# Ballyheerin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Uí Shírín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,191,607 m² (119.16 ha, 294.45 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,147 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 13 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Fanad West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15809 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50209 - Centre: latitude 55.200279, longitude -7.724214 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheerin, from 62 m² to 132,876 m² (13.29 ha, 32.83 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1367560: 132,876 m² (13.29 ha, 32.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367560.md - Parcel 1301857: 89,658 m² (8.97 ha, 22.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301857.md - Parcel 1413067: 64,227 m² (6.42 ha, 15.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413067.md - Parcel 1357392: 59,668 m² (5.97 ha, 14.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357392.md - Parcel 1413470: 55,867 m² (5.59 ha, 13.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413470.md - Parcel 1321792: 51,116 m² (5.11 ha, 12.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321792.md - Parcel 1352166: 47,638 m² (4.76 ha, 11.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352166.md - Parcel 1427018: 47,331 m² (4.73 ha, 11.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427018.md - Parcel 1332144: 45,924 m² (4.59 ha, 11.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332144.md - Parcel 1330729: 45,685 m² (4.57 ha, 11.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330729.md - Parcel 4942374: 45,014 m² (4.5 ha, 11.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4942374.md - Parcel 1388575: 40,724 m² (4.07 ha, 10.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388575.md - Parcel 1316163: 40,580 m² (4.06 ha, 10.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316163.md - Parcel 1312323: 39,940 m² (3.99 ha, 9.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312323.md - Parcel 1318874: 34,828 m² (3.48 ha, 8.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1318874.md - Parcel 1315462: 33,034 m² (3.3 ha, 8.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315462.md - Parcel 1423657: 30,897 m² (3.09 ha, 7.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423657.md - Parcel 1331123: 21,256 m² (2.13 ha, 5.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331123.md - Parcel 1385096: 20,800 m² (2.08 ha, 5.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1385096.md - Parcel 3658517: 18,638 m² (1.86 ha, 4.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658517.md - Parcel 1380722: 17,761 m² (1.78 ha, 4.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380722.md - Parcel 1339331: 17,419 m² (1.74 ha, 4.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339331.md - Parcel 1323563: 17,370 m² (1.74 ha, 4.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1323563.md - Parcel 1379072: 17,179 m² (1.72 ha, 4.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1379072.md - Parcel 1394795: 13,791 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394795.md - Parcel 1313513: 13,375 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313513.md - Parcel 1377056: 11,631 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377056.md - Parcel 1369553: 9,357 m² (0.94 ha, 2.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369553.md - Parcel 1377096: 8,585 m² (0.86 ha, 2.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1377096.md - Parcel 1339228: 8,476 m² (0.85 ha, 2.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339228.md - Parcel 1347243: 6,379 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1347243.md - Parcel 1352104: 5,610 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352104.md - Parcel 1352003: 5,528 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352003.md - Parcel 1411277: 5,160 m² (0.52 ha, 1.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1411277.md - Parcel 1310142: 4,217 m² (0.42 ha, 1.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310142.md - Parcel 4856798: 4,078 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4856798.md - Parcel 2885551: 3,064 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2885551.md - Parcel 1348332: 3,037 m² (0.3 ha, 0.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1348332.md - Parcel 5934835: 2,828 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5934835.md - Parcel 1312671: 2,708 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1312671.md - Parcel 5937042: 2,669 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5937042.md - Parcel 1405897: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405897.md - Parcel 4984249: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984249.md - Parcel 3705188: 2,058 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705188.md - Parcel 1343992: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1343992.md - Parcel 4984245: 2,045 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984245.md - Parcel 1313044: 2,026 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313044.md - Parcel 1331345: 1,940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331345.md - Parcel 1322098: 1,831 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322098.md - Parcel 1423658: 1,739 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423658.md - Parcel 4984229: 1,714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4984229.md - Parcel 1325670: 1,711 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325670.md - Parcel 1310844: 1,609 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1310844.md - Parcel 1338804: 1,581 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338804.md - Parcel 5039751: 1,515 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5039751.md - Parcel 1322331: 1,388 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1322331.md - Parcel 1329926: 1,327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1329926.md - Parcel 1317353: 1,305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1317353.md - Parcel 1336181: 1,231 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336181.md - Parcel 1419319: 1,206 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419319.md - Parcel 1319372: 964 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1319372.md - Parcel 1316541: 938 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1316541.md - Parcel 1392348: 822 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392348.md - Parcel 3705179: 809 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3705179.md - Parcel 5021255: 743 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5021255.md - Parcel 1388574: 531 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388574.md - Parcel 1423659: 305 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1423659.md - Parcel 3658516: 180 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658516.md - Parcel 1321171: 132 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321171.md - Parcel 1350592: 62 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1350592.