Balleeghan Lower

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balleeghan Lower, from 454 m² to 174,680 m² (17.47 ha, 43.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 71 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Balleeghan Lower 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562121

• 14 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF PROPOSED NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561797

• 16 Oct 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF SHED TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461634

• 4 May 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A GARDEN HOUSE COMPRISING A STUDIO, SHED AND FACILITIES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350611

• 22 Mar 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250496

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTICE OUTBUILDING WITH AN ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250420

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED SINGLE-STOREY DWELLING, A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT WITH PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152397

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITON OF EXISTING FOUR BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY STYLE DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ROOMS, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 01/4661 (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT FOUR BEDROOM SINGLE STOREY STYLE DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING ATTIC ROOMS, WITH FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED FOUL TREATMENT SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 01/4661

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051078

• 3 Jul 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851015

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 Lower.

Recorded monuments

• DG004-031 Hilltop enclosure
  Description

  Internal Dimensions 140m NE-SW, 46m SE-NW. An oval hilltop area enclosed for the most part by a collapsed stone wall particularly at the SW where the slope is gradual. At other points, particularly the E, there is almost a sheer drop and the wall is less apparent or non-existent. The wall has collapsed up to 6m in width in places. There is a possible entrance in the S section E of a field boundary which crosses the wall N-S. The wall collapse incorporates many oval and circular clearings, noticed at other similar sites, and whose purpose was presumably quite recent. The interior abounds with rock outcrop and loose stones some of which could indicate structures. It is situated on the E-W summit of Doonmore Hill with extensive views. 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

• DG004-032 Mound
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG004-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked 'Cashlanaveeve' the site now consists only of a roughly circular plateau with a few remaining edge stones on the S side of Doonmore Hill in wet grass-covered ground. A modern field fence crosses the N side. 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

• DG004-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 13.1m. A circular raised area enclosed by a stone wall, a fosse up to 7.3m wide and a possible external stone wall. It is situated on a S sloping hill in rough moun-tain terrain with wide views. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balleeghan Lower.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2171 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Balleeghan Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Balleeghan Lower

Area

3,350,522 m² (335.05 ha, 827.93 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Culdaff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Culdaff electoral division: 1,027 people in 366 households; 76% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 32% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balleeghan Upper, Carthage, Drumcarbit, Dunross, Muff, Templemoyle

Placenames

Balleeghan Lower 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.