Binroe

112 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Binroe, from 65 m² to 90,313 m² (9.03 ha, 22.32 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 Binroe 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.

• 22 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SHED WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460373

• 16 May 2022Refused

  DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250855

• 20 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SPLIT-LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF AN ACCESS ROAD, EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, LANDSCAPING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152559

• 11 Aug 2021Refused

  DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151611

• 29 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SITE WORKS INCLUDING REDUCED LEVEL EXCAVATIONS TO PROVIDE SUITABLE LEVELS FOR THE BUILDING, VEHICULAR ACCESS & CIRCULATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850466

• 11 Oct 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751537

• 24 Aug 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751302

• 5 Apr 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER & UNDERLYING SOIL POLISHING FILTER

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750499

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 Binroe.

Recorded monuments

• DG097-029 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, enveloped by bushes and small trees, stands on a level patch of ground overlooking Killybegs Harbour, 150m to the W, and is itself overlooked by higher ground closeby to the E. The locality provides poorish pasture broken by occasional rock outcrops. The tomb, which stands in a long cairn, consists of a two-chambered gallery preceded at the ENE by a court. A field wall crosses the NE sector of the cairn and may account for some distortion of its northern perimeter. The cairn is now 25.5m long and 10m wide at the E, from where it broadens to 16.3m at around mid-length and then narrows to c. 11m near its western extremity. A line of three stones, c. 5 .5m beyond the back of the gallery, marks a drop of 0.3m in cairn level. These stones may indicate the original outline of the cairn, but their status remains to be confirmed. This line of stones is 4m long. None of them exceeds 0.4m in exposed height or 0.9m in length. Approximately 1m to the W the top of another stone protrudes c. 0.2m above the surface. At the E end of the cairn is a large prostrate slab, 1.8m by 0.8m. The cairn is now largely grass grown, but its stone make-up is visible in small exposures and in a pit measuring 4m by 3m by 0.5m deep immediately behind the back of the gallery. The entrance jambs of the gallery form the inner ends of the arms of a court, the original design of which is uncertain. It now measures 5m in length and 5.3m in greatest width. The status of two set stones at more or less right angles to the outer end of the northern arm and opposite the gallery entrance is unclear, and they are not hatched on the plan. They may have formed part of a field fence. The northern one is 0.2m high, and the southern is 0.4m high. The entrance jambs are 0.75m apart. The northern one is 0.5m high. A low stone immediately in front of the jamb may have been split from it. The southern jamb, transversely set, is 0.6m high. There are two courtstones, 1.5m apart, beyond this jamb. That next to the jamb is a large stone, 0.4m high, and the other is 0.25m high. There are three courtstones on the northern side. That next to the northern jamb is a large slab, 0.4m high. Beyond this are two smaller slabs both incorporated in the wall crossing the site. That adjoining the large slab is 0.3m high, and the other is 0.7m high. The gallery, c. 5.5m long, is divided into two chambers by a pair of jambs. The front chamber is c. 2m long and 2.4m wide. A single orthostat, 0.15m high, forms its S side. The adjacent entrance jamb rises 0.6m above it. One orthostat, 0.5m high, survives at the inner half of the N side of the chamber. The segmenting jambs are 0.65m apart and set inside the gallery sides. The northern one, transversely set, is 0.8m high, and the southern is 0.7m high. The rear chamber is 3m long and narrows from an estimated 2.2m just inside the segmenting jambs to 1.5m at the back. A single orthostat, 0.7m high, forms the N side of this chamber. A lone orthostat survives at the inner end of the S side. This rises from ground level at its outer end to 0.4m high at its inner end. A backstone set inside the end of this closes the chamber and is 0.35m high. The top of this stone is slightly gabled and may have been more markedly so, as a piece seems to have been detached from its top. A displaced slab, 0.85m by 0.75m by 0.15m thick, lies in this chamber, and another, 1m by 0.9m by 0.35m thick, lies just beyond its NW corner. Thomas Fagan (1845-8) visited this monument in 1847, when it appears to have been in much the same condition as it is now. He was told that stones had been removed from the structure in 1830 for use as building material. Fagan 1845-8, book 19, 23-4 (with schematic ground plan); OS Revision Name Book, sheet 97 (1847-9), 20; de Valera 1960, 110, DG. 28 (plan); Ó Nualláin 1983a, 16-18, no. 8 (with plan); SMR 1987, 97:29; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 97:29. 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 Binroe.

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, moderately low (inferred), 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 Binroe.

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

Name

Binroe · An Bhinn Rua

Area

1,517,322 m² (151.73 ha, 374.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyloughan, Carntullagh, Tawnasligo

Placenames

Binroe 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.