# Bin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killygarvan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 99,705 m² (9.97 ha, 24.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 1,016 m² - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killygarvan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killygarvan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rathmullan, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16020 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50331 - Centre: latitude 55.137206, longitude -7.536301 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bin, from 398 m² to 46,240 m² (4.62 ha, 11.43 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1332000: 46,240 m² (4.62 ha, 11.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332000.md - Parcel 1394182: 26,980 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394182.md - Parcel 1346678: 3,377 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346678.md - Parcel 1305703: 3,091 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305703.md - Parcel 1310093: 2,936 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310093.md - Parcel 1369507: 2,901 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369507.md - Parcel 1321756: 2,891 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321756.md - Parcel 1409157: 2,616 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1409157.md - Parcel 1331543: 2,307 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331543.md - Parcel 1372247: 1,200 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372247.md - Parcel 1380668: 831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380668.md - Parcel 1389076: 741 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389076.md - Parcel 1382763: 551 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382763.md - Parcel 1387026: 524 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387026.md - Parcel 1391579: 458 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391579.md - Parcel 1323597: 424 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323597.md - Parcel 1378788: 420 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378788.md - Parcel 1328008: 412 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328008.md - Parcel 1342888: 408 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342888.md - Parcel 1410819: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410819.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 7 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2650094: Refused. Permission. ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650094/0 - 9 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2650085: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF A DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650085/0 - 23 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561650: Conditional. Permission. RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561650/0 - 27 Feb 2023, Donegal County Council 2350224: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DORMER EXTENSION AND ELEVATIONAL AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING HOLIDAY HOME. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350224/0 - 22 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152583: Conditional. Permission. INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING THE REMODELLING OF THE WINDOW FENESTRATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152583/0 - 5 Nov 2021, Donegal County Council 2152189: N/a. Permission. INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS TO A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING INCLUDING THE REMODELLING OF THE WINDOW FENESTRATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152189/0 - 22 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951818: Conditional. Retention. YARD AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED INCORPORATING A SLATTED AREA, A DRY BEDDED AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951818/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG028-019: Megalithic tomb - portal tomb, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG028-019----. 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) 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Clondallan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clondallan.md - Drumhallagh Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumhallagh-lower.md - Saltpans: https://everytownland.com/donegal/saltpans-52346.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/bin