Ballindrait

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballindrait, from 47 m² to 114,732 m² (11.47 ha, 28.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Ballindrait 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.

• 19 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GRAIN STORE, MILL WAREHOUSE AND SERVICE YARD TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE EXISTING MILLING FACILITY, (2) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DISPATCH SHED AND CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MILL AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GABION RETAINING WALL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND BOUNDARY FENCING TO THE SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST AND NORTH BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660451

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW GRAIN STORE, MILL WAREHOUSE AND SERVICE YARD TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE EXISTING MILLING FACILITY, (2) EXTENSION ON TO THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF THE EXISTING MILL AND (3) A NEW GABION RETAINING WALL, ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND BOUNDARY FENCING TO THE SOUTHWEST, NORTHWEST AND NORTH BOUNDARIES OF THE SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660163

• 23 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461495

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  PRIVATE DOMESTIC SHED TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251460

• 5 Aug 2022N/a

  EXISTING PRIVATE DOMESTIC SHED TO THE SIDE OF MY EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251337

• 12 Apr 2022Refused

  DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250641

• 27 Jul 2020N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FOUL SEWAGE MECHANICAL TREATMENT PLANT AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING FOUNDATIONS & SUB FLOOR

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051006

• 25 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050209

• 4 Feb 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FOUL SEWAGE MECHANICAL TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050094

• 9 Dec 2019N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951912

• 4 Dec 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF 2 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH FOUL SEWAGE MECHANICAL TREATMENT PLANT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951868

• 5 Jul 2017Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A 2 STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, (2) RETENTION FOR A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) ALTERATION AND COMPLETION OF WORKS TO THE GARAGE MAKING PROVISION FOR THE PROPOSED EXTENSION WORKS TO THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751047

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 Ballindrait.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-081 Bridge
  Description

  This bridge gives its name to the town of Ballindrait (Baile an Droicheaid - the town or place of the bridge), and there may have been a bridge here by the early 17th century at the latest. The village probably dates from the Plantation-era. A bridge is depicted here on Moll’s map of Ireland (1714) while the town is indicated as Ballindrait; this suggests that this was the site of a bridge for a period by this date. The current triple-arched structure with V-profile cutwaters probably dates to the first half of the 18th century and it is possible that it might contain within it elements of earlier fabric (pers. comm. T.J. O'Meara). The attached image is uploaded courtesy of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 07 November 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ballindrait Bridge, bridge, 1700–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch slightly humpbacked bridge carrying road over the Deele River, built c. 1740 and altered c. 1900, having partially rendered stepped V-profile rubble stone cutwaters to piers. Modern concrete underpinning to piers and cutwaters. Segmental-headed arches to south and north ends of bridge having rubble stone voussoirs, and rubble stone construction arch barrels. Round-headed arch to central pier having red brick voussoirs, c. 1900, and with rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Rubble stone construction to piers, abutments, and spandrels having remains of render over. Cast-iron pattrice plate to the south end. Rubble stone parapets with rubble stone over parapet to central arch, and with cement coping elsewhere. Modern blockwork repairs to parapets in places. Rubble stone and modern wing walls to either end of parapets (north and south). Tarmacadam deck. Located to the south end of the village of Ballindrait.

• Ballindrait Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1800–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey Presbyterian church, built c. 1810 and altered c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey vestry to north-west, single-bay single-storey boiler extension to the south-west. Pitched natural slate roof with rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, chimneystack to the south-west end to rear pitch of roof, and having raised ashlar copings to gable ends. Pitched natural slate roof to vestry and extension with mono-pitched natural slate roof to boiler house. Roughcast rendered walls over projecting roughcast rendered plinth. Pointed-headed window openings to the south-east elevation with chamfered dressed ashlar surrounds, intersecting dressed ashlar tracery, chamfered ashlar sills, and with leaded windows with coloured panes to margins. Pointed-headed window openings to the rear (north-west) with chamfered dressed ashlar surrounds, dressed ashlar Y-tracery (to two openings), chamfered ashlar sills, and with leaded windows with coloured panes to margins. Round-headed window opening to south-west having smooth render surround with drip mould over, and with stained glass window with secondary glazing over. Pointed-arched doorway to the north-east gable end having chamfered ashlar sandstone surround, plinth blocks, battened timber door, and multi-paned overlight. Square-headed doorway to vestry with battened timber door. Timber pews and pulpit to interior, gallery having panelled timber balustrade\parapet. Set back from and parallel to road with five-bay two-storey Sunday school building to the north-west of site, dated 1878, having pitched artificial slate roof, roughcast rendered walls with date stone to south-east gable, square-window headed openings with painted concrete sills and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows at first floor level with replacement windows to ground floor, and with square-headed doorways with battened timber doors. Graveyard to the north-west. Car-park to site. Bounded on road-fronted to the south-east with rubble stone plinth wall with ashlar coping and wrought- and cast-iron railings over. Rubble stone walls to other site boundaries. Gateway to the east of site having metal gate posts, rubble stone gate piers (on circular-plan), and wrought- and cast-iron gates. Located to the centre of Ballindrait.

• Goods shed, 1905–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached double-height former railway goods shed associated with the former Ballindrait railway station (demolished), built c. 1909, having projecting cantilevered canopy over loading bay to the north end. Now out of use, in use as outbuilding with modern house adjacent to the east. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, timber fascia to eaves and remains of cast-iron rainwater goods. Corrugated-metal roof to overhanging canopy to north. Squared and mildly rock-faced rubble stone walls with cement rendered block-and-start quoins to the corners. Round-headed window openings to the gable apexes to the west and east gable ends having rusticated cement rendered surrounds, concrete sills, and remains of metal radial windows. Square-headed loading bays to the centre of the north and south elevations having rusticated cement rendered block-and-start surrounds, and battened timber sliding doors with metal railed sliding mechanism. Set back from road in own grounds to the east of Ballindrait and adjacent to the north of the former Strabane and Letterkenny railway line. Former railway stationmaster’s house (see 40834011) and site of former railway station to the east, ancillary railway structure to the west.

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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_1927 (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.

• Ballindrait, Lifford6 sales

Name

Ballindrait · Baile an Droichid

Area

431,239 m² (43.12 ha, 106.56 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonleigh North electoral division: 1,429 people in 520 households; 84% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynabreen, Birdstown, Cavanacor, Drumnaha, Guystown, Millsessiagh, Moneen, Tamnawood

Placenames

Ballindrait 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.