Ballyboencurragh
Townland in the civil parish of Aghanunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 58.8 ha
- 145 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 3,390 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboencurragh, from 22 m² to 145,830 m² (14.58 ha, 36.04 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 Ballyboencurragh 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
11 Aug 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH INTEGRATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561378
14 Feb 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450049
9 Feb 2024N/a
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450045
20 Mar 2023Conditional
INSTALLATION OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR SECONDARY TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS GENERATED. THE EXISTING WASTEWATER SEPTIC TANK WILL BE RETAINED, AND A NEW PUMP AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLED. THE EXISTING ACTIVATED SLUDGE PACKAGE PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED. NEW PIPEWORK AT THE SEPTIC TANK WILL BE INSTALLED TO CONVEY WASTEWATERS FROM THE HOTEL, SPA AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS TO THE ICW FOR TREATMENT. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND WILL DISCHARGE VIA PIPEWORK TO THE UNNAMED STREAM (IE_NW_39K240610 SEGMENT_CODE: 39_1259) A TRIBUTARY OF THE BALLYMALEEL STREAM WITHIN THE SILVER TASSIE HOTEL AND SPA OWNERSHIP BOUNDARY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350349
27 Feb 2023N/a
INSTALLATION OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR SECONDARY TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS GENERATED. THE EXISTING WASTEWATER SEPTIC TANK WILL BE RETAINED, AND A NEW PUMP AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLED. THE EXISTING ACTIVATED SLUDGE PACKAGE PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED. NEW PIPEWORK AT THE SEPTIC TANK WILL BE INSTALLED TO CONVEY WASTEWATERS FROM THE HOTEL, SPA AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS TO THE ICW FOR TREATMENT. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND WILL DISCHARGE VIA PIPEWORK TO THE UNNAMED STREAM (IE_NW_39K240610 SEGMENT_CODE: 39_1259) A TRIBUTARY OF THE BALLYMALEEL STREAM WITHIN THE SILVER TASSIE HOTEL AND SPA OWNERSHIP BOUNDARY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350227
16 Mar 2022Conditional
EXISTING GOLF SALES UNIT ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING DRIVING RANGE INCLUDING SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250469
31 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951678
9 Mar 2018Conditional
(1) A SMOKING AREA WITH SLATE ROOF AND STONE CLAD PILLARS AND (2) A 1.0 METER WIDE GLASS CANOPY OVER THE 'SHOP FRONT' CLADDING AROUND THE BAR ENTRANCE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850348
28 Feb 2018N/a
ERECTION OF A SMOKING AREA AND A GLASS CANOPY TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING SILVER HOTEL TASSIE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) A SMOKING AREA WITH SLATE ROOF & STONE CLAD PILLARS AND (2) A 1.0 METER WIDE GLASS CANOPY OVER THE 'SHOP FRONT' CLADDING AROUND THE BAR ENTRANCE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850289
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 Ballyboencurragh.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyboencurragh.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyboencurragh.
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 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 Ballyboencurragh.
- 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 Ballyboencurragh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyboencurragh
- Area
- 588,179 m² (58.82 ha, 145.34 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aghanunshin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Castlewray, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghalenty, Ballymaleel, Drumnaskea, Loughagannon, Newtownfore
- Placenames
- Ballyboencurragh 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.