# Springfield, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,377,573 m² (137.76 ha, 340.41 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,614 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Greenfort, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15891 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52407 - Centre: latitude 55.211166, longitude -7.676706 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Springfield, from 78 m² to 401,749 m² (40.17 ha, 99.27 acres); 34 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4064728: 401,749 m² (40.17 ha, 99.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064728.md - Parcel 4064720: 336,777 m² (33.68 ha, 83.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064720.md - Parcel 4570873: 165,816 m² (16.58 ha, 40.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4570873.md - Parcel 4064759: 152,244 m² (15.22 ha, 37.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4064759.md - Parcel 1346540: 124,281 m² (12.43 ha, 30.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346540.md - Parcel 1322137: 75,709 m² (7.57 ha, 18.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322137.md - Parcel 6193990: 65,516 m² (6.55 ha, 16.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6193990.md - Parcel 1338805: 11,704 m² (1.17 ha, 2.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338805.md - Parcel 1301858: 10,546 m² (1.05 ha, 2.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301858.md - Parcel 1428120: 7,747 m² (0.77 ha, 1.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1428120.md - Parcel 1395757: 2,803 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395757.md - Parcel 1372314: 2,698 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372314.md - Parcel 1339018: 2,529 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339018.md - Parcel 1339597: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339597.md - Parcel 3658514: 2,257 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658514.md - Parcel 1310139: 1,546 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310139.md - Parcel 1419320: 1,438 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419320.md - Parcel 4570893: 1,175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4570893.md - Parcel 5831894: 680 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5831894.md - Parcel 1394881: 656 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394881.md - Parcel 3658515: 428 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658515.md - Parcel 3658513: 407 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658513.md - Parcel 4455474: 307 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4455474.md - Parcel 5831863: 78 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5831863.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Springfield in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Springfield. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG017-027: Hut site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-027----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kiln, 1780–1820, Regional interest, registry number 40901735, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901735. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Springfield. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/springfield.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/springfield.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/springfield.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Springfield, Carrowreagh Road: 6 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/springfield-carrowreagh-road.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballymagahy Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagahy-mountain.md - Ballymagahy North: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagahy-north.md - Ballymagahy South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymagahy-south.md - Carrowkeel Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowkeel-glebe.md - Kinnalough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kinnalough.md - Legboy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legboy.md - Newtown Springfield: https://everytownland.com/donegal/newtown-springfield.md - Tawny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-52480.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/springfield - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/springfield