Ballygorman

163 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygorman, from 32 m² to 220,009 m² (22 ha, 54.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballygorman 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.

• 30 Jul 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A STORAGE SHED WITH OFFICE TO SERVICE EXISTING ESTABLISHED PIG UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661433

• 18 Mar 2026Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION OF EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING RAISING HEIGHT OF ROOF, ROOF LIGHTS, REMOVAL OF DOOR ON FRONT ELEVATION AND ADDITION OF WINDOWS ON GABLE ENDS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660437

• 6 Mar 2026N/a

  FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION OF EXISTING DWELLING, INCLUDING RAISING HEIGHT OF ROOF AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660352

• 11 Feb 2026Conditional

  ERECTION OF A WEANER HOUSE AND PIG FATTENING HOUSE TO REPLACE EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK EFFECTED WEANER HOUSE AND FATTENING HOUSE, DEMOLITION AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660180

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. 99/4278 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING TO BE CONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561875

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  (A) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 97/1172 REFERS) AND (B) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561397

• 17 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560595

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560480

• 14 Oct 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING RESTAURANT AREA, ERECTION OF TWO STOREY EXTENSION AND ALTERATIONS TO PROPERTY OF SEAVIEW TAVERN CONTAINING (1) UPGRADING OF RESTAURANT AREA TO INCLUDE NEW TOILETS AND BAR, (2) REVISED RECEPTION AREA AND GLAZED SITTING AREA AT GROUND FLOOR LEVEL, (3) PROVISION OF 7 NO. BEDROOMS AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL AND (4) NEW STORAGE AREA AT BASEMENT LEVEL TO INCLUDE UNDER ROADWAY PEDESTRIAN CROSSING (ROAD NO. L-1021-1), ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES ON SITE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461616

• 27 Mar 2024Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460408

• 27 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION AND REMOVAL OF EXISTING SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION AND BOILER HOUSE TO REAR (SOUTH) OF HOUSE, (2) PROVISION OF A TWO-STOREY EXTENSION TO WEST SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM/PERCOLATION AREA, AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460226

• 14 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460148

• 13 Feb 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ONSITE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460144

• 6 Jul 2023Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350979

• 8 Jun 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350816

• 31 Mar 2023N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350420

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  (A)CHANGE OF USE FROM DWELLING TO 4NO. APARTMENTS, (B) CHANGE OF USE FROM GARAGE TO 1 NO.APARTMENT, (C) CONSTRUCTION OF DORMERS AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050926

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  (A) CHANGE OF USE OF ROOF SPACE TO PROVIDE FIRST FLOOR ACCOMMODATION AND (B) GROUND FLOOR REAR AND SIDE EXTENSIONS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2050930

• 21 Feb 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SILAGE PIT WITH ASSOCIATED EFFLUENT RUN-OFF TANK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1950213

• 14 Jan 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH SEPTIC TANK/TREATMENT PLANT AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950017

• 29 Nov 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851833

• 21 Sept 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851472

• 4 May 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A ONE AND A HALF STOREY DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850713

• 12 Feb 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850208

• 29 Jan 2018Conditional

  ERECTION OF SILAGE WALLS ON EXISTING SILAGE SLAB AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850106

The 25 most recent of 26 applications.

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: North Inishowen Coast SAC 002012
• Special Protection Area: Malin Head SPA 004146
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: North Inishowen Coast 002012

Recorded monuments

• DG002-001 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Marked 'Doon' on the OS 6-inch maps there is now no trace of the landward earthworks recorded here (Davies and Swan 1939, 206-7). It would seem likely that this was a promontory fort. 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

• DG002-002001 Church
  Description

  The ruins of a simple church, 11.7m × 4.25m internally, stand by the shore at the base of a cliff on the N side of Malin Head. Built of split-stone rubble and some boulders, with pinnings, only the N, E and S walls survive. The SE quoin has completely fallen away. The E gable stands almost to original height. The central narrow window has widely splayed ingoings and is lintelled; the jambs and sill are missing. The N wall survives to a height of 2.3m and is featureless. The S wall is 2.5m high and has the remains of a narrow window with widely splayed ingoings at its E end. The jambs, sill and most of the E ingoing have fallen away. There is a wall-press, its E opening now ruined, set lengthways into the thickness of the wall below this window. The church door was probably in the W gable but only the footings of the N section of the wall survive. Traces of plaster are visible on the interior of the church and patches of the exterior rendering survive. The footings of an altar and other structures are discernible among the fallen masonry at the E end of the church. A rude face carved on the top stone of the corner between the S wall and the E gable (DA 1953-4, 503), is now in the National Museum of Ireland (Reg. No. 1972:5). This consists of a rectangular block of stone, all four sides of which are dressed. On one end there is a broad D-shaped projection on which is incised a human face, the eyes, nose and mouth of which are represented by deep grooves. The block is .41m × 0.26m × 0.25m. The site is said to be associated with St. Morialagh of Clonca (Rowan 1979, 418) but the surviving church remains are probably medieval. To the SW of the church is a rock-cut cave (DG002-002003-), known as the 'Wee House of Malin'. It is 1.3m across the opening which has been partly built up with stones allegedly from the church. It is 2.75m deep and 2.25m high. To the E of the church along the shore is a holy well (DG002-003-). 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

