# Ballybuninabber, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Bun an Abair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,947,717 m² (494.77 ha, 1,222.61 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,618 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Termon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 568 people lived in 189 households in the Termon electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% 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/16086 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50186 - Centre: latitude 55.049186, longitude -7.88156 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybuninabber, from 235 m² to 2,210,252 m² (221.03 ha, 546.17 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1331878: 2,210,252 m² (221.03 ha, 546.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331878.md - Parcel 1328885: 1,637,781 m² (163.78 ha, 404.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328885.md - Parcel 1324757: 592,277 m² (59.23 ha, 146.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324757.md - Parcel 1523105: 433,017 m² (43.3 ha, 107 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1523105.md - Parcel 1324200: 204,860 m² (20.49 ha, 50.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324200.md - Parcel 1327953: 164,041 m² (16.4 ha, 40.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327953.md - Parcel 1410772: 129,533 m² (12.95 ha, 32.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1410772.md - Parcel 1322988: 126,715 m² (12.67 ha, 31.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322988.md - Parcel 1389031: 115,572 m² (11.56 ha, 28.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1389031.md - Parcel 1421923: 107,028 m² (10.7 ha, 26.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1421923.md - Parcel 1381092: 93,509 m² (9.35 ha, 23.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1381092.md - Parcel 1402746: 76,657 m² (7.67 ha, 18.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402746.md - Parcel 1382713: 65,895 m² (6.59 ha, 16.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382713.md - Parcel 1346656: 61,395 m² (6.14 ha, 15.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346656.md - Parcel 1392603: 53,743 m² (5.37 ha, 13.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392603.md - Parcel 1415022: 48,579 m² (4.86 ha, 12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415022.md - Parcel 1412958: 48,090 m² (4.81 ha, 11.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1412958.md - Parcel 1357611: 43,256 m² (4.33 ha, 10.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357611.md - Parcel 1309954: 40,228 m² (4.02 ha, 9.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309954.md - Parcel 1325625: 37,648 m² (3.76 ha, 9.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325625.md - Parcel 1394039: 36,645 m² (3.66 ha, 9.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394039.md - Parcel 1405784: 33,149 m² (3.31 ha, 8.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405784.md - Parcel 1339641: 29,858 m² (2.99 ha, 7.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339641.md - Parcel 1331932: 27,618 m² (2.76 ha, 6.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331932.md - Parcel 1361749: 24,774 m² (2.48 ha, 6.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361749.md - Parcel 1329125: 23,587 m² (2.36 ha, 5.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329125.md - Parcel 1329207: 22,965 m² (2.3 ha, 5.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329207.md - Parcel 1374073: 12,069 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374073.md - Parcel 4824872: 8,553 m² (0.86 ha, 2.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4824872.md - Parcel 1327213: 5,076 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1327213.md - Parcel 3958832: 5,027 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3958832.md - Parcel 1326367: 4,997 m² (0.5 ha, 1.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326367.md - Parcel 4824885: 4,019 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4824885.md - Parcel 5671566: 3,632 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5671566.md - Parcel 4750631: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4750631.md - Parcel 1385038: 3,166 m² (0.32 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385038.md - Parcel 3658096: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658096.md - Parcel 1342429: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342429.md - Parcel 1319757: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319757.md - Parcel 1337748: 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337748.md - Parcel 1340460: 1,941 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340460.md - Parcel 3658097: 1,218 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658097.md - Parcel 4824871: 671 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4824871.md - Parcel 3658098: 372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658098.md - Parcel 3658099: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658099.md - Parcel 3658100: 303 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658100.md - Parcel 3658101: 235 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658101.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballybuninabber 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 28 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560658: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560658/0 - 21 Sept 2022, Donegal County Council 2251578: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ATTACHED LEAN TO SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251578/0 - 18 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2051999: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051999/0 - 23 Dec 2019, Donegal County Council 1952036: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1952036/0 - 18 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951781: N/a. Permission. ERECTION OF SHEEPWIRE FENCING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS IN A SPECIAL CONSERVATION AREA. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951781/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - 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: Cloghernagore Bog And Glenveagh National Park, site code 002047 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG044-005001: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG044-005001-. This feature, named 'Druid's Grave' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5), is a round cairn in which a large cist containing a human skeleton and two small pottery vessels were found in around 1830 (OS Name Book, 1834; Fagan 1845-8; Waddell 1990, 70). A cairn c. 12m in diameter and 1m high is partly overgrown and disturbed. Turf cutting on the W side has revealed three revetment stones. An early report (Fagan Bk. 9, 6) records that an enclosed grave 6ft to 7ft in length made with stone slabs and covered by a slab 6ft 3in long was found in the 1830's. The cist contained pulverised earth and calcined bones. The cairn is located on a low rise in an area of blanket bog with a lot of rock outcrop. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 - DG044-005002: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG044-005002-. This feature, named 'Druid's Grave' on the original OS 6-inch map (1834-5), is a round cairn in which a large cist containing a human skeleton and two small pottery vessels were found in around 1830 (OS Name Book, 1834; Fagan 1845-8; Waddell 1990, 70). OS Name Book, Kilmacrenan parish (1834-5), book 1, 42; Fagan 1845-8, book 9, 6; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 44 (1847-9), 33; Kinahan 1889, 283 ('cave' seems to refer); Borlase 1897, 233, Kilmacrenan no. 23; A.I. Young 1929, 8 ('at Dun-owen'); Killanin and Duignan 1962, 336; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 337; Lacy 1983, 59-60, no. 238; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 46, no. 142; SMR 1987, 44:5; Waddell 1990, 70; RMP 1995, 44:5. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybuninabber. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballybuninabber, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybuninabber. - 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/ballybuninabber.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybuninabber.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballybuninabber.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballybuninabber 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) - Drumoghill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumoghill-51140.md - Losset: https://everytownland.com/donegal/losset.md - Loughaskerry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughaskerry.md - Meenbunone: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenbunone.md - Stragraddy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/stragraddy.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/ballybuninabber - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballybuninabber