# Ballygay, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Tullyfern, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,418,172 m² (141.82 ha, 350.44 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 125,391 m² (12.54 ha, 30.98 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Tullyfern, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/tullyfern.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Glenalla, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Glenalla electoral division: 530 people in 178 households; 92% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 8% 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/15854 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50203 - Centre: latitude 55.081606, longitude -7.661771 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygay, from 12,030 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres) to 332,619 m² (33.26 ha, 82.19 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1423110: 332,619 m² (33.26 ha, 82.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423110.md - Parcel 1388082: 219,432 m² (21.94 ha, 54.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388082.md - Parcel 1388083: 157,178 m² (15.72 ha, 38.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388083.md - Parcel 1423106: 143,164 m² (14.32 ha, 35.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423106.md - Parcel 1423105: 129,372 m² (12.94 ha, 31.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423105.md - Parcel 1388086: 121,411 m² (12.14 ha, 30 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388086.md - Parcel 1331937: 114,148 m² (11.41 ha, 28.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331937.md - Parcel 1423107: 78,974 m² (7.9 ha, 19.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423107.md - Parcel 1388084: 23,888 m² (2.39 ha, 5.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388084.md - Parcel 5621951: 12,030 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5621951.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballygay 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) 6 applications, newest first. - 9 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2661275: Conditional. Permission. VARIATION OF CONDITION NO. 6 OF PLANNING REF. NO. 24/62001 TO EXTEND THE PERMITTED OPENING HOURS OF CHILDCARE FACILITY. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661275/0 - 5 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462001: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. CHILDCARE UNITS CONSISTING OF PLAYROOMS AND ANCILLARY FACILITIES, UPGRADING OF EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, ADDITIONAL CARPARKING ARRANGEMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462001/0 - 26 Jul 2024, Donegal County Council 2461145: N/a. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF 4 NO. CHILDCARE UNITS AND A STAFF FACILITY BUILDING WITH CONNECTION TO A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, ADDITIONAL CARPARKING ARRANGEMENTS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461145/0 - 21 Mar 2024, Donegal County Council 2460368: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF A DRY BEDDED / SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH INTEGRATED UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460368/0 - 9 Mar 2023, Donegal County Council 2350298: Conditional. Permission. (1) CHANGE OF USE OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE TO A PROPOSED CHILDCARE FACILITY, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND INTERNAL LAYOUT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTERNAL TOILET BLOCK WITH A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (3) ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING ARRANGEMENTS AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350298/0 - 15 Nov 2019, Donegal County Council 1951777: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, SEPARATE DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951777/0 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 Ballygay. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygay. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygay. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, moderately low (inferred), low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygay. - 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/ballygay.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballygay.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballygay.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballygay 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) - Aghanursan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghanursan.md - Carn High: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carn-high.md - Claggan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claggan-50604.md - Conaghrud: https://everytownland.com/donegal/conaghrud.md - Drumacloghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumacloghan.md - Fawninoughan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/fawninoughan.md - Glenkeen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/glenkeen.md - Kilwarry: https://everytownland.com/donegal/kilwarry.md - Loughdoo: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughdoo.md - Loughros Glebe: https://everytownland.com/donegal/loughros-glebe.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/ballygay - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballygay