# Ballykinard, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 419,057 m² (41.91 ha, 103.55 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,576 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Rosnakill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 264 people lived in 99 households in the Rosnakill electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 13% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/16072 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50221 - Centre: latitude 55.185924, longitude -7.678269 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykinard, from 128 m² to 177,723 m² (17.77 ha, 43.92 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1384567: 177,723 m² (17.77 ha, 43.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1384567.md - Parcel 1367825: 130,686 m² (13.07 ha, 32.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367825.md - Parcel 1367915: 24,887 m² (2.49 ha, 6.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367915.md - Parcel 1401189: 24,689 m² (2.47 ha, 6.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1401189.md - Parcel 3662575: 14,077 m² (1.41 ha, 3.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662575.md - Parcel 4993777: 5,376 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4993777.md - Parcel 3662574: 5,142 m² (0.51 ha, 1.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662574.md - Parcel 3662572: 4,134 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662572.md - Parcel 5221914: 3,538 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5221914.md - Parcel 3662573: 3,378 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662573.md - Parcel 1361533: 2,633 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361533.md - Parcel 3122420: 2,518 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3122420.md - Parcel 1367831: 1,637 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1367831.md - Parcel 3247180: 1,472 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3247180.md - Parcel 3122247: 1,372 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3122247.md - Parcel 5397386: 761 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5397386.md - Parcel 3122427: 588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3122427.md - Parcel 1402955: 251 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1402955.md - Parcel 4094680: 227 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4094680.md - Parcel 3122241: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3122241.md - Parcel 3662571: 141 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3662571.md - Parcel 1305748: 128 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305748.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballykinard 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 2 Dec 2025, Donegal County Council 2562124: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHEEP SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2562124/0 - 6 Oct 2025, Donegal County Council 2561738: Refused. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561738/0 - 28 Apr 2025, Donegal County Council 2550056: Conditional. Retention. GARAGE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING ONTO SITTING ROOM AND FRONT PORCH. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2550056/0 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 Ballykinard. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykinard. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Kinard Cottage, house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 40901730, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40901730. Detached three-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c. 1860, having single-bay single-storey roofed extension attached to the east. Possibly originally associated with a former smithy to the south of site, now demolished. Pitched thatched roof with raised render verges and smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west) having cornice copings over. Smooth rendered walls. Irregularly-spaced square-headed window openings with painted concrete sills, and replacement timber casement windows. Central square-headed doorway to the south elevation having replacement battened timber half-door. Aligned at a right-angle to the road-alignment with additional road running parallel to the rear of building. Enclosed garden to the south having smooth rendered boundary wall to road-frontage to the west; tidal estuary to the south boundary of garden. Located to the south of Rosnakill, and a short distance to the north of Keadew Bay. ## 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 Ballykinard, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballykinard. - 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/ballykinard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballykinard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballykinard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballykinard 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) - Aghadreenan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghadreenan.md - Cloghfin: https://everytownland.com/donegal/cloghfin-50644.md - Rathgory: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rathgory.md - Rosnakill: https://everytownland.com/donegal/rosnakill.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/ballykinard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballykinard