Ballintra

48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintra, from 56 m² to 18,071 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballintra 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.

• 12 Jun 2026Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM AN EXISTING COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY VILLAGE UNDER PLANNING REF. NOS. 23/51077 & 25/61281 TO 12 NO. INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE DWELLINGS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 12 homes · Donegal County Council, 2661078

• 4 Jun 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY VILLAGE, PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 23/51077 AND 25/61281 REFERS, TO 12 NO. INDIVIDUAL PRIVATE DWELLINGS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661029

• 15 Sept 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. 3 BEDROOM DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO ALL MAIN SERVICES AND ALL ANCILLARY/ ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561586

• 25 Jul 2025Conditional

  EXTENSION TO EXISTING COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY VILLAGE GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 23/51077 WITH ERECTION OF 2 NO. NEW DWELLINGS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561281

• 21 Dec 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF ENCLOSED ACCESS STAIRS FROM GROUND FLOOR TO FIRST FLOOR AT FRONT OF SHOP, WITH ACCESS FROM ADJOINING BALLINTRA MAIN STREET, (2) PROVISION OF NEW ENTRANCE DOOR AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL ONTO MAIN STREET, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF FIRST FLOOR ENTRANCE AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING EXTERNAL STAIRS TO REAR OF PROPERTY AND (4) PROVISION OF NEW WINDOWS INCLUDING FIRE ESCAPE WINDOWS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462171

• 17 Oct 2024Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) 6 NO. 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS LOCATED WITHIN A SINGLE / TWO STOREY BUILDING, (B) 6 NO. 2 BEDROOM TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, (C) 6 NO. 3 BEDROOM TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES AND (D) 2 NO. 4 BEDROOM TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, 20 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS IN TOTAL, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND CAR PARKING FACILITIES TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF PEDESTRIAN FOOTPATH TO CONNECT TO EXISTING FOOTPATH TO THE SOUTH OF THE DEVELOPMENT SITE, (3) INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC LIGHTING THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPMENT, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) FOUL SEWER NETWORK WHICH SHALL BE PUMPED (322M) TO CONNECT INTO EXISTING FOUL SEWER AND (B) STORM WATER DRAINAGE NETWORK INCLUDING ATTENUATION TANK, AND INSTALLATION OF A WATERMAIN NETWORK TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND (5) PROVISION OF PUBLIC OPEN SPACE AMENITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 14 homes · Donegal County Council, 2461649

• 24 Jul 2023Refused

  CHANGE OF USE FROM 8 NO. EXISTING SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES TO A COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY VILLAGE AND CHANGE OF USE FROM 2 NO. PROPOSED SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANING REF: 20/51518 TO A COMMERCIAL HOLIDAY VILLAGE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 10 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351077

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  REMOVAL OF PART OF THE FRONT BOUNDARY WALL TO CREATE AN AREA FOR OFF STREET PARKING, INCLUDING PROVISION OF DROP KERBS TO THE EXISTING FOOTPATH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152406

• 9 Nov 2021N/a

  REMOVAL OF PART OF THE FRONT BOUNDARY WALL TO CREATE AN AREA FOR OFF STREET PARKING, INCLUDING PROVISION OF DROP KERBS TO THE EXISTING FOOTPATH

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152205

• 10 May 2021N/a

  REMOVAL OF FIRST FLOOR DOOR AND PLATFORM AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CREATION OF ENCLOSED ACCESS STAIRS FROM GROUND FLOOR TO FIRST FLOOR AT REAR OF RETAIL AREA WITH ACCESS TO ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD (2) REMOVAL OF 2 NO. WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (3) CREATION OF A NEW CORRIDOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (4) ADDITION OF A VELUX ROOFLIGHT TO KITCHEN OF APARTMENT NO. 2 (5) ADDITION OF VELUX ROOFLIGHT TO NEW CORRIDOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (6) REMOVAL OF DOOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL TO NORTHWEST ELEVATION (7) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150866

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. SEMI DETACHED DWELLINGS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2051518

• 13 Nov 2019N/a

  (1) ERECTION OF ENCLOSED ACCESS STAIRS FROM GROUND FLOOR TO FIRST FLOOR AT REAR OF SHOP, WITH ACCESS FROM ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD (2) REMOVAL OF EXISTING TOILET AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW TOILET (3) FORMATION OF A NEW ACCESS DOOR TO STORE AT REAR (4) RELOCATION OF EXISTING STAIRS IN EXISTING STORE (5) REMOVAL OF 2 NO WINDOWS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (6) CLOSURE OF EXISTING DOORWAY AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (7) CREATION OF A NEW CORRIDOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (8). ADDITION OF A VELUX ROOFLIGHT TO KITCHEN OF APARTMENT NO.2 (9) ADDITION OF A VELUX ROOFLIGHT TO NEW CORRIDOR AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL (10) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951745

