Ballyhasky
Ballyhasky is a townland in the civil parish of Allsaints, barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 127.4 ha
- 315 acres
- Land parcels
- 202
- registered freehold, median 513 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 24
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
202 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhasky, from 20 m² to 286,927 m² (28.69 ha, 70.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 38 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhasky 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2026N/a
(1) ERECTION OF AN 18M HIGH MONOPOLE STRUCTURE TOGETHER WITH ANTENNAE, DISHES, ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT AND GROUND-BASED CABINETS, ALL ENCLOSED WITH SECURITY FENCING AND (2) EXTENSION OF THE FARM ACCESS TRACK TO REACH THE COMPOUND
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661559
10 Aug 2026N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION INCLUDING DORMERS TO THE REAR, WITH INTERNAL ALTERATIONS INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661487
14 Jul 2026Conditional
MODIFICATIONS TO THE DESIGN OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60032 COMPRISING OF AN INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA FROM 536SQM TO 634SQM, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND A CHANGE TO THE ROOF PROFILE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661305
14 Jan 2026N/a
MODIFICATION OF THE DESIGN OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 24/60032 WITH MODIFICATIONS TO COMPRISE OF AN INCREASE IN FLOOR AREA FROM 536SQM TO 634SQM, ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND A CHANGE TO THE ROOF PROFILE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660031
25 Nov 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF REAR EXTENSION AND GABLE WALL TO NORTH SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) ALTERATION AND RENOVATION WORKS INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE FRONT, SIDE AND REAR ELEVATIONS AND (3) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562068
10 Nov 2025Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SHED, (2) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER COMMERCIAL WHOLESALE POTATO STORE TO SHED FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRICAL SWITCHGEAR WITH ASSOCIATED HANDLING EQUIPMENT, (3) EXTERNAL LORRY AND TRAILER STORAGE IN EXISTING YARD WITH ACCESS ROAD FROM MAIN STREET TO EXISTING YARD PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52353 AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561952
17 Sept 2025N/a
(A) CHANGE OF USE OF FORMER COMMERCIAL WHOLESALE POTATO STORE TO SHED FOR STORAGE OF ELECTRICAL SWITCHGEAR WITH ASSOCIATED HANDLING EQUIPMENT, (B) EXTERNAL LORRY AND TRAILER STORAGE TO EXISTING YARD WITH ACCESS ROAD FROM MAIN STREET TO EXISTING YARD PERMITTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 21/52353 AND (C) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561597
18 Dec 2024Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 92/93 AND SUBSEQUENT PLANNING REF. NO. 10/70370 AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462118
5 Jun 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF BOILER ROOM AND GARDEN WALL (NEITHER OF WHICH FORM PART OF THE ORIGINAL HOUSE), CONSTRUCTION OF NEW GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION CONSISTING OF KITCHEN AND DINING AREA, AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS. THE HOUSE IS LISTED ON THE NATIONAL INVENTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE (RO. 40824004)
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460834
9 May 2024Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING MICA DEFECTIVE DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460685
18 Apr 2024Conditional
DOMESTIC GARAGE AT REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ANY ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460542
23 Jan 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A LIGHT INDUSTRIAL BUILDING WITH VEHICULAR/PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE, CARPARKING, SIGNAGE AND ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460032
21 Jul 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE STORAGE UNIT ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXISTING BUSINESS AND ALL SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351069
2 Jul 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, WITH CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151327
7 Sept 2020Conditional
CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING SHOP FROM RETAIL TO RETAIL/OFF-LICENCE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051250
12 Jun 2020Conditional
(1) ERECTION OF A SLATTED CATTLE SHED WITH STORAGE TANK UNDERNEATH (2) A SILAGE HOLDING PIT ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050754
6 Dec 2019Conditional
ONSITE SIGNAGE AT PREMISES KNOWN AS SHONA COURT AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION WITH MINOR ALTERATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE SAME TO THE REAR OF UNITS 4 & 5 SHONA COURT
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951894
21 Jan 2019Conditional
COMPLETION OF 7 DETACHED DWELLINGS WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS AS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF NO: 06/70194 INCLUDING PROPOSED ROADWAY, FOOTPATHS, GREEN AREAS, LAMPSTANDS, SEWER PIPEWORK, SURFACE WATER PIPEWORK AND MAINS PIPEWORK
Permission, 7 homes · Donegal County Council, 1950039
21 Dec 2018Conditional
RAISING THE ROOF LEVEL, CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. WALLPLATE DORMERS AND MINOR ALTERATIONS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1851988
26 Nov 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851796
19 Jul 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITH CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851103
20 Apr 2018Conditional
ERECTION OF TWO SEPARATE ADVERTISING SIGNS AND AN EXTERNAL RAMP FOR UNLOADING OF DELIVERY LORRIES ON PROPERTY
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850613
6 Mar 2018Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850327
26 Jun 2017Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750998
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhasky.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyhasky.
