Ballybofey

797 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybofey, from 2 m² to 70,567 m² (7.06 ha, 17.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 48 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 Ballybofey 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.

• 18 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD TO SERVE AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT AND ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661534

• 17 Aug 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF MODULAR ACCOMMODATION CONTAINING 2 NO. OFFICE SPACES, TOILETS, ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661520

• 20 Jul 2026N/a

  DEVELOPMENT OF MODULAR ACCOMMODATION CONTAINING 2 NO. OFFICE SPACES, TOILETS, ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661337

• 2 Jul 2026Refused

  PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EXISTING BUILDING TO PROVIDE A NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING 4 NO. 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661228

• 1 Jul 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF ALTERATIONS TO PERMITTED RETAIL / WAREHOUSE UNIT (PLANNING REF. NO. 06/60443 REFERS) AND (2) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING RETAIL / WAREHOUSE UNIT (WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF RETENTION HEREIN) TO USE AS A GYM INCORPORATING COFFEE AREA (CAFÉ) AND (3) ALL PROPOSED EXTERNAL ALTERATIONS / AMENDMENTS INCLUDING SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661210

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF 20 NO. APARTMENTS IN TWO SEPARATE BUILDINGS OF TWO AND THREE STORIES, WITH DEDICATED CARPARKING AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS INCLUDING FOOTPATHS, LANDSCAPING AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661192

• 23 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF GROUND FLOOR STORE AREA TO NORTH WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING SHOP, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) NEW EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING SHOP TO INCLUDE NEW FIRST FLOOR STORAGE AREA AND (B) NEW EXTENSION TO FRONT NORTH WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING SHOP TO EXTEND INTERNAL SHOP AREA, (3) INTERNAL CHANGES TO EXISTING SHOP TO INCLUDE NEW STAIRWELL, OFFICE, STAFF ROOM AND WCS, AND RELOCATION OF EXISTING COLD ROOM AND FREEZER, (4) ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW GROUND FLOOR EXIT TO REAR SOUTH EASTERN SIDE OF EXISTING SHOP AND (5) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS INCLUDING CONNECTION INTO EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661157

• 19 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING HOME OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60519 AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660894

• 18 Feb 2026Conditional

  DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTACHED FUEL STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660235

• 17 Feb 2026Conditional

  (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (2) PERIMETER BOUNDARY WALL / FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660225

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE / OCCUPANCY OF EXISTING SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT FROM PERMANENT USE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60070 TO USE FOR SHORT-TERM LETTING PURPOSES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562250

• 16 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM TYRE DEPOT TO A HARDWARE SALES PREMISES, (2) MINOR INTERNAL MODIFICATIONS INCLUDING PROVISION FOR AN INTERNAL MEZZANINE FLOOR, (3) PROVISION FOR A SHELTERED CANOPY TO THE EASTERN EXTERNAL ELEVATION AND (4) ALL EXTERNAL SIGNAGE TO THE BUILDING FAÇADE, REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING TOTEM POLE SIGNAGE TO THE FRONT OF THE PREMISES AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562235

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE AND STORE ANCILLARY TO EXISTING RETAIL AND COMMERCIAL PREMISES LOCATED ON SITE, (2) DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACCESSIBLE STORAGE YARD WHICH INCLUDES VEHICLE TURNING AND PARKING PROVISION AND (3) ALL SITE DRAINAGE WORKS, DEVELOPMENT OF SECURE BOUNDARY TREATMENTS AND ALL ANCILLARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561416

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING DWELLING/OFFICE SPACE (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 12/50586) BUILDING NO. 1 TO COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREA INCLUDING A TAKEAWAY COFFEE DOCK, SALES AREA, INTERNAL FREEZING UNIT AND PREPARATION AREA, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREA WITH GRANTED PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/61453) BUILDING NO. 2 TO OFFICE SPACE AND CANTEEN FACILITIES, (3) ADDITION OF 8 NEW CAR PARKING SPACES TO FRONT OF BUILDING NO. 1, WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING FENCE TO ALLOW FOR SPACE, (4) ADDITION OF 3 NEW CYCLE-PARKING SPACES TO SIDE OF BUILDING NO. 2 AND (5) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STORE FRONT ON BUILDING NO. 1 WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY AN EXISTING DWELLING/OFFICE SPACE (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 12/50586) INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560926

• 22 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE/OCCUPANCY OF 2 NO. SELF CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS FOR SHORT-TERM LETTING PURPOSES APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60024 TO PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL USE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560626

