Springfield

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield, from 78 m² to 401,749 m² (40.17 ha, 99.27 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 Springfield 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Springfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Springfield.

Recorded monuments

• DG017-027 Hut site
  Description

  Towards N end of Fanad Peninsula and 1.5km E of Kindrum Bay. Just SW of foot of rocky ridge at W end of Springfield Mountain. An area of rocky undulating land with heather and rough grass. Outlook to S over lower ground where there is improved land. There are 2 hut-sites here 15m apart. 1. At NW: rectangular site with internal dimensions of 5m N-S and 3.5m E-W. Grass-grown remains of well-built wall now about 0.5m high. Wall has rubble core and inner and outer faces of dry-wall construction. Possible entrance at W. 2. At SE: a number of upright stones rise above the remains of a low bank that seems to define a sub-rectangular enclosure some 4m in internal dimension. A 3.5m long stretch of bank survives at S and a shorter stretch at N. Two tall stones at W end of southern stretch of bank may mark entrance to the enclosure. The eastern of these stones is 0.5m by 0.4m by 0.85m high, the western is 0.3m by 0.35m by 0.55m high and they are 0.95m apart. Some other set stones, not over 0.3m high, are visible along the perimeter. The whole seems to be some form of small enclosure, perhaps a hut-site. If so it differs in character from 1 above.

Architectural heritage

• Kiln, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding two-bay lime kiln on rectangular-plan, erected c. 1800, having square-headed aperture to the west and round-headed aperture to the east. Set into natural slope in field. Now out of use with trees growing from site. Constructed of roughly coursed rubble stone masonry and rubble stone masonry. Roughly squared stone lintel over square-headed kiln, roughly dressed rubble stone voussoirs to round-headed aperture. Former loading bays to summit, now partially collapsed. Earthen embankment to rear, formerly giving access to loading chambers. Set back from road in rural location to the north-east of site of Springfield House (built c. 1688 and demolished in 1968) and to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula.

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 Springfield, 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, low (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 Springfield.

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.

• Springfield, Carrowreagh Road6 sales

Name

Springfield

Area

1,377,573 m² (137.76 ha, 340.41 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Greenfort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

359 people lived in 134 households in the Greenfort electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 57% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagahy Mountain, Ballymagahy North, Ballymagahy South, Carrowkeel Glebe, Kinnalough, Legboy, Newtown Springfield, Tawny

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Springfield 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.