# Ballyboe Mountain, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Raymunterdoney, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Sliabh Bhaile na Bó. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,401,321 m² (440.13 ha, 1,087.59 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 4,399,945 m² (439.99 ha, 1,087.25 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Raymunterdoney, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/raymunterdoney.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Cross Roads, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/14361 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50173 - Centre: latitude 55.095267, longitude -8.020864 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 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); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1395627: 4,399,945 m² (439.99 ha, 1,087.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395627.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballyboe Mountain in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Muckish Mountain SAC, site code 001179, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001179 - Special Area of Conservation: Cloghernagore Bog and Glenveagh National Park SAC, site code 002047, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002047 - Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA, site code 004039, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004039 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Muckish Mountain, site code 001179 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboe Mountain. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Droichead na nDeor [The Bridge of Tears], bridge, 1800–1840, Regional interest, registry number 40903403, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40903403. 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"). ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyboe-mountain.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyboe-mountain.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyboe-mountain.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyness Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyness-mountain.md - Devlin or Barr of Ballyconnell: https://everytownland.com/donegal/devlin-or-barr-of-ballyconnell.md - Gortnaleck: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnaleck.md - Meencoolasheskin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meencoolasheskin.md - Moyra Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/moyra-glebe.md - Ray: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ray-52266.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyboe-mountain - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballyboe-mountain