Kindrum

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Kindrum, from 50 m² to 249,483 m² (24.95 ha, 61.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Kindrum 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.

• 8 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONVERSION OF ATTIC AND INTEGRAL GARAGE TO HABITABLE ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051878

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Special Area of Conservation: Kindrum Lough SAC 001151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kindrum Lough 001151

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Kindrum.

Architectural heritage

• Kindrum Post Office, house, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with attic, built c.1860, with two further bays added to south c.1880, latter having taller first floor windows, and with gabled porch projection to front of earlier block. South bays formerly in use as post office. Single-storey ruinous outbuilding to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, raised eaves course with replacement gutters and cast-iron downpipes, and four rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to porch. Lined-and-ruled smooth-rendered walls. Paired round-headed fixed timber windows to attic level of south gable and square-headed elsewhere, with stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to older block and one-over-one pane to southern two at front first floor level, one-over-two pane to front ground floor, and replacement uPVC to lower floors of south gable and to porch. Timber door with overlight to post office and recent door to porch. Remains of post box to ground floor with name "Kindrum Post Office" to lintel over doorway into post office. Gardens to front and rear.

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 Kindrum, 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 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 Kindrum.

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

Name

Kindrum · Cionn Droma

Area

886,052 m² (88.61 ha, 218.95 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

Ballyhiernan, Carrowkeel Glebe, Coolback, Fanavolty, Maghernalaght, Tullynadall

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Kindrum 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.