# Ballydevitt, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Daibhéid. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,023,714 m² (102.37 ha, 252.97 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,240 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killymard, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/killymard.md - Barony: Banagh - Electoral division: Donegal, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/13999 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50196 - Centre: latitude 54.667292, longitude -8.138809 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydevitt, from 17 m² to 189,537 m² (18.95 ha, 46.84 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1390940: 189,537 m² (18.95 ha, 46.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390940.md - Parcel 1400874: 107,984 m² (10.8 ha, 26.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400874.md - Parcel 1426250: 88,524 m² (8.85 ha, 21.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426250.md - Parcel 1367632: 80,389 m² (8.04 ha, 19.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367632.md - Parcel 1400877: 73,757 m² (7.38 ha, 18.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400877.md - Parcel 1367630: 66,061 m² (6.61 ha, 16.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367630.md - Parcel 1367631: 65,689 m² (6.57 ha, 16.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367631.md - Parcel 1426251: 59,916 m² (5.99 ha, 14.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426251.md - Parcel 1400876: 38,022 m² (3.8 ha, 9.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400876.md - Parcel 1390941: 31,458 m² (3.15 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1390941.md - Parcel 1343663: 25,577 m² (2.56 ha, 6.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343663.md - Parcel 1426252: 23,614 m² (2.36 ha, 5.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426252.md - Parcel 1399032: 23,258 m² (2.33 ha, 5.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1399032.md - Parcel 1400875: 23,222 m² (2.32 ha, 5.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1400875.md - Parcel 1426267: 18,082 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426267.md - Parcel 2748602: 17,333 m² (1.73 ha, 4.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2748602.md - Parcel 1341914: 8,173 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341914.md - Parcel 1386715: 6,622 m² (0.66 ha, 1.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1386715.md - Parcel 1343095: 6,048 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343095.md - Parcel 1341256: 5,993 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341256.md - Parcel 1333874: 5,922 m² (0.59 ha, 1.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333874.md - Parcel 1336376: 5,755 m² (0.58 ha, 1.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336376.md - Parcel 3660852: 5,360 m² (0.54 ha, 1.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3660852.md - Parcel 5252707: 3,446 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5252707.md - Parcel 1380407: 3,033 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380407.md - Parcel 1317718: 2,813 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317718.md - Parcel 1366524: 2,772 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1366524.md - Parcel 1300707: 2,562 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1300707.md - Parcel 1332936: 2,553 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332936.md - Parcel 1334687: 2,399 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1334687.md - Parcel 4284714: 2,304 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4284714.md - Parcel 1372914: 2,138 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372914.md - Parcel 1402489: 2,016 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402489.md - Parcel 1323349: 1,984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323349.md - Parcel 1392983: 1,981 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392983.md - Parcel 1320880: 1,973 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1320880.md - Parcel 2605558: 1,846 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2605558.md - Parcel 1391941: 1,792 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391941.md - Parcel 6234633: 1,682 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6234633.md - Parcel 1423841: 1,659 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423841.md - Parcel 1378549: 1,549 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378549.md - Parcel 5498727: 1,351 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5498727.md - Parcel 1338466: 1,028 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338466.md - Parcel 1419604: 903 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419604.md - Parcel 1337189: 707 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1337189.md - Parcel 5489129: 563 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489129.md - Parcel 5489130: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5489130.md - Parcel 5498726: 17 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5498726.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballydevitt 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 Aug 2025, Donegal County Council 2561482: Conditional. Retention. (1) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) A PLAYHOUSE STRUCTURE TO FRONT OF HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561482/0 - 25 Feb 2024, Donegal County Council 2460208: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A STOREY AND A HALF DWELLING HOUSE WHICH WILL INCORPORATE AN ON-SITE WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460208/0 - 30 Aug 2023, Donegal County Council 2351295: Conditional. Retention. EXISTING TEAROOM AND PERMISSION FOR (A) INTERNAL RECONFIGURATION OF EXISTING BUILDING AND ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING NEW CLADDING TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND PROVISION OF NEW SIGNAGE, (B) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SOUTH-WEST OF EXISTING BUILDING, TO INCLUDE RETAIL SPACE, STORAGE, COVERED DISPLAY AREA, OUTDOOR DISPLAY WITH CHILDREN'S PLAY AREA AND SIGNAGE, (C) UPGRADING AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING CAR PARK, (D) ERECTION OF 3 NO. POLYTUNNELS TO NORTH-WEST OF CAR PARK, (E) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND REPLACEMENT WITH NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351295/0 - 12 Aug 2022, Donegal County Council 2251366: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251366/0 - 14 Sept 2020, Donegal County Council 2051283: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO-STOREY HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2051283/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballydevitt. