# Ballygallan, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Raphoe South, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Uí Ghalláin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 4,084,017 m² (408.4 ha, 1,009.18 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,896 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Conwal, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/conwal.md - Barony: Raphoe South - Electoral division: Meencargagh, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 148 people lived in 47 households in the Meencargagh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16473 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50201 - Centre: latitude 54.910222, longitude -7.894768 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygallan, from 397 m² to 845,506 m² (84.55 ha, 208.93 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1301577: 845,506 m² (84.55 ha, 208.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301577.md - Parcel 1391336: 836,523 m² (83.65 ha, 206.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1391336.md - Parcel 1372093: 788,884 m² (78.89 ha, 194.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372093.md - Parcel 1388573: 509,037 m² (50.9 ha, 125.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388573.md - Parcel 1378609: 209,816 m² (20.98 ha, 51.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378609.md - Parcel 1346756: 192,442 m² (19.24 ha, 47.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346756.md - Parcel 1357721: 114,329 m² (11.43 ha, 28.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357721.md - Parcel 1423656: 98,416 m² (9.84 ha, 24.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423656.md - Parcel 1309861: 40,330 m² (4.03 ha, 9.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1309861.md - Parcel 1339847: 19,522 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339847.md - Parcel 1330366: 12,607 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330366.md - Parcel 5717743: 9,274 m² (0.93 ha, 2.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5717743.md - Parcel 5214808: 5,973 m² (0.6 ha, 1.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214808.md - Parcel 1395382: 5,476 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395382.md - Parcel 5214802: 5,432 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214802.md - Parcel 5214834: 5,112 m² (0.51 ha, 1.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5214834.md - Parcel 4950089: 4,680 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950089.md - Parcel 5717735: 4,208 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5717735.md - Parcel 4950102: 4,168 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4950102.md - Parcel 1393192: 3,895 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393192.md - Parcel 4333811: 3,304 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4333811.md - Parcel 1403085: 3,143 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403085.md - Parcel 1403256: 2,874 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403256.md - Parcel 3664554: 2,804 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664554.md - Parcel 3664558: 2,329 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3664558.md - Parcel 1407811: 1,849 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1407811.md - Parcel 4725366: 1,437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725366.md - Parcel 4725381: 1,348 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725381.md - Parcel 4725413: 1,191 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4725413.md - Parcel 1406677: 825 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406677.md - Parcel 5717749: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5717749.md - Parcel 1375065: 397 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375065.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballygallan 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) 1 application, newest first. - 29 Nov 2023, Donegal County Council 2351823: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351823/0 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 Ballygallan. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG060-015: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG060-015----. Marked 'Standing Stone' on the 1906 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygallan. ## 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 Ballygallan, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygallan. - 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/ballygallan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballygallan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballygallan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballygallan 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) - Cark: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cark.md - Crossogs: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crossogs.md - Drumenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumenan-51042.md - Drumnahough: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnahough.md - Meenadaura or Drumnahough Mountain: https://everytownland.com/donegal/meenadaura-or-drumnahough-mountain.md - Treankeel: https://everytownland.com/donegal/treankeel.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/ballygallan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballygallan