Ballyara

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyara, from 91 m² to 1,507,966 m² (150.8 ha, 372.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ballyara 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 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660893

• 27 Sept 2023Conditional

  SITEWORKS CARRIED OUT AROUND DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING REPLACING THE DILAPIDATED ROOF STRUCTURE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351444

• 20 Jun 2023N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350870

• 4 Mar 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150388

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC CAR SHED, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SECONDARY TREATMENT SYSTEM PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS TO SAFELY COMPLETE THE PROJECT

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051343

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 Ballyara.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyara.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyara, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyara with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballyara · Baile Uí Eára

Area

3,609,178 m² (360.92 ha, 891.85 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Killybegs, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,333 people lived in 880 households in the Killybegs electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cullion, Fintragh, Largynagreana, Meenawley

Placenames

Ballyara 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.