Ballyalla
Ballyalla is a townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 64.2 ha
- 159 acres
- Land parcels
- 7
- registered freehold, median 103,616 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyalla, from 48,797 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres) to 115,795 m² (11.58 ha, 28.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyalla 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
23 Nov 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL DRY-BED SHED FOR THE HOUSING OF ANIMALS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251890
16 Jul 2019Conditional
CONTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA WITH VEHICULAR ACCESS ONTO THE L-7285-1 PUBLIC ROAD AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951078
17 May 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850783
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyalla.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyalla.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyalla.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyalla, 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 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 Ballyalla.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyalla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyalla
- Area
- 641,670 m² (64.17 ha, 158.56 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydermot, Bigpark, Derries, Legnanornoge, Pollnaranny
- Placenames
- Ballyalla 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.