Ballyarr

68 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyarr, from 141 m² to 331,772 m² (33.18 ha, 81.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballyarr 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.

• 5 Jun 2025Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY, LEAN-TO ROOFED DOMESTIC GARAGE / STORE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560933

• 26 Jul 2023Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE BUILDING TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351106

• 12 Apr 2021Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT (OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 12/50990 REFERS)

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2150640

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  RE-LOCATION AND RE-POSITIONING ON SITE OF, DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO: 16/50400 AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF RE-LOCATED AND RE-POSITIONED DWELLING HOUSE AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANE ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050730

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050617

• 15 Apr 2019Conditional

  EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950528

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballyarr Wood SAC 000116
• Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyarr Wood 000116
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

• DG045-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 24m. A circular area formerly enclosed by a stone wall 2m wide comprised of two lines of large stones filled in with smaller stones. The NW half of the wall survives in a collapsed state up to .5m in height. The other half has been removed, but can be traced still. The site is overgrown but is apparently even, sloping gently N to S. It is situated on a spur of rough, wooded land sloping steeply N, E and W and gently to the S. 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

• DG045-022 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  A 'barrow' levelled here in 1854 is said to have contained an 'urn and kistvaen' (Kinahan 1889, 286). The site today consists of a flat-topped rise, approximately circular, c. 22m across. It is c. 1m high. A slab 1.51m × 1.05m on top is thought to be part of the 'kistvaen'. 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

• Ballyarr House, house, 1770–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house with basement, built c.1780, having triple-gabled front (south) elevation, two-bay west elevation, single-bay deep two-storey gabled return of c.1870 to west end of rear (presenting two bays to rear), three-bay two-storey return of c.1910 to east end of rear, eight-bay single-storey addition to east end of latter, and with lean-to conservatory full length of last two additions. Box-bay window to east elevation. Pitched and hipped slate roofs on overhanging eaves course with replacement rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks with flat roof, projecting cornice to bay window, and glazed roof to conservatory. Rubble stone walls to front elevation, smooth-rendered elsewhere, with buttress detail to gable ends (possibly relating to earlier blocks). Square-headed window openings with stone sills, having red brick voussoirs and surrounds to front elevation, and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to front and west elevations and to addition of c.1870; addition of c.1910 has six-over-three pane windows to first floor and four-over-two pane to ground floor; latest addition has four-over-two pane windows and bay window has triple four-over-four pane windows. Square-headed half-glazed timber panelled door to front elevation with overlight. Rubble stone wall to raised platform to front, with stone steps flanked by red brick walls having vase finials. Lawn and garden to front, mature trees to west, laneway to north, and single-storey outbuilding forming courtyard to rear, with pitched slate roof, replacement rainwater goods and rendered walls. Rubble stone boundary wall to north, with mill building and fish farm to northeast.

• Ballyarr House, mill (water), 1790–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-phase former corn mill, built c.1800-50, with north-south axis, built on sloping ground, and comprising five-bay three-storey over basement middle block with three-bay four-storey block at north end and having two or three-bay three-storey over basement block to south end incorporating mill race. Latter block projects forward to east and west, and to north of this is lean-to five or six-bay three-storey over basement addition that stops short of end of north end of main building, gap being filled by concrete-block addition. Large altered stone-walled building to north gable of whole. Pitched slate roofs, with exposed rafter ends and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random rubble stone walls with dressed quoins. External concrete steps to north end of west elevation, giving access to first floor. Round-headed openings to top floor of north gable and square-headed elsewhere, with red brick reveals and voussoirs, remains of cast-iron frames, concrete sills, and with timber battened doors. Pitching doors towards north end of west elevation. Segmental-arch opening over mill race, with red brick voussoirs. Interior has cast-iron and steel water-wheel, machinery, and cast-iron floor beams. Ballyarr House to southwest.

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 Ballyarr, about 1 in 10 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 Ballyarr.

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

Name

Ballyarr · Baile Áir

Area

1,852,270 m² (185.23 ha, 457.71 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ballyarr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

735 people lived in 241 households in the Ballyarr electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Big, Ards Little, Ballyarr Glebe, Barrack, Claragh, Gortnavern, Mullagheep, Tully Hall

Placenames

Ballyarr 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.