Ballyhork

50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhork, from 36 m² to 202,954 m² (20.3 ha, 50.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhork 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.

• 3 Jun 2026Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION ONTO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2650083

• 21 Jan 2019Conditional

  AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED AS BUILT AND ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950047

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhork.

Recorded monuments

• DG017-007 Standing stone
  Description

  According to the OS Memoir (1835), there was a 'Giant's Grave' in this townland. A description and accompanying sketch show an upright stone 31/2 feet (c. 1.05m) long and 5 feet (c. 1.5m) high beside a prostrate one of similar size. The precise location of the site is not recorded. However, it may be the feature named 'Standing Stones' on the original OS 6-inch map (1835) and 'Standing Stone' on the 1846-8 and 1905 editions, no trace of which now survives (Lacy 1983). This stone was located at NGR C 172 401. The available evidence indicates that it is unlikely that the feature referred to was a megalithic tomb. OS Memoirs, Clondavaddog parish (1835), 31 (sketch); Lacy 1983, 89, no. 515; SMR 1987, 17:7 may refer; RMP 1995, 17:7 may refer. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Pre-development testing was carried out Richard Crumlish under licence No. 08E0319 on 8 May 2008 at a site at Ballyhork townland on the Fanad peninsula in Co. Donegal. The site was located within the constraint for a standing stone site (DG017–007). The first edition of the OS six-inch sheet noted two standing stones here, while the second and third editions noted one. No surface trace of the monument survived. It would have been located a short distance (less than 20m) west of the proposed development, possibly on a prominent height across the road. The proposed development consisted of the construction of a slatted cattle shed with associated siteworks. The testing consisted of the excavation (by machine) of two trenches which measured 13m and 13.1m long respectively, 1.1–1.7m wide and 0.1–1.2m deep. The testing revealed concrete, modern fill and a rubble wall foundation associated with the recently demolished outhouses, above topsoil, natural subsoil and bedrock. Nothing of archaeological significance was revealed. Compiled by Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 18 November 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyhork, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhork.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyhork with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballyhork

Area

1,001,084 m² (100.11 ha, 247.37 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyheerin, Clooney and Gortnamona, Faltybanes, Lurgacloghan, Tullyconnell

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyhork 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.