# Ballina, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 348,458 m² (34.85 ha, 86.11 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,902 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rosnakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16071 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50141 - Centre: latitude 55.195004, longitude -7.692494 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 738 m² to 133,909 m² (13.39 ha, 33.09 acres); 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1352467: 133,909 m² (13.39 ha, 33.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352467.md - Parcel 1401096: 116,067 m² (11.61 ha, 28.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401096.md - Parcel 1401188: 30,733 m² (3.07 ha, 7.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401188.md - Parcel 5532167: 7,190 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5532167.md - Parcel 1366239: 7,171 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366239.md - Parcel 1367627: 7,161 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367627.md - Parcel 1377167: 6,421 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377167.md - Parcel 3658510: 3,044 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658510.md - Parcel 6116416: 2,760 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6116416.md - Parcel 1399411: 2,387 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399411.md - Parcel 1305744: 2,120 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305744.md - Parcel 1321794: 1,898 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321794.md - Parcel 1395756: 1,777 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395756.md - Parcel 1367914: 1,632 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367914.md - Parcel 1315464: 1,545 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315464.md - Parcel 1330730: 738 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330730.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 15 Nov 2025, Donegal County Council 2561994: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561994/0 - 12 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460321: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460321/0 - 6 Jul 2023, Donegal County Council 2350981: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350981/0 - 27 Jun 2023, Donegal County Council 2350912: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350912/0 - 16 Dec 2021, Donegal County Council 2152522: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. REPLACEMENT OF A 25M TELECOMMUNICATIONS MONOPOLE STRUCTURE WITH A 30M HIGH TELECOMMUNICATIONS LATTICE STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAS, DISHES AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152522/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC, site code 002159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002159 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballina. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1900–1920, Regional interest, registry number 40901726, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901726. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballina. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ballina, Falcarragh: 13 sales, https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina-falcarragh.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Moross: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moross.md - Rosnakill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rosnakill.md - Tawny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-52480.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. 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; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballina - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballina