Killin

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killin, from 18 m² to 174,406 m² (17.44 ha, 43.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Killin 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.

• 18 Mar 2020Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050346

• 23 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851623

• 16 Oct 2018Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING DERELICT HOUSE WITH A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851593

• 26 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING ON-SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851151

• 1 Dec 2017Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751821

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  ALTERATIONS TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING RAISING THE ROOF TO ONE AND A HALF STOREY, EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750277

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 Killin.

Recorded monuments

• DG092-003 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument is on rush-grown land on the lower SE slopes of Killin Hill and above the basin of the Eany Water River, which flows southward into Inver Bay just over 5km to the S. It now consists of a grass-grown mound, a long oval in outline, near the centre of which is a single upright stone. The mound measures c. 33m N-S by 22m in overall width and lm in average height. Its surface has been disturbed by digging. The lone set stone here measures 0.8m by 0.8m by 0.85m high. In the 1950s Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin established from both local information and an examination of the site that this stone had stood as the western jamb of a chamber that lay to its N. The socket of a presumed sidestone ran northward from this stone, and the socket of another presumed sidestone lay E of and opposite the last. Another socket, the presumed position of a backstone or a segmenting feature, ran between the northern ends of the two opposed sockets. At this period another set stone stood 7m N of the one still extant, but it had been removed by 1983. This stone measured 1.4m long (E-W), 0.15m thick and 0.5m high. Narrow holes, clearly traceable in the ground in the 1950s, to the N of and parallel to this orthostat appeared to indicate the former position of two or more slabs. The whole arrangement at the site pointed to the remains being those of a court tomb with a subsidiary chamber (de Valera 1960, 108-9). Descriptions in the OS Name Books, though imprecise, testify to the megalithic character of the monument before it was largely demolished. It was first shown on the 1847-50 edition of the OS 6-inch map, where the northern one of two small rectangles is named 'Giant's Grave' and the southern one 'Carricknabraher'. In the accompanying OS Revision Name Book 'Carricknabraher' is described as 'a conspicuous ruin...said to be a house, where friars formerly officiated', and the 'Giant's Grave' was simply described as 'a remarkable grave of granite stone'. Another entry in the same Name Book describes both features as 'two objects in the form of tombs (open at top) comprised of rough flags set on their ends'. In the OS Name Book compiled during the 1:2,500 survey of this area in 1904, the feature named 'Carricknabraher' is described as follows: 'A number of large flags form the walls of a square enclosure having a doorway on the S side. There are also several long stones let into the ground forming graves.' The term 'Giant's Grave' is recorded as applying to 'a number of long flags fixed deeply into the earth and about one foot [c. 0.3m] remaining above the surface forming the shape of a grave 25 links by 10 links [c. 5m by 2m]'. OS Revision Name Book, sheet 92 (1847-50), 39, 41, 43; OS 1:2,500 Name Book, sheet 92 (1900-1905), 9; MacHugh 1959, 166 ('Killian'); de Valera 1960, 108-9, DG. 22; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 22, no. 28; SMR 1987, 92:3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 92:3. 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 Killin.

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 high, moderately high, 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 Killin.

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

Name

Killin

Area

1,873,931 m² (187.39 ha, 463.06 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bonnyglen electoral division: 387 people in 142 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacahil, Carraduffy, Clogheravaddy, Drumnacarry, Meenagran, Meenagranoge

Placenames

Killin 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.