Tirkillin

59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirkillin, from 306 m² to 186,429 m² (18.64 ha, 46.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Tirkillin 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.

• 24 Jun 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561059

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) (A) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ATTACHED STORE AND (B) DEMOLITION OF DETACHED SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) PART TWO STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (B) SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE AND RETAINING WALL AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461943

• 25 Nov 2024N/a

  (1) (A) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ATTACHED STORE AND (B) DEMOLITION OF DETACHED SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) PART TWO STOREY, PART SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (B) SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE AND RETAINING WALL AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF REPLACEMENT SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461913

• 11 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DETACHED, TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED, TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461068

• 7 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) CONVERSION OF FIRST FLOOR ATTIC TO INCLUDE MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS, 2 NO. DORMER TYPE WINDOWS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460105

• 28 Jul 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151501

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leannan Valley Woods 001155

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirkillin.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirkillin.

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

At the centre of the townland of Tirkillin, about 1 in 10 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Tirkillin.

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.

No address of the register names Tirkillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tirkillin · Tír Chillín

Area

1,943,815 m² (194.38 ha, 480.33 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Termon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloncarney, Doon, Drumlurgagh, Gortnalaragh, Loughaskerry, Tirargus

Placenames

Tirkillin 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.