• 7 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM OFFICE SPACE BUILDING NO. 1 TO COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREA INCLUDING A TAKEAWAY COFFEE DOCK, (2) CHANGE OF USE FROM COMMERCIAL RETAIL AREA BUILDING NO. 2 TO OFFICE SPACE AND (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW STORE FRONT ON BUILDING NO. 1 INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560513

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  HOME OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560519

• 7 Apr 2025N/a

  (1) CHANGE OF USE / OCCUPANCY OF 2 NO. SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS FOR SHORT-TERM LETTING PURPOSES APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/60024 TO PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL USE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560517

• 11 Mar 2025Conditional

  PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS WITH FRONTAGE ONTO MAIN STREET AND BACK ROAD BALLYBOFEY TO PROVIDE FOR A NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING 6 NO. APARTMENTS WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560343

• 21 Feb 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING STORAGE PREMISES TO A DRY CLEANERS / LAUNDERETTE (CLASS 1 SHOP USE), SIGNAGE, CAR PARKING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560228

• 5 Feb 2025Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM PART OF EXISTING DETACHED STORE TO SERVICE AREA AND POOL ROOM AND (2) COVERED BEER GARDEN AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO THE REAR OF MCKELVEY'S BAR

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560141

• 28 Jan 2025Conditional

  (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND LEAN TO FUEL / BIN STORE, (2) STORAGE SHED ATTACHED TO THE SIDE GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) RAISED WALL AND FENCE TO REAR AND SIDE BOUNDARY AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560089

• 14 Jan 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE COMPRISING OF (1) 2 NO. EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOMS TO THE SIDE (WESTERN) GABLE AND (2) 2 NO. SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL UNITS FOR SHORT TERM LETTING PURPOSES TO THE REAR (SOUTHERN) ELEVATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560024

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO RETAIL UNIT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461453

• 28 Aug 2024Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF REAR EXTENSION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING PITCHED ROOF, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GABLE ENDED PITCHED ROOF DESIGN INCORPORATING FLAT ROOF PROJECTIONS, (C) REVISED EXTERNAL FINISHES / CLADDING AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461301

The 25 most recent of over 100 applications.

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: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG078-013 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  A single-ringed 'Fort' is marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps. The site would appear to have been destroyed by the railway line. It was situated on low, rough pasture rising from the S bank of the River Finn. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay single-storey house, built c. 1860, having gable-fronted half-dormer attic. One of a pair with the building adjacent to the west (altered; not in survey). Pitched natural purple slate with clay ridge tiles, and with rendered chimneystack to the west end shared with adjacent property. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with painted sills, smooth rendered reveals, and having six-over-six pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to the north-east end of the main elevation (north-west) having plinth blocks to base, cut stone step, smooth rendered reveals, replacement timber sheeted door, and with plain overlight. Road-fronted to the south-west of the centre of Ballybofey. Yard to rear (south-east) having collection of sheds and outbuildings.

• Allied Irish Bank, bank/financial institution, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay three-storey bank building with bank manager’s accommodation over, built c. 1897, having projecting box-bays to upper floors, half-dormer attic level, bank front at ground floor level, and with three-storey return and gabled stair return to the rear (south). Modern single-storey extension to the rear (built 1994). Possibly originally built as a branch of the Hibernian Bank, now in use by the Allied Irish Bank. Pitched natural slate roof (purple slate) with moulded eaves cornice, stepped rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) having moulded cornices to heads, and cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers, decorative tie plates with floral motifs and profiled gutters; flat roofs to half-dormer openings having moulded render cornices to heads with raised render decoration under. Painted smooth rendered walls with moulded render stringcourses to projecting box-bays between first and second floor level. Square-headed window openings at first floor level having tripartite timber casement windows and stone sills; paired square-headed window openings to half-dormers at second floor level having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and with moulded render sill course under incorporating profiled rainwater gutters. Bankfront at ground floor level comprising two central segmental/basket-headed fixed-pane three-over-two pane windows, moulded render reveals, and with incised decoration to apron panels, and central engaged Doric\classical pilaster; projecting pedimented segmental\basket-headed doorways to either end with squared-headed timber panelled doors with bolection mouldings, moulded reveals, multi-paned overlights (coloured leaded glass to overlight to the east end with central floral motif, three-over-three toplight over to overlight to the west end), and with pedimented surround comprising engaged Doric\classical pilasters with moulded plinths supporting moulded render pediments over; moulded entablature over having bank name to frieze and with moulded cornice over incorporating moulded rainwater goods; decorative scrolled to ends of frieze to doorways. Road-fronted to the west end of the centre of Main Street, Ballybofey. Laneway to the south-east, off Navenny Street, with gateway giving access to yard to rear (south) of site comprising a pair of pebbledashed brick gate piers (on square-plan) with cut stone copping and cut stone ball finials over.

