Balleeghan

146 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleeghan, from 30 m² to 109,193 m² (10.92 ha, 26.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 neighbouring parcels touch it.

No zone of a development plan covers Balleeghan 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.

• 12 Jun 2026Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR GABLE WINDOW TO THE EASTERN AND WESTERN ELEVATION, VELUX ROOF WINDOWS ON THE SOUTHERN ELEVATIONS OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661079

• 18 Nov 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, DETACHED GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562011

• 11 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO FRONT ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561376

• 25 Jul 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY PORCH TO FRONT ELEVATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561279

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SPLIT LEVEL DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561036

• 6 May 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO THE FRONT OF THE DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 99/139 AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ANNEX APARTMENT TO THE REAR OF THE DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560707

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462148

• 30 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460613

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460604

• 24 Apr 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION OVER PROPOSED DINING ROOM, (2) INCREASE IN WINDOW AT DINING ROOM TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460573

• 22 Apr 2024Conditional

  1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450113

• 27 Mar 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION OVER PROPOSED DINING ROOM, INCREASE IN WINDOW AT DINING ROOM TO FRONT ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460402

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  PROPOSED CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE AND GARAGE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50570 AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460157

• 18 Sept 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351393

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK, HIGH PITCHED ROOFED DWELLING HOUSE WITH FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/11268 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH SMALLER FOOTPRINT/OVERALL FLOOR AREA, WITH THE NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING FOUL DRAINAGE PIPEWORK TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/11268

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351187

• 3 Jul 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350955

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK, HIGH PITCHED ROOFED DWELLING HOUSE WITH FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/11268 AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT 1.5 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH SMALLER FOOTPRINT/OVERALL FLOOR AREA, WITH THE NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING FOUL DRAINAGE PIPEWORK TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL SYSTEM AS GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/11268

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350747

• 15 May 2023Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING TO REPLACE EXISTING CONSERVATORY AND ALSO THREE DORMER WINDOWS TO FRONT ELEVATION AND ANY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350674

• 28 Apr 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO STOREY DETACHED DWELLING AND SINGLE STOREY DETACHED GARAGE WITH THE PROVISION OF SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350570

• 15 Dec 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2252004

• 10 Oct 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251701

• 18 Jul 2022Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251221

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL TYPE 3 BAY SHED USED FOR THE STORAGE OF MARINE AQUACULTURE FARMING MACHINERY AND ASSOICATED EQUIPMENT

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051123

• 29 May 2020Conditional

  MOBILE HOME AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND TREATMENT PLANT AND FOR REMOVAL OF MOBILE HOME ON COMPLETION OF THE DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050692

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STOREY & HALF DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050547

The 25 most recent of 29 applications.

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 the townland of Balleeghan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balleeghan.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860. Rounded pitched thatched roof with netting restraint and metal rope stays to eaves, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping and terracotta pots to gables. Roughcast rendered walls, with whitewashed rubble walls to rear. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement battened timber door. Set within own grounds on elevated site with gravel driveway to front and embankment to rear.

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).

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

Name

Balleeghan

Area

3,531,107 m² (353.11 ha, 872.56 acres)

Civil parish

Lower Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Greencastle, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacarthur, Carrowhugh, Eleven Ballyboes, Glennagiveny

Placenames

Balleeghan on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.