Arryheernabin

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arryheernabin, from 211 m² to 128,129 m² (12.81 ha, 31.66 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Arryheernabin 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 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650013

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE, STORAGE AND GAMES ROOM BUILDING TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461132

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK / WASTEWATER SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351237

• 4 Apr 2023Conditional

  (1) REDEVELOPMENT (INCLUDING PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TICKET OFFICE AND SHOP MEASURING 69 M2), (2) ERECTION OF A NEW MULTI-USE VISITOR EXPERIENCE CENTRE FOR FANAD HEAD LIGHTHOUSE MEASURING 963.6M2, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF 22 NO. ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING SPACES, 3 NO. MINIBUS/RV SPACES, BUS DROP OFF AREA, EXTERNAL SEATING AREA AND A CHILDREN’S PLAY AREA, (4) UPGRADING OF THE EXISTING WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, (5) ALL LANDSCAPING, BOUNDARY TREATMENTS, ENTRANCE AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS AND MOVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC LIGHTING, ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND SERVICE CONNECTIONS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350437

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF OFFICE ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152063

• 20 Jan 2021Unconditional

  THE INCREASE IN HEIGHT AND EXTENSION TO THE LIGHTHOUSE TAVERN TO PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING (1) PROVISION OF ENTRANCE LOBBY, BAR STORE, MALE DORMITORY WITH TOILETS AND SHOWERS, LAUNDRY AND STORE AT BASEMENT LEVEL. (2) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO FOYER , STAFF/ OFFICE AREA AND BAR, PROVISION OF LOUNGE, FEMALE DORMITORY WITH TOILETS AND SHOWERS, MALE AND FEMALE LOCKER ROOMS WITH TOILETS AND SHOWERS, TOILETS AND STORE. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING BAR & LOUNGE TO PROVIDE VEHICULAR EGRESS FROM CARPARK. PROVISION OF GENERATOR ROOM & BIN STORAGE AREA AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL. (3) PROVISION OF 6 NO. EN-SUITE BEDROOMS, RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT AND STORES AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL. (4) PROVISION OF DINING ROOM, KITCHEN, BREAKFAST AREA, RESIDENTS LOUNGE, TOILETS AND KITCHEN STORES AT SECOND FLOOR LEVEL. (5) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH SAND POLISHING FILTER. (6) DRILL DEEP BORED WELL ON SITE. (7) PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2150049

• 17 May 2018Conditional

  A CUSTOMER SERVICE FACILITY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850788

• 8 May 2018N/a

  A CUSTOMER SERVICE FACILITY WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Temporary permission · Donegal County Council, 1850708

• 8 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A POD FOR EXHIBITION PURPOSES WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AT FANAD LIGHTHOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750893

• 5 Apr 2017Conditional

  THE FOLLOWING ALTERATIONS TO PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF.NO. 15/50673. (1) ADDITION OF TWO NUMBER SINGLE STORIED EXTENSIONS TO REAR OF BUILDING. (A) TO ENCLOSE STAIRS LEADING TO BASEMENT AND (B) TO PROVIDE TOILETS AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL. (2) ADDITION OF LINK CORRIDOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL BETWEEN MAIN BUILDING AND ANNEX BUILDING (3) INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA OF BASEMENT (4) INCREASE IN WIDTH OF STAIR ENCLOSURE AT REAR OF BUILDING (5) ALTERATIONS TO INTERNAL LAYOUT (6) ALTERATIONS TO FENESTRATION PATTERN AND (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750534

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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Special Protection Area: Horn Head to Fanad Head SPA 004194
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

• DG009-011 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG009-012 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on a small promontory with near-vertical cliffs to the NW, NE and SE. Site marked by rocky terrain covered with areas of scrubland. The signal station at Fanad Head has been demolished (before 1815), and the location is now occupied by a lighthouse complex (15m OD; NIAH 4090901) that was constructed in 1886 and expanded in 1906. This lighthouse complex replaced an earlier lighthouse constructed 1815-7, which is depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map (surveyed 1834-6). The probable site of the signal tower is located within a promontory fort (DG009-011----). This signal tower was original built to be intervisible from the signal towers at Malin Head (DG001-006----), located 19.6kms to the NE, and with the signal tower at Melmore Head (DG008-027----), now ruinous, which is located 10.1kms to the WSW. A set of contemporary illustrations of the site by Sir William Smith (dated between 1804 and 1812) show that the signal tower followed the standard design signal tower (square-plan, two-storey H), and was accompanied by two single-storey gable-roofed buildings; one to the NW of the signal tower and one to the E of the signal tower. The signal tower was constructed with the doorway at first floor level to the NE, paired square-headed window openings to the NW and SE elevations at ground and first floor levels, and a tall chimneystack to the centre of the SW elevation. The signal tower had a machicolation over the first floor doorway on the NE wall and bartizans to the W and S corners. A parapet wall connected with the machicolation and the bartizans. Gun loops are shown on the parapet wall on either side of the chimneystack and on the outward facing sides of the bartizans. A signal mast was located to the NW of the signal tower. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the 19th century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 13/08/21 Images: DG009-012----.01 View of site of Signal Tower from the W

