placenamesKindrum
Cionn Droma
Kindrum’s lake supplied power for local mills and forms the setting for a memorial to a disputed chapter of Fanad’s land history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cionn Droma · Irish · main form · validated name
- Kindrum · English · main form
Place & story
The lake powering local work
The Mulroy Drive community trail records Johnstons of Kindrum as a corn and flax milling business operating around 1900. Water flowing out of Kindrum Lake powered the mills, connecting local processing work with the freshwater landscape. The same account identifies O’Callaghans as a former pub and shop, beside the post office they also ran. Together these premises formed part of the hamlet’s commercial and service life. [2]
The Fanad Patriots Monument
A limestone Celtic cross overlooking Kindrum Lough was erected in 1960. It commemorates Neil Shield, Michael Heraghty and Michael McElwee, linking their names with the 1878 killing of Lord Leitrim. Its inscription celebrates the event as resistance to landlordism. The architectural inventory records the cross, plinth and stepped base: the monument preserves a particular commemorative interpretation of the killing, rather than serving as independent proof of each man’s role. [3]
Plants in a stony-bottomed lake
Kindrum Lough also has a distinctive natural heritage. The National Parks and Wildlife Service’s 2015 synopsis records slender naiad and the rare stonewort Nitella spanioclema, along with Arctic char. Its stony bed contrasts with nearby sand-bottomed machair lakes. Reeds and wet fen connect it with smaller Fallaneas Lough, whose outflow enters Kindrum. The account identifies this combination of habitat and rare species as the site’s conservation significance. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog
- Within
- Kindrum
- Coordinates
- 55.22468, -7.70140 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413080 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Kindrum. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Kindrum, Mulroy Drive community trail · Mulroy Drive, MDRC
- Fanad Patriots Monument, Coolback,40900814 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kindrum Lough SAC site synopsis,1December2015 · National Parks and Wildlife Service
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-02-05. How this page was prepared.