Ballyederlan

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyederlan, from 99 m² to 123,515 m² (12.35 ha, 30.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyederlan 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.

• 21 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS OF EXISTING BARN (FORMER HEDGE SCHOOL) TO CREATE A PRIVATE HOUSE WITH DETACHED STORE (2) PROVISION OF (A) NEW VEHICULAR ACCESS (B) NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252049

• 15 Nov 2021Conditional

  (1) RENOVATIONS AND ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL LIVING AREA WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTERNAL COVERED SEATING AREA WITH AUXILIARY WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152249

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE & DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH RELOCATION OF BOTH ON SITE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 18/50385 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150448

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051582

• 14 Jan 2020N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE & DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH RELOCATION OF BOTH ON SITE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 18/50385 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050029

• 13 Dec 2019N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE & DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH RELOCATION OF BOTH ON SITE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER 18/50385 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951943

• 18 Jan 2019Refused

  ERECTION OF STOREY AND HALF TYPE DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950032

• 13 Mar 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850385

• 20 Feb 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850231

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: St. John's Point SAC 000191
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: St. John's Point 000191

Recorded monuments

• DG098-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 25.5m. A subcircular platform up to 1.3m above the surrounding land enclosed by an earthen bank up to .7m high which has been largely removed on the E side. The interior is flat. The surrounding ground is marshy but there is no specific evidence for a fosse. The site is located on top of a slight ridge in generally good pasture. 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

• DG098-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27.75m. Originally a circular platform up to 1.5m high. It has been truncated by modern drains and field boundaries. The top is flat. The site is located on the crest of a low ridge in fair pasture. 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

• DG098-041 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on SW facing slope of poorly drained land. Large circular enclosure visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between November 2011 and March 2012. High grass growth at time of inspection obscured evidence of enclosure which was barely visible as a low circular rise of ground. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 6 October 2015

• DG098-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on flat grassland with good views in all directions. Raised circular area (diam. 30.5m E-W; 33.5n N-S; H 1m) enclosed by a poorly preserved bank mainly reduced to a scarp (H 1m) and shallow external fosse (Wth 4m; ext. D 0.3m). No clear entrance feature visible. Possible ringfort visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph taken between November 2011 and March 2012. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 October 2015

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic level, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey extensions/sheds attached to either gable end (north-east and south-west). Pitched/domed thatched roof (recently re-thatched) having roughcast rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north-east and south-west). Timber, stone or metal pegs below eaves level for securing ropes over thatch to the main elevations and to the gable ends. Domed corrugated-metal roof to shed extension to the south-west gable end and flat felt roof over shed extension to the north-east gable end. Roughcast rendered and whitewashed rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings having rounded painted (timber?) sills and with six-over-six pane timber sash windows. Single square-headed window opening to the rear elevation (north-west) having two-over-two pane timber casement window. Central square-headed doorway to the main elevation having plinth blocks to base and with battened timber double-door. Set back from road with garden to the front of site; bounded on road-frontage by dry stone wall. Altered single-storey outbuilding to the north-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls and square-headed openings with timber fittings. Located to the west side of St. John's Point with McSwyne's Bay to the rear, and to the south/south-west of Dunkineely.

• Outbuilding, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-bay single-storey gable-fronted vernacular outbuilding, built c. 1860. Originally associated with vernacular house to the north-west, now demolished. Pitched/domed thatched roof having ropes and wire over secured on metal and timber pegs below eaves level, and to gable ends. Rubble stone walls, partially whitewashed and rendered. Square-headed doorway to the south-east elevation having battened timber door. Set slightly back from road with garden to the front of site; bounded on road-frontage by dry stone wall. Located to the west side of St. John's Point with McSwyne's Bay to the rear, and to the south/south-west of Dunkineely.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyederlan, about 1 in 10 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 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 Ballyederlan.

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.

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

Name

Ballyederlan

Area

1,295,508 m² (129.55 ha, 320.13 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, Menamny

Placenames

Ballyederlan 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.