Ballycroy
Ballycroy is a townland in the civil parish of Killaghtee, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 92 ha
- 227 acres
- Land parcels
- 67
- registered freehold, median 4,354 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycroy, from 46 m² to 86,010 m² (8.6 ha, 21.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycroy 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
30 Oct 2024Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) REMOVAL OF PARTS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO - STOREY EXTENSION WITH EXTERNAL BALCONY, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL STOREY TO AN EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING THE ADJUSTMENT OF EXISTING DRIVEWAY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461743
21 Dec 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051972
23 Oct 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051581
11 Jul 2019N/a
REDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DERELICT AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO HABITABLE DWELLING COTTAGE, INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951067
6 Jun 2019Conditional
RE-DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DERELICT AGRICULTURAL OUTBUILDING TO HABITABLE DWELLING, INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SAND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950838
7 Dec 2018Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF EXISITNG DWELLING INCLUDING CHANGES TO THE FENESTRATION OF THE ELEVATIONS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, MODIFICATIONS OF THE INTERNAL LAYOUT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (3) ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851865
14 Nov 2017Conditional
EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751718
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: St. John's Point SAC 000191
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. John's Point 000191
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycroy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycroy.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballycroy, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycroy.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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
- Ballycroy, St Johns Point6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballycroy
- Area
- 920,376 m² (92.04 ha, 227.43 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killaghtee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Dunkineely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 904 people lived in 351 households in the Dunkineely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballysaggart, Killultan
- Placenames
- Ballycroy 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.