 16/50917) ALSO REFERS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750424
3 Feb 2017N/a
A TEN YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING LETTERMACAWARD WATER TREATMENT PLANT. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF UPGRADING THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT TO AN INCREASED CAPACITY OF 2,800M3/DAY AS PART OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE REGIONAL WATER SUPPLY SCHEME CONSISTING OF A NEW WATER TREATMENT PROCESS BUILDING, TREATED WATER CONTACT TANK, SLUDGE PROCESSING TANK AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750139
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: West of Ardara/Maas Road SAC 000197
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: West Of Ardara/Maas Road 000197
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kincrum.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Kincrum.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Kincrum, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Kincrum.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Kincrum with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Kincrum · Cionn Cruinne
- Area
- 1,664,487 m² (166.45 ha, 411.3 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inishkeel, and its townlands
- Barony
- Boylagh
- Electoral division
- Glenties, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,475 people lived in 593 households in the Glenties electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 15% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cleengort, Derk More, Mulnamin More
- Placenames
- Kincrum 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.