• Goodness Me, house, shop/retail outlet, 1850–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860, having shopfront to ground floor added\altered c. 1900 and c. 1960. Pitched natural slate roof having clayware ridge tiles, moulded render eaves course\cornice, cast-iron rainwater goods including profiled gutter, and with rendered chimneystack to the east gable end. Smooth rendered walls with raised render channelled banded quoins at ground floor level. Square-headed window openings at first floor level having four-over-two pane timber-sash windows; fixed-pane display windows to shopfront. Recessed square-headed doorway to shopfront, offset to the west side of centre, having timber panelled door with glazed upper panel with margin glazing bars. Tiled mosaic detailing to stallrisers, entrance and to threshold, with modern metal gates flush with front elevation. Render shopfront having engaged fluted pilasters to either end with moulded render plinths, Ionic-style capitals with egg-and-dart motifs, raised circular motifs to frieze, brackets over pilasters having segmental pedimented finials over, and with moulded render cornice over having brackets to base. Modern timber fascia with shop name. Road-fronted to the centre of Ballybofey.

• G. Barrett & Son, house, 1820–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached corner-sited end-of-terrace three-bay two-storey house with dormer attic level, built c. 1840, having pubfront to ground floor level, added c. 1900. Two-storey return to the rear (south) on L-shaped plan; modern extension to the south end of return having modern shopfront. Pitched natural slate roof (purple slate) having rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends, projecting eaves course, and some surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, smooth rendered finish to later shopfront, and with raised smooth rendered block-and-start quoins to the east corner (at first floor level to front elevation). Square-headed window openings to upper floor having smooth rendered reveals, stone sills, and replacement windows; square-headed window to pubfront having fixed-pane display window with modern leaded coloured glass window behind. Two square-headed doorways to the main elevation (north), one to the east end and one to the centre of the pubfront, having timber panelled door and plain overlight. Render\stucco pubfront to the north elevation comprising fluted pilasters on moulded plinths supporting entablature over with pronounced cornice; painted lettering to timber fascia. Road-fronted to the east end of Main Street, Ballybofey. Walled yard to the rear (south).

• Victor’s Restaurant\Surf and Turf\ZigZags, market house, market building, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey former market house, built 1862, having central shallow full-height single-bay breakfront, projecting full-height pilasters (on square-plan) to the corners of the main elevation (north), and with screen walls to either side (east and west) of the main elevation having integral round-headed carriage-arches with ashlar sandstone surrounds. Central section now in use as a restaurant with carriage-arch to the west now infilled to provide kitchen area. Formerly in use as offices. Former blocks to the south now demolished with modern structures arranged around central courtyard to the south. Hipped natural with central shallow pediment to central breakfront, cut stone eaves cornice, cut stone blocks to either end (east and west), and with surviving sections of cast-iron rainwater goods; raised stepped cut stone coping to screen walls having yellow brick eaves course with moulded cut stone cornice over. Roughly squared and coursed rubble stone walls over projecting battered cut stone plinth having pulvinated cut stone stringcourse over, yellow brick eaves course with yellow brick eaves course, flush yellow brick block-and-start quoin detailing to corners of pilasters and breakfront, and yellow brick course above ground floor openings having flush ashlar sandstone course over with moulded sandstone cornice; smooth rendered ruled-and-lined finish to west elevation of main block at first floor level. Roughly squared and coursed rubble stone construction to screen walls having projecting full-height squared rubble stone pilasters to outer corners with flush yellow brick block-and-start quoin detailing to the corners. Ashlar sandstone surrounds to carriage-arches having projecting cut stone stringcourses at arch springing point; wrought-iron double-gates to carriage-arch to the east, carriage-arch to the west now infilled with modern fixed-pane window fittings and square-headed doorway. Round-headed window openings to outer bays of main block at ground floor level with shallow segmental-headed window openings over at first floor level having stone sills, flush yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, and with replacement fixed-pane two-over-two pane window fittings; paired round-headed window openings to central bay at first floor level having stone sills, flush yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, and with replacement fixed-pane one-over-one pane window fittings. Segmental-headed doorway to centre bay of main block having ashlar sandstone surround with keystone detail, plinth blocks, ashlar sandstone step, and with replacement door, sidelight and overlight. Road-fronted to the centre of Main Street, Ballybofey. Carriage-arch to the east gives access to former market yard.

