Bingorms

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bingorms, from 1,556 m² to 451,192 m² (45.12 ha, 111.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Bingorms 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.

• 19 May 2023Conditional

  RIVER HABITAT RESTORATION WORKS ALONG THE BARRA RIVER. THESE WORKS INCLUDE: INSTALLATION OF FENCING, PLANTING OF TREES AND SOFT ENGINEERING RIVERBANK PROTECTION WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350687

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  ERECTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SHED TO INCLUDE CONCRETE FLOOR FARM MACHINERY STORAGE AREA AND CONCRETE SLATTED AREA WITH UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851004

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: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bingorms.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bingorms · Na Beanna Gorma

Area

6,810,679 m² (681.07 ha, 1,682.96 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Dunlewy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunlewy electoral division: 689 people in 273 households; 88% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 23% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Befflaght, Commeen, Drumnalifferny Mountain, Dunlewy Far, Loughbarra or Croagheen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Bingorms 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.