Ballyconnelly
Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 228.4 ha
- 564 acres
- Land parcels
- 70
- registered freehold, median 8,438 m² (0.84 ha, 2.09 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconnelly, from 274 m² to 322,832 m² (32.28 ha, 79.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballyconnelly 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
16 Jul 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561217
9 Oct 2024Conditional
(1) RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE AND (3) CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461590
17 Sept 2024N/a
(1) RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO SIDE AND REAR OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING, AND (3) CONNECTION TO NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461464
27 Mar 2024Conditional
(1) EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED DORMER BUNGALOW DWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE (MICA) PRECAST CONCRETE BLOCKS, (2) RECONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACMENT DETACHED TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS FROM THAT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, AND (3) CONNECTION TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460405
20 Mar 2024Conditional
SITE CLEARANCE WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED WITH INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460367
4 Dec 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351862
19 May 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150960
27 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851174
23 Jan 2018N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850075
9 Feb 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750172
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 Ballyconnelly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyconnelly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyconnelly.
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 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 Ballyconnelly.
- 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 Ballyconnelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyconnelly
- Area
- 2,284,366 m² (228.44 ha, 564.48 acres)
- Civil parish
- Tullyfern, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Glenalla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Glenalla electoral division: 530 people in 178 households; 92% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardnaree, Brownknowe, Carn High, Drumherrive, Glenalla, Glentidaly, Longhill, Ray, Tirroddy
- Placenames
- Ballyconnelly 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.