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG093-004: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG093-004----. Internal diam. 10.2m. A subcircular area enclosed by an earthen bank up to .62m in height and an outer fosse 1.5m in width but much silted-up. There are slight traces of an internal ditch c. 0.75m in width but as the interior is cultivated it is impossible to say if this is an original feature. There are four breaks in the bank but one in the SE, 1.75m wide, most closely resembles an entrance. A field boundary crosses the site NNWSSE. It is situated on the crest of a hill falling steeply on all but the ENE side in cultivated land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008 - DG093-008: Stone head, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG093-008----. Church of Ireland church that was built in 1830. Inside the church there is a carved head which would appear to be of an ecclesiastic, probably a bishop. The face of the head is carved but the rear is unworked, it would appear that the whole was intended to be set in a wall. Beneath the head are the remains of a moulded window, top or could have been top of a tomb or wall niche. The rector of the church told us that the tradition is that the head is that of Captain Mard, the beneficiary of Killynard Church, and perhaps that a second head, depicting his wife also existed at one time, perhaps up to the 1940's. These two heads stood on the gateposts of Killynard old church and graveyard (Donegal Archaeological Survey). Date of revision : 17 May 2009 Caimin O'Brien 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) - Killymard Church of Ireland Church, church/chapel, 1825–1835, Regional interest, registry number 40909304, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40909304. Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1829 – 30 and remodelled in 1891, comprising a three-bay nave, shallow projecting chancel to the north-east, added c. 1891, having single-storey vestry attached to the north-west, double-height single-bay gable-fronted porch to the south-west gable, and having cut stone (granite?) bellcote to the south-west gable end of nave having moulded cut stone cornice and with cut stone pinnacle finial over. Modern single-storey boiler room attached to the north-west corner, and having single-bay single-storey toilet extension attached to the north-west corner of porch projection to the south-west corner. Pitched artificial slate roofs having raised ashlar sandstone coping/verges to the gable ends with moulded kneeler stones at eaves level; projecting cut stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone covers to drains. Single-pitched artificial slate roof to vestry having raised ashlar sandstone verge to the north-east end with moulded kneeler stone at eaves level. Roughcast rendered painted walls over recessed smooth rendered plinth course, and with diagonally-set, stepped clasping coursed sandstone buttresses to the corners of the nave having ashlar coping over. Pointed-arched window openings to the side elevation of nave (north-west and south-east) having ashlar sandstone surrounds, ashlar sandstone sills, and with timber Y-tracery windows with leaded/cast-iron multi-paned windows. Three graded pointed-arched window openings to the chancel gable having chamfered ashlar sandstone surrounds, chamfered ashlar sandstone sills, and leaded stained glass windows. Pointed-arched window opening to the south-west face of porch projection having ashlar sandstone surround and leaded glass. Pointed-arched doorway to the south-east elevation of porch projection having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround, and timber door. Square-headed doorway to the north-west elevation of vestry having chamfered ashlar sandstone block-and-start surround, and timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinge detailing. Gallery to the south-west end supported on timber columns, and having raked pine parapet/balustrade. Mosaic tiled floor with cast-iron heating vents; open timber roof structure; timber pews and lectern. Marble font. Smooth plastered walls with marble war memorials/dedications affixed. Carved stone head (DG093-008----) to interior, probably from a doorway or window of earlier church and depicting a bishop/ecclesiastical figure, probably moved from the former parish church (now ruinous) to the south-west at Eddrim (see (DG099-001001-). Set back from road in own grounds to the north-west of Donegal Town, and to the north-east of associated Church of Ireland rectory (see 40909305). Rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the north-west; rubble stone boundary walls to other boundaries. Gateway to the north-west comprising a pair of rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having replacement metal gates. ## 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 Ballydevitt, 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 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 Ballydevitt. - 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/ballydevitt.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballydevitt.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballydevitt.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydevitt 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) - Ballydevitt Beg: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballydevitt-beg.md - Clanboorhin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clanboorhin.md - Doonan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doonan.md - Drumark: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumark.md - Drumkeeghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumkeeghan.md - Drumstevlin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumstevlin.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/ballydevitt - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballydevitt