Killin
Killin is a townland in the civil parish of Clonca, barony of Inishowen East, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 116.5 ha
- 288 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 4,092 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killin, from 78 m² to 322,695 m² (32.27 ha, 79.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Sept 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561543
14 Apr 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO (A) AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED TO BOTH SIDE AND REAR (B) EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED TO REAR ONLY WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250669
14 Mar 2022N/a
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO (A) AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED TO BOTH SIDE AND REAR (B) EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED TO REAR ONLY WITH ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM YARD
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250436
10 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY FRONT, SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING, MINOR WINDOW ALTERATIONS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150859
19 Feb 2020Conditional
DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK WITH REPLACEMENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050181
5 Jul 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A 35.4 METRE HIGH STRUCTURE COMPRISING 30 METRE-HIGH LATTICEWORK TOWER WITH A 5.4 METRE-HIGH SPINE ABOVE WITH ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT ATTACHED INCLUDING DIGITAL BROADCAST EQUIPMENT, ANTENNAS, DISHES, AN ANTICLIMBING CAGE WITHIN ITS OWN CHAINLINK FENCE COMPOUND AND WITH CABLE GANTRY FROM THE NEW STRUCTURE TO EXISTING CONTAINER AND CABINS WITH THE SUBSEQUENT REMOVAL OF AN EXISTING 36-METRE HIGH STAYED MAST
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951026
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
- Special Area of Conservation: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Killin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Killin, about 1 in 5 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2102 (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 Killin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Killin
- Area
- 1,164,710 m² (116.47 ha, 287.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonca, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen East
- Electoral division
- Malin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 770 people lived in 272 households in the Malin electoral division. 69% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballagh, Ballycramsy, Drung, Goorey, Knockglass, Lag, Umgall
- 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.