Architectural heritage

• Fanad Lighthouse, lighthouse, 1885–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-stage round-plan lighthouse, built 1886-7, with faceted glass and metal lantern. Constructed of smooth-rendered rubble stone masonry, with painted plinth. Lantern has metal walkway around base, supported on moulded ashlar granite corbels or console brackets, with simple wrought-iron railings and moulded cast-iron posts. Conical metal cap to lantern, with lightning rod. Square-headed openings with raised ashlar granite block-and-start surrounds and integral sills with timber casement and replacement windows. Doorway to attached former lighthouse keeper's houses and ancillary structures. Connected to former lighthouse keeper's houses by single-storey structure to southwest. Set on Cionn Fhánada [Fanad Head] overlooking north entrance of Loch Súilí [Lough Swilly]. Painted rubble stone and rendered walls to site. Helicopter pad to southwest of site, built 1969.

• Fanad Lighthouse, lighthouse keeper's house, 1810–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached seven-bay single-storey light-keepers' accommodation and ancillary structures, built c.1815-17, associated with Fanad Lighthouse, having two-bay gable-fronted projections to southeast and northwest running perpendicular to central block, central gable-fronted entrance bay to southwest elevation with slightly projecting gable-fronted porch, two-bay recessed wing to northwest corner, and single-storey section to northeast, adjoining lighthouse. Later pair of semi-detached two-bay two-storey keepers' houses attached to southeast corner, built c.1886. Now in use as offices and occasional accommodation. Pitched metallized felted artificial slate roofs, with rendered chimneystacks (some with granite copings), some cast-iron roof-lights, and surviving sections of profiled cast-iron rainwater goods supported on metal brackets. Raised rendered parapet to central section of front elevation (southwest), rendered chimneystack over main doorway, raised rendered verges and kneeler stones to front and rear elevations of front projection, and hipped artificial slate roof to recessed section to northwest. Smooth rendered walls over projecting smooth-rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with stone sills and mainly two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; some six-over-six pane and four-over-four pane windows to rear. Round-headed doorway to middle of front elevation with battened timber door, overlight and flight of cut granite steps with flanking mildly rock-faced granite plinth walls with rendered copings. Later semi-detached houses have flat roofs with central rendered chimneystack and profiled cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered walls, square-headed window openings with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, and square-headed battened timber doors. Later single-storey flat-roofed additions to northwest end of front elevations and to northwest side of single-storey block adjoining lighthouse. Rendered boundary walls and painted rubble stone walls to site. Set on Cionn Fhánada [Fanad Head] overlooking north entrance of Loch Súilí [Lough Swilly]. Helicopter pad to southwest, built 1969. Concrete pathways and steps surrounding site and leading down to coast.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey vernacular house, built c.1850, having windbreak entrance. Pitched slate roof with rendered copings, painted stone ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends, and lacking rainwater goods. Flat roof to windbreak with rendered coping. Lime-washed, rendered rubble stone walls with roughcast to southeast gable. Square-headed windows openings, south bays lacking sills, with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with no horns. Timber panelled entrance door. Single-storey outbuildings attached to gables, northwestern having pitched slate roof and southeastern being roofless. Ruinous outbuildings to northeast.

• Fanad Coastguard Station, coastguard station, 1900–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay two-storey coastguard station, built 1905, having two-storey wing to west and single-storey extension to southwest, and series of single-storey structures to northeast. Now disused. Flat rendered roof with projecting eaves and three smooth-rendered chimneystacks with rendered copings. Smooth-rendered walls with square-headed openings now lacking sills and windows. Set on Cionn Fhánada [Fanad Head] overlooking An Aigéan Atlantach [Atlantic Ocean] with Fanad Lighthouse and light keepers' houses to east, and rendered boundary wall to southwest.

• LOP 79, watch tower, 1940–1945 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Second World War watch hut, built c.1941, having canted bay to north and single-storey entrance bay to east. Flat rendered roof with ovolo-moulded parapet, and smooth-rendered walls with square-headed openings throughout lacking fittings. Set on elevated site overlooking An Aigéan Atlantach [Atlantic Ocean] with former coastguard station to southeast.

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

The EPA radon map gives no estimate at the centre of the townland of Arryheernabin.

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 Arryheernabin.

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

Name

Arryheernabin · Earra Thíre na Binne

Area

1,787,024 m² (178.7 ha, 441.58 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balloor, Pollet

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Arryheernabin 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.