Ballyboe

210 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboe, from 19 m² to 791,472 m² (79.15 ha, 195.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 51 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

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.

• 2 Sept 2026N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/61753 INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661631

• 8 Oct 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, ALTERATIONS TO THE FACADE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561753

• 10 Jan 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560009

• 2 Dec 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461972

• 12 Nov 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GARDEN ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450243

• 4 Nov 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DWELLING, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GARDEN ROOM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450233

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461419

• 1 May 2024Conditional

  A SUNROOM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460627

• 29 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460607

• 1 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350242

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  (1) EXTRACTION OF ROCK AND GRAVEL THROUGH MECHANICAL EXCAVATION FOR A PERIOD OF 20 YEARS (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) ON-SITE SETTLEMENT PONDS (B) ON-SITE WHEEL WASH (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251050

• 8 Jun 2022N/a

  BUILDING USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNERAL SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING BUSINESS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING SIGNAGE AND ALL OTHER RELATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250991

• 18 May 2022N/a

  BUILDING USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNERAL SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING BUSINESS INCLUDING CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED ADVERTISING SIGNAGE AND ALL OTHER RELATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250875

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND ELEVATIONAL MODIFICATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE THE SAME (2) CARRYING OUT OF IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250406

• 9 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051890

• 20 Jun 2019N/a

  RENOVATION/REFURBISHMENT AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH POLISHING FILTER AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950930

• 20 Dec 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A GRANNY FLAT AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA TO A TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851930

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851042

• 8 Nov 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751702

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 Ballyboe.

Recorded monuments

• DG025-018 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' shown on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. 15-20m). It was situated on high ground in rough pasture and was probably stone-built. 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

• DG025-019 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  There is no trace of the single-ringed 'Fort' shown here on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m). It was situated on high ground with rough pasture and was likely to have been stone-built. 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 revised upload: 15 April 2016

