Ballyarr Glebe
Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Gléib Bhaile Áir
- Area
- 88.9 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 44
- registered freehold, median 3,278 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyarr Glebe, from 201 m² to 215,516 m² (21.55 ha, 53.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyarr Glebe 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
15 May 2026N/a
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50562 WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660880
8 May 2026N/a
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50562 WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660824
30 Apr 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660772
26 Aug 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561465
9 Jun 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING TWO STOREY DWELLING DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKS AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEWLY DESIGNED REPLACEMENT STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING MAKING USE OF EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND INCLUDING ANY NECESSARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560953
18 Jul 2024Conditional
SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE BLOCK TWO STOREY DWELLING GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/8078, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT TWO STOREY DWELLING, (C) REPLACEMENT DWELLING STORM AND FOUL DRAINAGE TO BE CONNECTED TO EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED STORM AND FOUL SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 04/8078 AND (D) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461104
8 Nov 2023Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WHICH WILL ALSO PROVIDE FOR SELF - CONTAINED FAMILY ACCOMMODATION, (3) CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF NO: 22/51332
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351700
28 Oct 2022Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251779
5 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION WHICH INCLUDES ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING TO PROVIDE FOR SELF CONTAINED FAMILY ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251332
31 Mar 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150562
30 Jun 2020N/a
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050856
20 Dec 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851933
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Ballyarr Wood SAC 000116
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA 004060
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyarr Wood 000116
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyarr Glebe.
Architectural heritage
- Milestone Cottage, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1860, having lower lean-to porch addition to rear, and lower single-bay single-storey outbuilding attached to northwest gable. Pitched scolloped reed-thatched roof of c.2005, having raised ridge with decorative scolloping, rendered chimneystacks with lead flashing, and asbestos-cement slate roof to porch. Smooth-rendered walls. Square-headed openings with concrete sills and replacement timber casement windows and half-door. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with exposed rafter ends to outbuilding. Small garden to front, with low picket fence to road, and garden to rear.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1769 (ZIP).
- 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. 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 Ballyarr Glebe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyarr Glebe · Gléib Bhaile Áir
- Area
- 889,140 m² (88.91 ha, 219.71 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Ballyarr, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyarr electoral division: 735 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyarr, Drumman, Grovehall or Newtowngrove, Mullagheep, Tully Hall, Tully More
- Placenames
- Ballyarr Glebe 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.