Dunbin Little
Dunbin Little is a townland in the civil parish of Dunbin, barony of Dundalk Upper, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is Dún Binne Beag.
Parcel 1123943
- Area
- 90,940 m² (9.09 ha, 22.47 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 1,690 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Dunbin Little
Planning applications on this parcel
9 Jun 2026N/a
Permission will consist of a 2 storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2675
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2927 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 60 ha
- 148 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 163 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dunbin Little, from 3 m² to 90,940 m² (9.09 ha, 22.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Dunbin Little 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
9 Jun 2026N/a
Permission will consist of a 2 storey dwelling house, a domestic garage, a domestic wastewater treatment system with all associated site development works.
Permission, 2 homes · Louth County Council, 2675
20 Dec 2021Conditional
permission for the construction of an agricultural entrance to agricultural lands and for associated site works
Permission · Louth County Council, 211509
19 Jul 2019Conditional
Permission for alterations to an existing single storey garage and store, to include for new first floor store/home gym and all associated site development works. **Significant Further Information received 14/11/2019 to allow for revised site plan and revised garage and store details**
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19577
28 Mar 2019Conditional
Permission for demolition of existing outbuildings, extensions and alterations to existing two storey dwelling, alterations to an existing garage/store, new effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site development works.
Permission, 1 home · Louth County Council, 19230
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 Dunbin Little.
Recorded monuments
- LH006-088002 Enclosure
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Suggestions of a cropmark possibly representing an enclosure on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 42).
- LH006-088004 Enclosure
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark ring defining sub-circular enclosure (max. diam. c. 32m) on aerial photograph (CUCAP, AYM 42).
- LH006-088005 Ring-ditch
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Cropmark ring (diam. c. 16m). (CUCAP, AYM 42)
- LH006-098 Souterrain
Description
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Souterrain consisting of a passage (L c. 4m, Wth 1.2m, H 1m) running N-S with a drop-hole at the N end giving access to a second passage (L c. 5m, Wth 1.2m, H 1m) continuing N. At the N end of the second passage is a second drop-hole giving access to a third passage running W (3.5m) then N (3m) and terminating in a beehive chamber (diam. 3m, H 1.5m). (CLAJ 1932, 497-9)
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dunbin Little.
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 Dunbin Little, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2927 (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 Dunbin Little with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- Name
- Dunbin Little · Dún Binne Beag
- Area
- 600,040 m² (60 ha, 148.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dunbin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dundalk Upper
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinclare, Dunbin Big, Knockatavy, Knockcor, Mullabohy, Rathiddy
- Placenames
- Dunbin Little 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.