• DG025-046 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  The monument is on level ground c. 600m SW of the portal tomb (DG025-017-) in the adjacent townland of Errarooey Beg. It stands 400m E of the Ray River and 1.4km from the sea on the strip of coastal farmland stretching from Ballyness Bay to Hom Head. Muckish Mountain dominates the skyline to the S. The main part of the monument consists of a gallery preceded at the W by a full court of roughly circular outline. This structure stands in the substantial remains of a cairn. Approximately 6m E of this cairn and on the same axis as the gallery three tall orthostats, the remains of a chamber, stand at the NW edge of a grass-grown mound. A further 2.5m to the E, again on the same axis, is a smaller mound on which are a tall orthostat and a prostrate slab. The large cairn to the W, considerably overgrown, is of irregular outline. A section of it to the N of the front half of the gallery has been robbed, and elsewhere, most noticeably along the court perimeter, it has been used as a dump for field stones. It now measures 28m in overall length (E-W) and 13m in maximum width. It reaches a height of 1.5m in the gallery area. Five stones exposed at its NE comer and another midway along its southern side are of uncertain status. Two set stones next to each other at the cairn edge to the N of the court may be kerbstones. The western one is 0.3m high, and the eastern is 0.6m high. The smaller mound to the E of the cairn is subrectangular in outline and measures c. 7.5m by 6m by 1m high. The mound at the E end of the complex measures 2.5m N-S by 4m E-W and is 0.5m high. The court is 6m long and 5.5m wide. A rough field wall (not on plan) partly obscures its SW sector. It is bounded by at least fifteen orthostats, two of which also serve as jambs at the entrance to the gallery. These stand c. 1m apart. The northern one is now split into four separate uprights but when intact was c. 1m long and 0.5m thick. It is l.1m high. The southern jamb is 0.9m high. Beyond this are three courtstones close together. The first of these rises 0.35m above the jamb; the second is 0.3m lower than the first and the same height as the third, which is set with its long axis at right angles to the perimeter of the court. Approximately 0.75m beyond this, two courtstones of similar height measure 0.45m and 0.35m in exposed height. The next courtstone is 0.3m taller than the last two. Beyond this the tops of two courtstones, c. 0.8m apart, protrude just above the surface of a dump of field rubble. An orthostat standing at an angle to the northern one measures 0.6m in exposed height. Approximately 1.6m beyond this is an arc of three contiguous stones on the N side of the court. The tops of these are level, and each is c. 0.6m in exposed height. There is a displaced stone outside the easternmost of the three. Beyond the easternmost courtstone is a gap 0.9m wide between it and the next. The latter flanks the northern entrance jamb and is 1.6m high. A fragment broken from its inner face stands just inside it. The court lacks a readily identifiable entrance. However, the stone set at an angle to the perimeter and more or less opposite the front of the gallery may mark its position, and the transversely set stone flanking a gap midway along the S side of the court suggests the possibility of lateral entry. The front chamber of the gallery is c. 2.5m long and just over 2m wide. Two orthostats form the S side, but only one survives at the N. The last is 1.6m high. The outer orthostat at the S rises 0.5m above the entrance jamb. The inner one is 0.1m lower than the outer. A displaced slab within the chamber measures 1.2m by 0.5m by 0.4m. The segmenting jambs separating the front chamber from the rest of the gallery are transversely set and stand 0.85m apart. They are substantially obscured. They are around the same height as the sidestone on the N side of the front chamber. The inner sidestone on the S side of the front chamber extends beyond the southern segmenting jamb and forms part of the side of the second chamber. Apart from this sidestone, only one other possible remnant of the second chamber is visible. This is a large slab, perhaps a corbel, protruding from the top of the cairn, more or less in line with the S side of the gallery. It measures 2m by 1m and is at least 0.4m thick. Approximately 0.7m NE of this is a displaced stone on the cairn. It measures 1.6m by 0.5m. Two of the three orthostats forming the middle element of this monument stand opposite each other and lean inward slightly. The space between them narrows from 1.25m at the E to 0.8m at the W. The southern one, set with its flat face inward, is 1.4m high, and the northern one is 1.15m high. The third orthostat stands E of and beside this and rises 1.3m above it. The space between the opposed orthostats, which appear to represent the sides of a chamber, has been dug to a depth of c. 0.7m. A flint flake was found here in 1989. Four flint flakes had already been picked up in a ploughed field beside the monument in 1981 (Ó Nualláin 1983a). The lone orthostat set in the small eastern mound is 1.8m high. The prostrate slab at the western end of this mound is partly concealed. It measures 1.6m by at least 0.7m and is 0.35m thick. The original form of this complex monument is not altogether clear. It seems that the full court at the W led to a gallery of at least two chambers. The middle structure resembles the ruins of a portal tomb chamber, and the large surviving orthostat in the eastern mound may represent a chamber of similar type. The three elements here are linked in their adherence to an E-W axis, but other aspects of their relationship remain unclear. Fagan 1845-8, book 3, 8-9; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 25 (1847-9), 43 (sketch profile of the two eastern elements); de Valera 1960, 105, DG. 6 (plan); Killanin and Duignan 1962, 298; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; Ó Nualláin 1968a, 294; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 16, no. 3 (plan); SMR 1987, 25:46, 25:47; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; RMP 1995, 25:46. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

• DG025-047 Penal Mass station
  Description

  This feature, listed by Borlase (1897) as a 'dolmen', was later described as a 'chamber tomb' (Killanin and Duignan 1962; 1967). This is an altar at which, it is locally believed, Mass was celebrated during the era of the Penal laws. Borlase 1897, 230, Kilmacrenan no. 1; Killanin and Duignan 1962, 298; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 300; SMR 1987, 25:47; RMP 1995, 25:47. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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.

No address of the register names Ballyboe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballyboe · Baile na Bó

Area

2,122,159 m² (212.22 ha, 524.4 acres)

Civil parish

Raymunterdoney, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Cross Roads, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cross Roads electoral division: 2,071 people in 867 households; 74% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowcanon, Derryreel, Errarooey Beg, Fawnmore, Ray

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

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.