Ballyconnelly

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconnelly, from 46 m² to 95,448 m² (9.54 ha, 23.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 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 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.

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  (A) PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF TWO EXISTING VACANT / DISUSED SINGLE STOREY AGRICULTURAL SHEDS AND RECONSTRUCTION ON THE SAME FOOTPRINT WITH EXTENSIONS AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND CHANGE OF USE TO A WEAVING WORKSHOP, DISPLAY AND SALES AREA AND WEAVING MATERIAL STORAGE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ACCESS ROADWAY AND UPGRADE OF THE EXISTING ACCESS ROADWAY AND ENTRANCE, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF A CAR PARK, (D) PROVISION OF A KITCHENETTE, TOILET, ACCOMMODATION AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED DRAINAGE AND SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351625

• 22 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951625

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  (a) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO CONNECT EXISTING DWELLING TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE (b) CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO PROVIDE FOR A SMALLER GARAGE SPACE WITH RELOCATED GARAGE DOOR AND A PLAY ROOM ON THE GROUND FLOOR AND A PRIVATE OFFICE AND STORAGE ROOM IN THE ATTIC SPACE INCLUDING ALL ELEVATION ALTERATIONS (c) ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750414

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

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

• DG061-021 Battlefield
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1810 and extended to the south-east c. 1860, having projecting single-bay windbreak entrance porch to north-east. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) having projecting eaves course, and with three smooth rendered chimneystacks with rendered copings over. Roughcast rendered walls over battered smooth rendered plinth course; battered corner to the west. Square-headed openings with painted concrete sills, and with six-over-six timber pane sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway to windbreak porch having battened timber door. Set back from road in rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north-east, built c. 1860, having pitched corrugated-metal roof, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and square-headed doorways with timber doors. Series of three-bay and two-bay single-storey (former) houses to north having pitched corrugated-sheeted roofs with smooth rendered chimneystacks, whitewashed rubble stone walls, and with square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber panelled doors. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the north-west of site having pitched slate roof and rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Detached three-bay single-storey former dwelling adjacent to road to the north-west having pitched corrugated-metal roof with raised rendered verges to the gable ends and rubble stone chimneystack to the west gable end, rubble stone walls, square-headed window openings with replacement windows, and central square-headed doorway with replacement door. Single-storey former flax mill to the south-west.

• Ballyconnelly Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over Roughan River, built c. 1800, having V-profile cement rendered rubble stone cutwater to the central pier to both upstream and downstream elevations. Bridge rises from either end to centre creating slightly hump-backed from. Segmental-headed arches having dressed cut stone voussoirs; cement rendered rubble stone construction to the arch barrels. Cement rendered random rubble stone construction to pier, spandrels, and parapets. Rubble stone and rendered coping to parapet. Ordnance Survey benchmark to coping stone to parapet. Modern utility pipe to the south elevation. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of Letterkenny.

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 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.

No address of the register names Ballyconnelly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballyconnelly

Area

590,765 m² (59.08 ha, 145.98 acres)

Civil parish

Leck, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Ballymacool, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacool electoral division: 2,741 people in 963 households; 62% of households own their home; 66% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardahee, Bomany, Brownhall, Roughan, Tullygay

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.