• DG002-002002 Hut site
  Description

  Internal diam. 3.5m. A circular foundation .6m high consisting of two outer drystone facings with a small stone core. The wall is .65m wide but is robbed on the W and N sides. There is a possible entrance on the N side. It is situated almost on the foreshore close to the church (DG002-002001-). 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

• DG002-002003 Cave
  Description

  Cut into a rock face on the N shoreline of Malin Head. Recorded by the Donegal Survey (Lacy et al 1983, 242, no. 1516) as follows: To the SW of the church (DG002-002001-) is a rock-cut cave, known as the 'Wee House of Malin'. It is 1.3m across the opening which has been partly built up with stones allegedly from the church. It is 2.75m deep and 2.25m high. To the E of the church along the shore is a holy well (DG002-003----). The following details have been kindly supplied by Dr Marion Dowd (August 2013): This small cave (2.75m long x 1.3m wide x 2.25m high) is located on the seashore at Malin. It is partially, if not entirely, artificially rock-cut and a relatively modern wall has been constructed across the entrance. The cave is associated with a holy well (DG002-003----) known as Malin Well or Tobar Muireadagh and a Medieval church (DG002-002001-) known as Gorman Church (Lacy et al. 1983, 242). All three sites are associated with St. Muirdhealach, a hermit who is said to have lived in The Wee House of Malin (Ó Muirgheasa 1936, 160-1; Fitzgerald n.y., 2). Local tradition claims that the cave ‘holds all that goes into it, and the more goes into it, it holds the more’ (Beattie et al. 2000, 40). The pátrún to the site, known as Malin Well Fair, was held on the 15th of August but formerly on the 1st May and at midsummer (Ó Muirgheasa 1936; Fitzgerald n.y., 2). Pilgrims bathed in the holy well and prayed in the cave (Logan 1980, 61). The date at which this cave came to be of cultural significance is not known. Date of revised upload: 14 February 2020

• DG002-002004 Stone head
  Description

  The ruins of a simple church (DG002-002001-) stand by the shore at the base of a cliff on the N side of Malin Head. A rude face carved on the top stone of the corner between the S wall and the E gable (DA 1953-4, 503), is now in the National Museum of Ireland (Reg. No. 1972:5). This consists of a rectangular block of stone, all four sides of which are dressed. On one end there is a broad D-shaped projection on which is incised a human face, the eyes, nose and mouth of which are represented by deep grooves. The block is .41m × 0.26m × 0.25m. The site is said to be associated with St. Morialagh of Clonca (Rowan 1979, 418) but the surviving church remains are probably medieval. To the SW of the church is a rock-cut cave (DG002-002003-), known as the 'Wee House of Malin'. It is 1.3m across the opening which has been partly built up with stones allegedly from the church. It is 2.75m deep and 2.25m high. To the E of the church along the shore is a holy well (DG002-003-).

• DG002-004 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  Marked Dungolgan on the OS 6-inch maps it comprises a precipitous promontory approached by a very narrow neck of land in places less than 1m wide. There are unconvincing indications of a possible bank and fosse on this isthmus itself. At its N or sea end is a 13.5m stretch of earthen bank, possibly the remains of the triangular earthwork recorded here (Davies and Swan 1939, 207). Just S of the land side of the approaching neck is a 1.75m square sunken feature. 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

• DG002-005 Hut site
  Description

  A rectangular earthen foundation, 6m N-S x 4.5m E-W, barely rises above ground level. On high, level ground overlooking the sea. 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

• DG002-006 Promontory fort - coastal
  Description

  'Doherty's Dun on a narrow promontory overlooked by higher ground on the land side. It is defended by a stretch of earthen bank c. 26.5m long and 1.38m high interrupted E of the centre by a 3.8m gap. There is an external fosse up to 1.9m wide and 0.7m deep. 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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygorman.

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 Ballygorman, about 1 in 20 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 Ballygorman.

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.

• Ballygorman, Malin Head10 sales

Name

Ballygorman · Baile Uí Ghormáin

Area

3,292,406 m² (329.24 ha, 813.57 acres)

Civil parish

Clonca, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ardmalin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

673 people lived in 237 households in the Ardmalin electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 43% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardmalin, Bree

Placenames

Ballygorman 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.