• House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached two-bay two storey house with attic level, built c. 1910, having full-height canted-bay window to the west end of the main elevation (south), and with two-storey return to the rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof having moulded render eaves course, clayware ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with yellow brick chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west). Flat roof to canted-bay window, hidden behind raised rendered parapet with cornice, having wrought-iron\mild steel railings over. Pebbledashed walls over smooth rendered plinth course with smooth rendered strips to corners, and with flush smooth rendered stringcourses. Smooth rendered finish to canted-bay having raised shouldered pebbledashed panels to stallrisers with moulded render surrounds, smooth rendered plinth to base, and with moulded smooth rendered stringcourses\cornices. Square-headed window opening to east end of main body of building (over doorway) having painted sill, replacement timber window fittings, and with moulded rendered surround comprising fluted pilasters with Doric-type capitals, and with entablature over with cornice. Square-headed window openings to canted-bay having continuous sills, replacement timber windows, and with smooth rendered surrounds with plain pilasters and cornice detail over. Square-headed doorway to the east end of the main elevation (south) having replacement timber door, leaded overlight, and with render surround comprising fluted pilasters (on square-plan) over plinth blocks to base, Doric-type capitals, and with pediment over having frieze to base with terminating scroll motifs. Set slightly back from road to the east end of the centre of Ballybofey. Small enclosed yard to the front (south) having smooth rendered boundary walls having decorative wrought-iron railings over; wrought-iron pedestrian gate serving doorway.

• Balor Theatre, cinema, 1940–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay one-and-two-storey former cinema, built 1945-6, comprising single- and two-storey entrance block on complex irregular-plan having advanced bay to the west end of the entrance front (south) with curved corners, recessed bay to the east end of the entrance front having curved corner, central entrance bay (on square-plan) having canopy porch with curved corners, and with multiple-bay double-height auditorium block to the north having clasping buttresses to side elevations (east and west). Single-storey block to the east side of auditorium having mono-pitched roof over. Now in use as a theatre and arts centre. Flat roofs to the entrance block (south) hidden behind raised smooth rendered parapets with concrete coping over, shallow pitched roof to auditorium with rendered chimneystack to the rear (north). Painted smooth rendered walls; applied raised lettering reading ‘RITZ to the centre bay of the entrance front, over doorway, with modern electronic display panel to base. Double-height square-headed window opening to projecting west bay to entrance front having fixed glass block lights. Square-headed window openings to other elevations having modern window fittings. Square-headed door opening to centre bay of entrance front having a pair of glazed timber double-doors; doorway accessed up flight of steps with curved corners, and with mosaic tiled decoration to lips of threads. Square-headed doorways\emergency exits to side and rear elevations (north) having modern fittings. Set slightly back from street-frontage to the east end of Ballybofey with paved forecourt to south. Laneways to the east and west side elevations giving access to the rear.

• Ballybofey Bridge, bridge, 1770–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Five-arch bridge carrying road over the River Finn, built c. 1780 and extended to the west\south-west end c. 1860, having V-profile ashlar cutwaters to piers to the west end (original bridge of three arches) rising to rubble stone piers (on square-plan) over. Segmental-headed arches to the original bridge having ashlar or render block-and-start voussoirs, squared rubble stone construction to piers, cement rendered lining to arch barrels. Segmental-headed arches to later section to the west\south-west having render block-and-start voussoirs, cement rendered lining to arch barrels, and rubble stone construction to piers. Roughly squared and coursed rubble stone construction to spandrels, abutments and parapets with modern render coping over parapets. Steel I-beam supports to west end of bridge; rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with footpaths to either side. Laneway to the south-east corner of bridge, giving access to river, having rubble stone wall to the south. Located in the streetscape to the east of Ballybofey and to the west end of Stranorlar.

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 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; parts are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballybofey · Bealach Féich

Area

1,842,439 m² (184.24 ha, 455.28 acres)

Civil parish

Stranorlar, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Stranorlar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Stranorlar electoral division: 4,706 people in 1,787 households; 61% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappry, Cappry (Graham), Carrickmagrath, Drumboe Lower, Goland, Navenny, Sessiagh (O'Neill), Stranorlar

Placenames

Ballybofey 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.