Tullynavinn

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Tullynavinn, from 35 m² to 895,185 m² (89.52 ha, 221.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 55 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 Tullynavinn 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.

• 25 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED ABUTTING AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562069

• 2 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561715

• 18 Aug 2025Unconditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550108

• 10 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED ABUTTING TO EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051094

• 5 Mar 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, DETACHED GARAGE, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050273

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. ROOFED SILAGE PITS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950534

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Magheradrumman Bog SAC 000168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Magheradrumman Bog 000168

Recorded monuments

• DG021-015 Promontory fort - inland
  Description

  A spit of high ground with access from the NE known locally as a 'Doon', is cut off by a low stone wall extending across the neck. The interior is flat but very overgrown. It is difficult to decide whether the rock visible is outcrop or the remains of a structure. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG021-017 Sweathouse
  Description

  Marked on the 1903 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.

• DG021-019 Church
  Description

  Marked on 1903 ed. of OS 6-inch map as 'Church (in Ruins)'.

• DG021-019001 Graveyard
  Description

  'Graveyard', within which is located a 'Church (in Ruins)', marked on the 1903 ed. of the OS 6-inch map.

Architectural heritage

• Old Redcastle Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding three-bay former Church of Ireland church, dated 1747, now in ruins. Roofless, with fragment of bellcote to south gable. Uncoursed rubble stone walls with squared stone block-and-start quoins. Window openings to north, south and east elevations with splayed reveals. Segmental-arch headed doorway to west gable with inscription stone over. Set within own grounds with small single-storey former school house with remains of pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with battened timber door. Graveyard surrounding with several maritime related and early eighteenth-century gravemarkers. Bounded by rubble stone wall with angular rubble stone coping, rubble stone gate piers with pyramidal rubble stone coping and double wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1800, with two-bay single-storey slated extension to north gable. Pitched thatched roof, smooth rendered gable ended chimneystacks with rendered coping; cast-iron rainwater goods to extension. Smooth rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with timber casement windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening with replacement door. Set at side of laneway with multiple-bay single-storey outbuildings to south with pitched thatch and corrugated-metal roofs, roughcast rendered and whitewashed walls, and square-headed openings with matchboard timber doors.

• St. Finian's Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, consecrated 1853, on a roughly north-south orientation on a four-bay cruciform plan, projecting entrance porch to north and vestry to the south-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof with sandstone gable copings with carved springers, cut stone bellcote, and cast-iron rainwater goods on sandstone dentils. Dressed squared random rubble limestone walls with angle buttresses with ashlar quoins and skews, ashlar plinth course. Pointed-arch window openings with splayed ashlar surrounds, with crown glass in diamond-shaped cast-iron quarries, sexfoil window to west transept and below bellcote. Pointed-arch door opening with ashlar hoodmouldings, timber battened door with decorative wrought-iron hinges and wrought-iron furnishings; shoulder-headed door openings to east of chancel. Set within own grounds with replaced an earlier church, dated 1747, now in ruins in the graveyard. Cochrane memorial to south; church ruin and graveyard to north. Bounded to north by random rubble stone wall with squared block gate piers with wrought-iron gates.

• Carrickmaquigley Bridge, bridge, 1740–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch road bridge over river, built c. 1770. Round-headed arches with squared rubble voussoirs and random rubble to vaults. Random rubble parapet walls with vertical stone copings. Double carriageway to tarmacadam deck. Located on the same river north of Redcastle bridge (40903111).

• Red Castle, aviary/dovecote/pigeon house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-bay single-storey pigeon house, built c. 1780. Now disused. Pitched helm-type slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles. Random rubble stone walls with roughcast render to parts. Small circular opening to top of north and south gables. Square-headed door opening to north façade. Interior walls are punctured with square recesses, serving as pigeon roosts. Located to the east of Red Castle and to the south-east of the outbuildings, overlooking Lough Foyle.

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 Tullynavinn, 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 Tullynavinn.

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 Tullynavinn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Tullynavinn

Area

3,633,995 m² (363.4 ha, 897.98 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Redcastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

967 people lived in 314 households in the Redcastle electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrickmaquigley, Moneydarragh, Tullyally

Placenames

Tullynavinn 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.