Ballyboe
Townland in the civil parish of Convoy, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 27 ha
- 67 acres
- Land parcels
- 61
- registered freehold, median 1,524 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboe, from 25 m² to 44,707 m² (4.47 ha, 11.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballyboe 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
29 Sept 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151952
16 Aug 2021N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC BUNGALOW, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151637
26 Apr 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE, ONE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950604
9 Apr 2019N/a
ERECTION OF A SINGLE, ONE STOREY DOMESTIC GARAGE & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950483
24 Sept 2018Conditional
REPLACEMENT OF AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED WITH A NEW 2-CAR GARAGE AND FUEL STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851469
5 Jan 2018Refused
DEVELOPMENT OF A SINGLE DOMESTIC DWELLING AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850005
27 Jul 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPOSED DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 17/50590
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751194
21 Apr 2017Conditional
(A) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PROVISION OF A NEW RAISED ROOF TO BE CONSTRUCTED OVER THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED DWELLING HOUSE PROVIDING A FIRST FLOOR HABITABLE SPACE, ROOF LIGHTS AND ALL INTERNAL AMENDMENT WORKS AND EXTERNAL AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS (B) PROVISION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750590
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 Ballyboe.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboe.
Architectural heritage
- Convoy Reformed Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1800–1810 · Regional interest
Description
Freestanding single-storey six-bay Reformed Presbyterian church/Covenanters meeting house, built in 1810, having modern single-bay single-storey vestry and boiler house extension to the south-east gable end. Pitched natural slate roof having projecting ashlar eaves course, and with cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls, slightly projecting from body of church below window sill level, with smooth rendered plinth to base. Pointed-arched window openings with timber Y-tracery, stone sills, cast-iron diamond-pane quarry glass windows with coloured glass to outer panes. Pointed-arched doorway to the north-west gable end having plinth blocks to base, replacement timber double-doors, and with overlight having timber Y-tracery and cast-iron diamond-pane quarry glass windows with coloured glass to outer panes. Timber pews and panelling to interior. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of the centre of Convoy, adjacent to bridge over the Deele River. Graveyard with collection of gravemarkers, some in wrought-iron railed enclosures to site. Modern cement rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the east having stepped coping over; rubble stone boundary walls to a number of the other boundaries. Gateway to the south-east end of boundary wall having a pair of smooth rendered ruled-and-lined gate piers (on square-plan) having capstones and a pair of hooped wrought-iron gates.
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 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_1813 (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 Ballyboe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboe
- Area
- 269,725 m² (26.97 ha, 66.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Convoy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe South
- Electoral division
- Convoy, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Convoy electoral division: 2,559 people in 926 households; 72% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrickbrack, Findrum, Kiltole, Milltown
- Placenames
- Ballyboe 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.