Ballyboe Mountain

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyboe Mountain, from 4,399,945 m² (439.99 ha, 1,087.25 acres) to 4,399,945 m² (439.99 ha, 1,087.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Mountain 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyboe Mountain in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Muckish Mountain SAC 001179
• Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC 002047
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain 001179
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park 002047

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboe Mountain.

Architectural heritage

• Droichead na nDeor [The Bridge of Tears], bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arch bridge, built c.1820, crossing Sruthán Mhín Easa Roda [Sruhanmeennasarudda]. Rubble sandstone walls with rendered copings to parapets. Round arches with rough voussoirs, gunnelled soffits and triangular stone cut-waters to both sides. Evidence of lime render to stonework. Set in remote rural area and serving busy mountain road. Stone to west of bridge with text: "Fad leis seo a thagadh/Cairde agus lucht Gaeil/An té a bhí ag imeacht/Chun na Coigríche/B'anseo an scaradh/Seo Droichead na nDeor" ("As far as here came the friends and relations of the one who was going to foreign lands. Here was the separation. This is the Bridge of Tears").

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Mountain.

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

Name

Ballyboe Mountain · Sliabh Bhaile na Bó

Area

4,401,321 m² (440.13 ha, 1,087.59 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

Ballyness Mountain, Devlin or Barr of Ballyconnell, Gortnaleck, Meencoolasheskin, Moyra Glebe, Ray

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyboe Mountain 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.