Cunlin
Cunlin is a townland in the civil parish of Upper Killybegs, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 112.1 ha
- 277 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 2,741 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cunlin, from 66 m² to 236,047 m² (23.6 ha, 58.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cunlin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Jun 2025Conditional
REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR INSTALLATION OF PROPRIETARY SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561053
15 Jun 2024Refused
10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION WHICH WILL CONSIST OF (1) UPGRADING OF APPROXIMATELY 0.7KM OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK AND EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2KM OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE, AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A 5.5M SPAN TEMPORARY BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460903
7 Jun 2024N/a
10 YEAR PLANNING PERMISSION FOR WORKS RELATING TO BRADÁN WIND FARM WHICH WILL CONSIST OF (1) THE UPGRADE OF APPROXIMATELY 0.7KM OF EXISTING ACCESS TRACK AND EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.2KM OF NEW ACCESS TRACKS AND NEW SITE ENTRANCE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A 5.5M SPAN TEMPORARY BRIDGE AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY INFRASTRUCTURE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460857
21 Aug 2023Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF ONE ENERCON E138 WIND TURBINE ON A 99M TOWER WITH AN ELECTRICAL RATING OF 4.2MW AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF 169M, (B) THE CONSTRUCTION OF WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA, (C) PROVISION OF A SITE ENTRANCE AND AN ACCESS TRACK WITHIN THE SITE, (D) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ON-SITE 20KV SUBSTATION AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351240
15 Jul 2022Refused
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) ONE ENERCON E138 WIND TURBINE ON AN 81M TOWER WITH AN ELECTRICAL RATING OF 4.2MW AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF 149.38 (B) THE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA (C) AN ON-SITE 20KV SUBSTATION AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A SITE ENTRANCE AND AN ACCESS TRACK WITHIN THE SITE (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251214
6 Feb 2019Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF ONE WIND TURBINE COMPRISING TOWER, NACELLE, AND ROTOR BLADES WITH A TOWER HEIGHT OF UP TO 67M METRES, A ROTOR BLADE DIAMETER OF UP TO 115.7 METRES AND AN OVERALL TIP HEIGHT OF UP TO 124.5 METRES. THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES A WIND TURBINE, TURBINE FOUNDATION, HARDSTANDING AND ASSEMBLY AREA, SITE ACCESS TRACK, ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE WORKS, UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE, 20kV ESB/IPP SUBSTATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950132
17 May 2017Conditional
INSTALLATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INTERMITTENT SAND FILTER & UNDERLYING SOIL POLISHING FILTER
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750752
14 Mar 2017Unconditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STORIED TYPE DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750377
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cunlin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Cunlin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cunlin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Cunlin, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1127 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cunlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Cunlin
- Area
- 1,120,519 m² (112.05 ha, 276.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Upper Killybegs, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Killybegs, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,333 people lived in 880 households in the Killybegs electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cornacahan, Corporation, Croaghlin, Crocknafeola, Cullion, Faiafannan, Letter, Meenachullalan, Meenyhooghan
- Placenames
- Cunlin 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.