Ballina

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 738 m² to 133,909 m² (13.39 ha, 33.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballina 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.

• 15 Nov 2025Conditional

  RENOVATIONS AND AMENDMENTS CARRIED OUT TO EXISTING DWELLING AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTED DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561994

• 12 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460321

• 6 Jul 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350981

• 27 Jun 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350912

• 16 Dec 2021Conditional

  REPLACEMENT OF A 25M TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE STRUCTURE WITH A 30M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LATTICE STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152522

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1900–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1910, having single-bay single-storey canted bay windows to either side of the central doorway to the front elevation (east), and with two-storey extension to the rear (west). Hipped natural slate roof having overhanging eaves with painted timber fascia, clay ridge tiles with decorative finials, and a central pair of yellow brick chimneystacks with flat copings and decorative clayware pots. Flat roofs to rear extension, moulded cornice to canted bays. Smooth rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation. Shallow-segmental-headed window openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, painted concrete sills, and with render hoodmouldings over window openings at first floor level to front elevation. Central segmental-headed door opening having moulded architraved surround, flanking pilasters with architrave\cornice over, timber panelled door with top light, and with flanking sidelights over timber panels. Set back from road in extensive mature grounds with garden to front. Single-storey outbuilding to the rear (west) having pitched artificial slate roof with red brick chimneystack, smooth rendered walls, and square-headed openings. Bounded on road-frontage by rubble stone boundary wall. Gateway to the south-east corner of site comprising a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having decorative render detailing, domed smooth rendered caps, cornices, and with a pair wrought-iron gates with cast-iron finials; gateway flanked with either side by curved sections of smooth rendered boundary wall terminated by smooth rendered piers (on square-plan) having decorative render detailing, domed smooth rendered caps and cornices.

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 Ballina, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

• Ballina, Falcarragh13 sales

Name

Ballina

Area

348,458 m² (34.85 ha, 86.11 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rosnakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Moross, Rosnakill, Tawny

Placenames

Ballina 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.