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyheerin 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) 13 applications, newest first. - 3 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561725: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561725/0 - 27 Sept 2025, Donegal County Council 2561678: N/a. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561678/0 - 9 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2560532: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560532/0 - 23 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2462180: Conditional. Permission. ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2462180/0 - 21 Dec 2023, Donegal County Council 2351991: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351991/0 - 17 Aug 2023, Donegal County Council 2351219: Refused. Permission. ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351219/0 - 29 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350746: N/a. Permission. ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF NEW PUMPED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350746/0 - 11 May 2023, Donegal County Council 2350649: N/a. Permission. ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF NEW PUMPED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2350649/0 - 2 Feb 2021, Donegal County Council 2150131: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2150131/0 - 22 Dec 2020, Donegal County Council 2052015: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2052015/0 - 26 Sept 2018, Donegal County Council 1851497: Conditional. Retention. AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851497/0 - 1 Aug 2018, Donegal County Council 1851201: N/a. Retention. THE MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED RESULTING IN THE INCREASE OF THE OVERALL FLOOR AREA AND HEIGHT OF THE DOMESTIC SHED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1851201/0 - 11 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850541: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, MINOR INTERNAL RENOVATION WORKS AND PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING FINISHES/ELEVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850541/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC, site code 002159, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002159 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG017-009: Burial ground, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-009----. The eastern half of a circular, flat-topped platform 1m in height and c. 20m in diameter survives to indicate this burial ground. The W side has been destroyed by road widening. The edge of the area is revetted by large stones and there is a lot of stone on the platform top. It is located on a slight W to E slope in grazing land. 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 - DG017-010: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-010----. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map marks an 'Old Church' at this site. It had apparently been removed by the time of the 2nd edition. The site has now been built over. 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 - DG017-028: Penal Mass station, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG017-028----. Depicted on current edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Altar (Remains of)' but not marked on first ed. 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) - House, 1860–1900, Regional interest, registry number 40901717, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901717. Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having projecting single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and with single-storey lean-to addition attached to the south. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, eaves course, raised rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south). Hipped cement rendered slate roof to entrance porch. Mono-pitched felt roof to lean-to. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls with exposed rubble stone construction to entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed doorway to porch having battened timber door with blocked overlight. Set back from road with pair of single-storey outbuildings set perpendicular to house to the north having pitched natural slate roof and barrel-vaulted corrugated-metal roofs, smooth rendered and rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Yard to front (east). Located to the north-east of Milltown to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Property overlooks Bush Bay to the east. - House, 1890–1920, Regional interest, registry number 40901719, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901719. Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1900 and possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier structure to sites, having projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with exposed rafter ends, no rainwater goods and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south). Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to main elevation (west), cement rendered walls to gable ends. Square-headed window openings to main elevation with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to the south elevation having timber casement windows, and square-headed window opening at attic level to the north gable end having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed doorway to front elevation of porch having battened timber door, and with plain overlight above to main body of building. Set parallel and alongside road with concrete path to front and set adjacent to two-storey mid-twentieth century building to west. Located to the north\north-east of Milltown to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. ## 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 Ballyheerin, 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: 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 Ballyheerin. - 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/ballyheerin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyheerin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyheerin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyheerin 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) - Ballyhork: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyhork.md - Clooney and Gortnamona: https://everytownland.com/donegal/clooney-and-gortnamona.md - Doocarrick: https://everytownland.com/donegal/doocarrick.md - Lurgacloghan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/lurgacloghan.md - Muineagh: https://everytownland.com/donegal/muineagh-52102.md - Tully: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tully-52585.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/ballyheerin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballyheerin