# Ballyalla, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 641,670 m² (64.17 ha, 158.56 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 103,616 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Drumhome, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/drumhome.md
- Barony: Tirhugh
- Electoral division: Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13889
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50151
- Centre: latitude 54.576163, longitude -8.065626 (WGS 84)

## 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); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1353124: 115,795 m² (11.58 ha, 28.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353124.md
- Parcel 1340207: 110,156 m² (11.02 ha, 27.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340207.md
- Parcel 1393476: 107,029 m² (10.7 ha, 26.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393476.md
- Parcel 1347183: 103,616 m² (10.36 ha, 25.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347183.md
- Parcel 1305214: 67,865 m² (6.79 ha, 16.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305214.md
- Parcel 1402440: 65,609 m² (6.56 ha, 16.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402440.md
- Parcel 1301309: 48,797 m² (4.88 ha, 12.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301309.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 23 Nov 2022, Donegal County Council 2251890: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL DRY-BED SHED FOR THE HOUSING OF ANIMALS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251890/0
- 16 Jul 2019, Donegal County Council 1951078: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951078/0
- 17 May 2018, Donegal County Council 1850783: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850783/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyalla.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyalla.

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyalla.

## 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 Ballyalla, about 1 in 20 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 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 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/ballyalla.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyalla.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyalla.kml

## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballydermot: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballydermot.md
- Bigpark: https://everytownland.com/donegal/bigpark.md
- Derries: https://everytownland.com/donegal/derries-50890.md
- Legnanornoge: https://everytownland.com/donegal/legnanornoge.md
- Pollnaranny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/pollnaranny.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.

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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/ballyalla
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballyalla