Keadew Upper

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Keadew Upper, from 110 m² to 4,784,400 m² (478.44 ha, 1,182.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Keadew Upper 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.

• 10 Apr 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF 3 NO. NEW CULVERTS TO REPLACE EXISTING CULVERTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ALONG THE N15. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460495

• 21 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTEGRAL GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350538

• 16 Dec 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH INTEGRAL GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252022

• 6 May 2022Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING BARNESMORE COMMUNITY CENTRE TO A MONTESSORI SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250790

• 29 Mar 2022N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE EXISTING BARNESMORE COMMUNITY CENTER TO A MONTESSORI SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250531

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION & DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250145

• 19 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STORY EXTENSION & DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152315

• 11 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE-STORY EXTENSION & DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS NECESSARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152229

• 30 Mar 2021Conditional

  70-METRE-HIGH TEMPORARY METEROLOGICAL MAST AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR A PERIOD OF 3 YEARS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150554

• 22 Mar 2019Conditional

  A 70 METRE HIGH TEMPORARY METEOROLOGICAL MAST AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR A PERIOD OF 21 MONTHS WITHIN THE EXISTING BARNESMORE WINDFARM SITE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950390

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAST, EQUIPMENT CABIN, ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT AND ACCESS TRACK

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1751055

• 2 Jun 2017N/a

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAST, EQUIPMENT CABIN, ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT AND ACCESS TRACK

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750862

• 12 Apr 2017Refused

  A 10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR DEVELOPMENT CONSISTING OF (1) A 110KV ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION WHICH INCLUDES 2 NO. CONTROL BUILDINGS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING, FENCING AND ANCILLARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK TO REPLACE TWO SUBSTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED AS PART OF THE DRUMNAHOUGH WIND FARM (PL.REF.08/50687 AND EXTENDED UNDER PL. REF.13/51609) AND THE LENALEA WIND FARM (PL.REF.09/50116); (2) 33KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PERMITTED LENALEA WIND FARM TO THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CARK; (3) 110KV UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLING AND ANCILLARY WORKS FROM THE PROPOSED SUBSTATION AT CARK THROUGH THE TOWNLANDS OF CULLIAGH, MEENBOG (ED CLOGHAN), LETTERSHANBO, CORLACKY, KINNADERRY, WELCHTOWN, AGHAVEAGH, MEENAGRAUV, ALTNAPASTE, BALLYKERGAN, CARRICKMAHON, MAGHERACLOIGH, LOUGHSALLAGH, CASHELNAVEAN, CROAGHONAGH, TAWNAWULLY MOUNTAINS, KEADEW UPPER, FRIARBUSH, ARDINAWARK, KEADEW LOWER, TO THE EXISTING CLOGHER SUBSTATION IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, CO. DONEGAL; (4) THE DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED AND ITS REPLACEMENT WITH A NEW SHED, BOTH IN THE TOWNLAND OF CULLIONBOY, RELOCATED TO FACILITATE THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND CABLING WORKS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT (EIS) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750543

• 30 Mar 2017N/a

  EXISTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAST, EQUIPMENT CABIN, ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT AND ACCESS TRACK

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750459

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: Lough Eske and Ardnamona Wood SAC 000163
• Natural Heritage Area: Barnesmore Bog NHA 002375

Recorded monuments

• DG094-026 Kiln
  Description

  Excavation licence number 99E0379. Excavation was carried out on the site of a drying kiln between 28 June and 3 July 1999, before the proposed Clar-Barnesmore road realignment. Topsoil, sod and a single stone fill of the bowl were removed, exposing a kiln built into a natural ridge of peat. The kiln comprised a circular bowl with outwardly battered sides, built of randomly coursed, small to medium-sized, roughly rectangular stones with two courses of larger stones at the base, and an outwardly splayed, north-west/south-east-aligned flue, built of upright slabs and roofing lintels (only one of which survived). The bowl had been deliberately backfilled. A stone surface built on the peat ridge surrounded the kiln. The feature had been extensively disturbed at the south-east end of the flue by construction works associated with the present N15 embankment and the earlier construction of the embankment for the railway to the south. It was not possible from the evidence gathered to arrive at a definite date for the kiln. (Excavations Bulletin 1999) Declan Moore, IAC, 8 Dungar Terrace, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

Architectural heritage

• Viaduct, bridge, embankment, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Former railway embankments and cuttings associated with the West Donegal Railway, erected c. 1889. Now out of use (since 1960). Two separate sections of embankment built into side of Barnesmore Mountain. Embankments constructed of dry stone masonry (local granite); no parapets. Formerly with single railway line, line dismantled. Single-arched bridge to north-west section carrying former railway line over mountain stream discharging into Lowerymore River having roughly dressed voussoirs to arch, squared-rubble stone construction, and with rock-faced coping over parapets. Located to the north-east of Donegal Town at the south-west entrance to the Barnesmore Gap.

• Bridge, 1820–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over tributary of the Lowerymore River, built or rebuilt c. 1860, having diminutive cutwater to central pier. Round-headed arches having dressed rock-faced voussoirs with dressed margins; cement rendered coating to arch barrels. Snecked and/or squared and coursed mildly rock-faced masonry construction to spandrels and abutments; rubble stone construction to parapets with rock-faced stone coping over. Parapets rebuilt in places. Tarmacadam Deck. Located to the north-east of Donegal Town, and at the south-west entrance to the Barnesmore Gap.

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 Keadew Upper, about 1 in 20 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 Keadew Upper.

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

Name

Keadew Upper · Céide Uachtarach

Area

9,502,535 m² (950.25 ha, 2,348.13 acres)

Civil parish

Donegal, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Clogher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 314 households in the Clogher electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardinawark, Croaghonagh, Cullionboy, Friarsbush, Keadew Lower, Meenabrock, Meenbog, Tawnawully Mountains

Placenames

Keadew Upper 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.