Tirlin
Tirlin is a townland in the civil parish of Clondahorky, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 30.5 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 26
- registered freehold, median 4,744 m² (0.47 ha, 1.17 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tirlin, from 80 m² to 88,008 m² (8.8 ha, 21.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Tirlin 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
22 Dec 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO & REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152596
2 Oct 2018Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851510
30 May 2018Conditional
RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/30255 COMPRISING OF THE ADDITION OF ROOF DORMERS, REVISED FENESTRATION DETAILS & REVISED DWELLING ORIENTATION AND FOR THE ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF SAID DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850859
24 Jan 2018Refused
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850085
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 Tirlin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Tirlin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Tirlin.
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 Tirlin, 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 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 Tirlin.
- 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 Tirlin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Tirlin
- Area
- 305,366 m² (30.54 ha, 75.46 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondahorky, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Creeslough, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 783 people lived in 329 households in the Creeslough electoral division. 64% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Garvary Mountain, Grogagh, Killoughcarran, Rosscad
- Placenames
- Tirlin 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.