• 31 Oct 2019Refused

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF DOMESTIC DWELLING TO USE AS A MONTESSORI SCHOOL AND EXTENSION TO THE SAME (2) CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING FROM USE AS A DOMESTIC STORE TO USE AS AN OUTDOOR PLAY AREA AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF STAFF CAR PARKING AND CREATION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVE THE SAME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951647

• 14 Oct 2019N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE OF DOMESTIC DWELLING TO USE AS A MONTESSORI SCHOOL AND EXTENSION TO THE SAME (2) CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING OUTBUILDING FROM USE AS A DOMESTIC STORE TO USE AS AN OUTDOOR PLAY AREA AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF STAFF CAR PARKING AND CREATION OF VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO SERVE THE SAME

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951542

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF THE PUBLIC HOUSE PREMISES FORMERLY KNOWN AS JAMSIE'S BAR TO 3 NO. RESIDENTIAL UNITS WHICH WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) 1 NO. 3 STOREY DWELLING HOUSE TO FRONT OF BUILDING (FORMER BAR AREA), (2) 2 NO. SINGLE STOREY RESIDENTIAL UNITS TO REAR (FORMER LOUNGE/STORE AREA), (3) PROVISION OF CAR PARKING TO REAR, (4) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO FRONT & SIDE ELEVATIONS AND (5) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 3 homes · Donegal County Council, 1851074

• 22 Aug 2017N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW NURSING HOME CONSISTING OF 64 SINGLE BEDROOMS AND ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AT GROUND FLOOR AND OFFICE AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR (2) SEWAGE PUMPING STATION (3) WORKS ON ADJOINING LANDS TO CONSIST OF NEW FOOTPATH (4) WORKS ON ADJOINING LANDS TO CONSIST OF RISING FOUL MAIN FROM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION DISCHARGING TO PUBLIC SEWER AT BALLINTRA/ROSSNOWLAGH JUNCTION ON THE N15 AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751287

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 Ballintra.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintra.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1810–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1800, with former grocery shop to ground floor (closed c. 1997), rectangular in plan, rectangular return to east, rectangular extension to north side of east return. Pitched slate roof to main body of house and west return, lean-to artificial slate roof to northeast extension, blue-black clay ridge tiles, rectangular rendered chimney stack to east gable to east return with stepped caps to main body of house, projecting rendered eaves to main body of house, moulded aluminium gutters and uPVC downpipes to west side, half-rounded cast-iron guttering and round downpipes to east side and east return. ruled and lined rendered west side, roughcast rendered north and east sides and east return, rendered northeast extension, smooth rendered plinth, rendered rusticated quoins to west side and northeast corner to north extension. Square-headed window openings, rendered masonry sill painted timber single pane sliding sash windows with rendered moulded surrounds to west side, painted timber six glass panes fixed frame window to ground floor to west side, painted timber six-over-six sliding sash windows to first floor to north side of east return, replacement painted timber and wood-grained casement windows to east side of main body of house and east return. Square-headed entrance door openings to west side, replacement painted timber half-glazed panelled door (with painted timber ribbed glass pane) overlight c. 1970), replacement painted timber bolection moulded flat panel door surmounted by painted timber moulded transom and painted timber overlight, rendered projecting plinth and blocks, rendered moulded architrave surrounds, painted timber vertically-sheeted door to north side of northeast extension with chamfered top reveal. House street fronted to west, back yard to east with two-storey pitched slate roof rubble stone wall outbuilding to northeast with blocked entrance openings to north side and first floor to west side with rubble stone voussoirs.

• Water pump, 1890–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, erected c. 1910, comprising fluted cylindrical shaft on moulded base, fluted domed capping over with ‘acorn’ finial, and having spout to the west side. Now disused. Foundry mark 'Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock' to shaft. Original pull lever now missing. Modern tap inserted. Located adjacent to footpath to the south-west end of Ballintra, and on the south-east side of the Main Street.

• Ballintra Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch road bridge, built c. 1780, carrying road over the Ballintra River. Possibly containing earlier fabric. Segmental-headed arches having dressed stone voussoirs and squared rubble stone construction to the arch barrels. Squared dressed stone V-profile cutwaters to piers to east/south-east elevation (upstream). Rubble stone construction to spandrels, piers and parapets. Roughly dressed stone coping to parapets. Full-height V-profile rubble stone cutwater to the north end of the west elevation. Parapets extend to either end forming wing walls along road. Tarmacadam deck with vegetation to verges. Located at the south-west end of Main Street, Ballintra, at the entry to the town.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

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

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.

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

Name

Ballintra · Baile an tSratha

Area

139,758 m² (13.98 ha, 34.53 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacarrick, Lismintan Or Ballyruddelly, Moneymore, Rosscanlan

Placenames

Ballintra on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.