Bin

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bin, from 398 m² to 46,240 m² (4.62 ha, 11.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bin 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.

• 7 Jul 2026Refused

  ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650094

• 9 Jun 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650085

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561650

• 27 Feb 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER EXTENSION AND ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING HOLIDAY HOME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350224

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING THE REMODELLING OF THE WINDOW FENESTRATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152583

• 5 Nov 2021N/a

  INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING THE REMODELLING OF THE WINDOW FENESTRATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152189

• 22 Nov 2019Conditional

  YARD AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING A SLATTED AREA, A DRY BEDDED AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951818

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bin.

Recorded monuments

• DG028-019 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  This monument, not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, is on the SE side of a rocky ridge c. 150m E of the Drumhallagh River, which flows into Lough Swilly c. 500m N of the site. The tomb opens downhill to the SE, in which direction it commands an outlook over Lough Swilly. It consists of a small roofless chamber that originally would have been 2m or a little more in length and is 1.4m wide. Entry to the chamber is between two longitudinally set portal-stones. Only the butt of the eastern one survives. This stone was intact in 1929 (Somerville 1929) but had been reduced to its present state by 1975. Two slabs form the sides of the chamber, both leaning inward against an inset backstone, the top of which is very slightly gabled. The western portal-stone is 1.55m high. The surviving part of the eastern portal-stone is 0.35m high. When intact, it was around the same height as its fellow (Somerville 1929). The eastern sidestone, which overlaps the adjacent portal-stone, would stand 1.35m high if upright. From around mid-length the base of this stone slants upward from ground level so that its inner end is clear of the present floor of the chamber. The western sidestone, if upright, would stand 1.5m high. It and the adjacent portal-stone stand more or less in line and 0.5m apart. The backstone leans inward slightly and is 1.3m high. Somerville 1929, 171 (plan); de Valera 1951, 177, fn. 11; Ò Nualláin 1968a, 296, no. 8; Ò Nualláin 1983a, 30, no. 48 (plan); Ò Nualláin 1983b, 94, Donegal no. 8; SMR 1987, 28: 19; Ò Nualláin 1989, 124; RMP 1995, 28: 19. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002)

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bin.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bin.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Bin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bin

Area

99,705 m² (9.97 ha, 24.64 acres)

Civil parish

Killygarvan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmullan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmullan electoral division: 965 people in 357 households; 75% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 47% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clondallan, Drumhallagh Lower, Saltpans

Placenames

Bin 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.