Ballintlieve

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintlieve, from 2 m² to 466,370 m² (46.64 ha, 115.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballintlieve 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.

• 22 Apr 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL STORAGE AND MACHINERY SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150732

• 18 Nov 2019Conditional

  EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951788

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 Ballintlieve.

Recorded monuments

• DG019-002 Anomalous stone group
  Description

  Marked 'Laght' on the map, all that was located was a possible foundation. It consists of approximately 12 large stones set in a circular formation, with a gap .5m wide, possibly constituting an entrance in the NE quadrant. The internal diameter is 1.9m. It is situated at the foot of Ballintlieve Hill which rises sharply on the SE side in very rough rocky terrain. 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

• DG019-003 Mound
  Description

  A low subrectangular mound, defined by a stone wall some 2-3 courses high, with a depression in the centre, where there is a small upright stone. The mound is 4.5m N-S × 2.5m E-W. The site is locally known as the 'Priest's Grave'. It is situated on the lower SW slopes of Ballintlieve Hill, in rough uncultivated grazing land. 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

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, subsequently in use as a constabulary barracks, dated 1820, with double gabled two-storey return to rear, single-bay two-storey lean-to to south-east gable, single-storey flat-roofed block with crenellated parapet to north-west gable and modern sun room to front, now in use as house. Pitched slate roof to main house with clayware ridge tiles, smooth rendered chimneystacks with rendered cornice coping and polygonal terracotta pots to gables, replacement rainwater goods. Smooth rendered ruled-and-lined walls with smooth rendered block-and-start quoins. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered ogee surrounds with six-over-six, six-over-three, three-over-three, two-over-two and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, timber lattice casement windows to rear, all with stone sills. Square-headed door opening with smooth rendered surrounds and battened timber door with metal studs, glazed with latticework window; square-headed door opening with smooth rendered ogee surrounds and timber panelled door with metal studs; pointed-arch headed door opening to rear with smooth rendered surrounds and matchboard timber door with metal studs, approached by rendered steps flanked by smooth rendered splayed strings with decorative cast-iron handrail. Set within own grounds with garden to front and multiple-bay two-storey outbuilding to rear, with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered chimneystack with cornice coping and replacement rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered ogee surrounds and latticework casement windows. Square-headed door openings with smooth rendered ogee surrounds and matchboard timber doors.

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 Ballintlieve, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballintlieve.

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.

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

Name

Ballintlieve

Area

2,114,147 m² (211.41 ha, 522.42 acres)

Civil parish

Mintiaghs or Barr of Inch, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Mintiaghs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

890 people lived in 283 households in the Mintiaghs electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Altahalla, Ballinlough, Glasmullan, Meenadiff, Meendoran, Roosky

Placenames

Ballintlieve 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.