Ballybolauder
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 111.5 ha
- 276 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 6,042 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybolauder, from 138 m² to 161,497 m² (16.15 ha, 39.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballybolauder 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
21 Jul 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM COMPLEX INCLUDING DEMOLISHING AN OLD DERELICT BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561241
9 Jul 2025N/a
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM COMPLEX INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF AN OLD DERELICT BUILDING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561175
22 Jan 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF A ROOFED SILAGE PIT WITH SOAKAGE PIT/TANK, INCLUDING A FOOD STORE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460028
16 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED & INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250459
29 Jun 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN EXISTING FARM COMPLEX
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851022
22 Dec 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751991
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Leannan Valley Woods 001155
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybolauder.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybolauder.
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 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 Ballybolauder.
- 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 Ballybolauder with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybolauder
- Area
- 1,115,047 m² (111.5 ha, 275.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Templedouglas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templedouglas electoral division: 1,089 people in 352 households; 89% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Cabra Brook, Drumcavany, Pollans, Sockar, Stackarnagh
- Placenames
- Ballybolauder 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.