Kingarrow

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kingarrow, from 521 m² to 1,197,557 m² (119.76 ha, 295.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Kingarrow 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.

• 13 Sept 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151821

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kingarrow.

Architectural heritage

• Kingarrow National School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 1891, having three-bay rear elevation. Pitched replacement slate roof, having overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends and with exposed purlins to gables, cast-iron rainwater goods and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast-rendered walls with projecting plinth course. Square-headed openings with painted stone sills and original timber casement windows, and timber panelled door with overlight. Plaque inscribed "KINGARROW/NATIONAL SCHOOL/1891". Set parallel to roadside, with stone boundary wall to front.

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 Kingarrow.

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

Name

Kingarrow · An Cionn Garbh

Area

7,085,444 m² (708.54 ha, 1,750.85 acres)

Civil parish

Inishkeel, and its townlands

Barony

Boylagh

Electoral division

Fintown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Fintown electoral division: 294 people in 105 households; 78% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crockastoller, Cummirk, Meenachullion, Meenadoan, Meenatinny, Pollandoo, Tievedeevan

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Kingarrow 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.