Trillick
Trillick is a townland in the civil parish of Lower Fahan, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 178.8 ha
- 442 acres
- Land parcels
- 98
- registered freehold, median 2,589 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 14
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
98 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Trillick, from 0 m² to 154,784 m² (15.48 ha, 38.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Trillick 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
13 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2550066
27 Nov 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 02/4700 REFERS) AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN AND (2) ERECTION OF A GARDEN ROOM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461929
23 Sept 2024Conditional
(1) A 10-YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG DURATION ENERGY STORAGE (LDES) COMPOUND WITH A TOTAL SURFACE AREA OF C.2.9HA CONTAINING 248NO. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE UNITS IN THE FORM OF METAL SHIPPING CONTAINERS [APPROXIMATELY 12.2M (L) X 2.6M (W) AND 2.9M (H) EACH] AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONTROL AND VENTILATION EQUIPMENT; (2) INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND (C.3,600SQ M) TO FACILITATE AN UNDER-THE FENCE CONNECTION TO THE ADJACENT TRILLICK 110KV SUBSTATION. THE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND WILL INCLUDE A CONTROL BUILDING OF C.27SQ M, A 110 KV TRANSFORMER, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, AND AN UP TO 18M HIGH LIGHTNING PROTECTION MONOPOLE MAST; (3) A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND WITH A TOTAL SURFACE AREA OF C.1,500SQ M. C.515M OF NEW AND UPGRADED ACCESS TRACKS; 3NO. ENTRANCES FROM THE L-7231 PUBLIC ROAD COMPRISING THE UPGRADE OF 1NO. EXISTING ENTRANCE AND CREATION OF 1NO. NEW PERMANENT ACCESS AND 1NO. NEW TEMPORARY ACCESS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE FACILITY; (4) UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING BETWEEN THE PROPOSED LDES COMPOUND AND THE PROPOSED ON-SITE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND WHICH WILL CROSS UNDER THE L-7231 PUBLIC ROAD; (5) SECURITY LIGHTING; (6) POLE MOUNTED CCTV AND COMMUNICATIONS MAST; (7) ON-SITE FRESHWATER STORAGE TANK INCLUDING FRESH WATER TREATMENT UNIT IN THE FORM OF A METAL SHIPPING CONTAINER; (8) ON-SITE DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED VEGETATED ATTENUATION POND; (9) A STORAGE CONTAINER IN THE FORM OF A METAL SHIPPING CONTAINER; (10) SOUND REFLECTIVE BARRIERS TO A HEIGHT OF 4M; (11) SECURITY FENCING AND GATES; AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT, SERVICES AND CLEARANCE WORKS INCLUDING TREE FELLING OF C.4.7HA OF CONIFER PLANTATION; LANDSCAPING AND PLANTING. THE PROPOSED LDES FACILITY WILL BE OPERATIONAL FOR A PERIOD OF 30 YEARS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461497
10 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ONE AND A HALF STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351003
28 Jun 2023N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 1 1/2 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350921
27 Feb 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUSIVE OF BASEMENT LEVEL, TOGETHER WITH A DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350220
14 Mar 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH A DETACHED GARAGE, ONSITE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250434
14 Mar 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO MICA AFFECTED BLOCKWORK (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING ONSITE SERVICES GRANTED 03/5632 AND ASSOCIATED WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250435
16 Jun 2021Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, ERECTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151186
20 May 2021N/a
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150977
30 Apr 2021Conditional
RENOVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND TO BUILD A SHED OUTBUILDING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150801
6 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A ONE & A HALF STOREY DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951371
8 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950490
2 Jul 2018Refused
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING AND DETACHED GARAGE TOGETHER WITH AN ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851026
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 Trillick.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Trillick.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Trillick.
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 Trillick, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2013 (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 Trillick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Trillick
- Area
- 1,787,635 m² (178.76 ha, 441.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lower Fahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inishowen West
- Electoral division
- Buncrana Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,039 people lived in 1,386 households in the Buncrana Rural electoral division. 70% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghilly and Lenynarnan, Ballynahone, Bauville Keeloges and Clonglash, Gransha, Tullydush Lower
- Placenames
- Trillick 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.