Architectural heritage
- Ballyhasky House, house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
Description
Detached five-bay two-storey house with attic storey, built c. 1780, having basement\cellar level to rear (south), and with later two-bay two-storey return to south, built c. 1880, and with single-bay single-storey shed\outbuilding attached to the east gable end. Pitched artificial slate roof (fibre cement) roof with projecting smooth rendered eaves course, cast-iron rainwater goods, and with smooth rendered chimneystacks to gable ends (east and west) having yellow polygonal clay pots over; smooth rendered chimneystack to the south gable end of return having yellow circular clay pots over. Painted roughcast rendered walls over projecting smooth rendered plinth course, and with smooth rendered banded and channelled quoins to the corners of the front elevation (north), to the west corner of the rear elevation, and to the south gable end of return. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted sills, and with six-over-six pane hornless timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to the rear having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and some replacement fittings. Central square-headed door opening to the front elevation (north) with render architrave door surround incorporating keystone over, smooth rendered reveals, timber panelled door with bolection mouldings, moulded timber lintel, and with plain overlight. Square-headed door opening to return with battened timber door; square-headed doorway at basement level to rear approached by steps from rear of building. Set back from road in own grounds to the south-east of Newtowncunningham. Mature trees and gardens to site. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a gravelled courtyard to the rear (south). Main two-storey outbuilding to the south having pitched natural slate roof with grey clayware ridge tiles and metal rainwater goods, random rubble walls, square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and replacement fittings, wrought-iron security bars\grilles to ground floor window openings, square-headed doorways with red brick block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber half-doors, segmental-headed carriage-arch having red brick voussoirs and red brick block-and-start surrounds, and with external flight of steps to the east gable end giving access to doorway at first floor level. Single-storey outbuildings to the west and to the east having corrugated-metal roofs, rubble stone walls, and square-headed window and door openings with red brick surrounds. Trees and hedgerows to site boundary to the west. Gateway to the north-west of site having a pair of smooth rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having inset roughcast rendered panels to front face (north), smooth rendered plinth course, smooth rendered coping, and with a pair of decorative wrought-iron gates.
- House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1820, having single-storey addition attached to the south gable end, and with single-storey return to the rear (west). Pitched natural slate roof having brick chimneystack with terracotta pots over. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with tripartite Wyatt-style timber siding sash windows. Central square-headed doorway having replacement timber door and plain overlight. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-east of Manorcunningham. Complex of single- and two-storey outbuildings arranged around a courtyard to the south having pitched natural slate roofs, roughcast rendered rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings with timber fittings.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyhasky, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1922 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyhasky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhasky
- Area
- 1,274,343 m² (127.43 ha, 314.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Allsaints, and its townlands
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Electoral division
- Castleforward, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,345 people lived in 444 households in the Castleforward electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Castleforward Demesne, Colehill, Drummay, Newtowncunningham, Plaster
- Placenames
- Ballyhasky 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.