Ballylawn

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylawn, from 23 m² to 915,112 m² (91.51 ha, 226.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballylawn 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.

• 28 May 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450148

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251278

• 8 Jul 2022Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DOMESTIC SHED TO THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY (2) DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW SITE ENTRANCE TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251175

• 21 Jul 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151466

• 17 Aug 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ASSOCIATED POLISHING FILTER SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051122

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 Ballylawn.

Recorded monuments

• DG021-006 Standing stone
  Description

  It is recorded that a standing stone located in this vicinity was removed in 1942 (M. R. Colhoun). 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 Ballylawn.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2236 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Ballylawn, Moville5 sales

Name

Ballylawn

Area

3,013,380 m² (301.34 ha, 744.62 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Moville, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Castlecary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlecary electoral division: 692 people in 245 households; 87% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyrattan, Carrownaff, Cooly, Glebe, Moneydarragh

Placenames

Ballylawn 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.