Tirhomin
Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 234.5 ha
- 580 acres
- Land parcels
- 91
- registered freehold, median 2,612 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
91 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirhomin, from 18 m² to 319,554 m² (31.96 ha, 78.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Tirhomin 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
4 Jun 2026Conditional
EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661031
27 May 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660977
4 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450199
18 Jun 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460916
16 Mar 2023Refused
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2350340
21 May 2021Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING CONSERVATORY TO SOUTH AND BAY WINDOWS TO WEST OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING (2) CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SOUTH AND ONE INFILL EXTENSION TO WEST OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150993
21 Dec 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851986
19 Sept 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACCESS TRACK & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING DRAINAGE AND UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES TO SERVE PERMITTED SINGLE WIND TURBINE (PLANNING REFERENCE 16/50297 & 11/40003 REFER)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851455
16 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850238
31 Jan 2018N/a
CONTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850120
12 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A 20KV OVERHEAD & UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE TO SERVE APPROVED WINDFARM DEVELOPMENT. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751115
24 Mar 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE AND AN ON SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750452
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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
Recorded monuments
- DG027-030 Ringfort - rath
Description
A site named 'Ballyboe Fort' on the OS 6-inch map appears to have been misread as 'Ballyboe Altar' and consequently described as a 'prehistoric chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). It is a ringfort (Lacy 1983). Killanin and Duignan 1962, 373; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 374; Lacy 1983, 193, no. 1147; SMR 1987, 27:30; RMP 1995, 27:30. 'Ballyboe Fort' marked on the OS 6-inch maps now consists of a flat-topped platform c. 40m N-S and 32m E-W. The E side, however, has been partially levelled. The platform is from 1m to 2.5m above the surrounding land. Very vague traces of a perimeter bank are visible in some places. A field boundary crosses the site N-S on the E side. The site is located on a low E-W ridge in undulating ·pasture land.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirhomin.
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
- 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 Tirhomin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Tirhomin, Milford5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Tirhomin
- Area
- 2,345,323 m² (234.53 ha, 579.54 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Millford, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Millford electoral division: 1,633 people in 608 households; 72% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garrygort, Garrymore, Gortnavern, Urbalshinny
- Placenames
- Tirhomin 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.