Ballyliffin

430 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyliffin, from 1 m² to 793,402 m² (79.34 ha, 196.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Ballyliffin 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.

• 13 Sept 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661693

• 14 Jul 2026Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 25/61600, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661303

• 19 Jun 2026Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661137

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562320

• 22 Dec 2025Conditional

  FIRST FLOOR CONVERSION AND FRONT PORCH AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCK AFFECTED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES ON SITE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562327

• 19 Dec 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO AN ON-SITE EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562308

• 17 Sept 2025Conditional

  (A) MINOR ELEVATION CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF: 06/70857, (B) RELOCATION AND MINOR ELEVATION CHANGES TO EXISTING SHED, AND (C) GARDEN ROOM AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS; PLANNING REF: 06/70857, AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561600

• 27 Jun 2025Conditional

  APARTMENT TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561087

• 24 Jun 2025N/a

  APARTMENT TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561064

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING FOUNDATIONS, RISING WALLS TO SUBFLOOR LEVEL AND FLOOR SLAB FOR SHED PREVIOUSLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW PRIVATE GARAGE / STORAGE SHED, (3) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560744

• 6 May 2025N/a

  (1) REMOVAL OF EXISTING FOUNDATIONS, RISING WALLS TO SUBFLOOR LEVEL AND FLOOR SLAB FOR SHED PREVIOUSLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, (2) ERECTION OF A NEW PRIVATE GARAGE / STORAGE SHED, (3) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560711

• 15 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF PROPERTY AND (2) A DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560571

• 28 Jan 2025Conditional

  RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560092

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  EXTENSION AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO EXISTING DWELLING UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 96/890 AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 96/890 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2462109

• 10 Dec 2024N/a

  FOUNDATIONS, RISING WALLS TO SUBFLOOR LEVEL AND FLOOR SLAB AND PERMISSION FOR (1) COMPLETION OF A PRIVATE GARAGE / STORAGE SHED AND (2) PARTIAL DEMOLITION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2462034

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  (1) ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS, (2) INCREASED ROOF PITCH AND (3) FIRST FLOOR WITH CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461808

• 2 Jul 2024Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 99/2697, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE REBUILT HOUSE, RECONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460999

• 17 Jun 2024N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 99/2697, (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE REBUILT HOUSE, TO BE RECONNECTED TO THE EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460910

• 2 Apr 2024Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460426

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 21/51468 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351759

• 14 Nov 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A COVERED WAITING AND DISPLAY AREA AND (2) A COVERED PARKING AREA WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351722

• 10 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF (A) 4 NO. EXISTING PARTIALLY COMPLETED DWELLINGS AND (B) FOUNDATIONS AND SUBFLOOR FOR 7 NO. UNCOMPLETED DWELLINGS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 07/70890 AND (2) ERECTION OF 33 NO. DWELLINGS WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 33 homes · Donegal County Council, 2351711

• 29 May 2023Conditional

  A MODULAR HOME WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN PUBLIC SEWER AND ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350749

• 2 May 2023Conditional

  (1) CHANGE OF USE FROM RETAIL UNIT TO A DOMESTIC DWELLING, (2) NEW ROOF AND ALTERATIONS TO ELEVATIONS AND (3) CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350584

• 18 Apr 2023Conditional

  FOUNDATIONS, RISING WALLS TO SUB-FLOOR LEVEL AND FLOOR SLAB AND PERMISSION FOR THE ERECTION OF A PRIVATE GARAGE/STORAGE SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2350519

The 25 most recent of 63 applications.

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 Ballyliffin.

Recorded monuments

• DG010-003 Clochan
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• DG010-008 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  An oval-shaped area, 8.8m NNE-SSW × 5.9m and 1.25m high, although heather covered, seems to be a cairn. It is situated just W of the summit of Crockaughrim in rough mountainous territory. 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

• DG010-039 Souterrain
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Oratory of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1940–1960
  Description

  Detached three-bay gable-fronted Catholic church, built c. 1950, having eight-bay side elevations (north and south), central gable-fronted single-bay single-storey entrance porch to the entrance gable (east), single-bay single-storey gable-fronted entrance porch to the north elevation, and with rendered round-headed bellcote to the west gable end. Pitched natural slate roof with clay ware ridge tiles, rendered cross finial to front gable, raised ended gable copings to east and west with rendered skew blocks to eaves, bellcote to west gable, and with cast-iron skylight over altar. Raised rendered gable copings to entrance porches. Smooth rendered walls over projecting plinth. Round-headed windows to side elevation shaving painted sills, leaded coloured glass with bottom hung inward-opening lights in timber sub-frames, and with render hoodmouldings over. Square-headed door opening with render hoodmouldings over, and with battened timber door and double-doors. Timber wainscoting to sill level to interior with timber pews. Set within own grounds incorporating car parking, detached boiler house to rear with monopitch corrugated-metal roof, painted render to walls. Garden and modern stone walls to east of site.

• Bridge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump-backed railway bridge, built c. 1901, carrying small road over the former Buncrana to Carndonagh section of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway line. Railway line now out of use with tracks removed (c. 1935); side elevations now largely covered in vegetation. Now also in use as an agricultural shed with corrugated-metal shed added to the south side. Round-headed arch with red brick voussoirs to arch; squared and coursed rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Snecked and squared mildly rock-faced stone construction to spandrels, abutments and to parapets with dressed stone coping over parapets. Snecked and squared rubble stone wing walls to either side of arch, along sides of former railway cutting, having coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the north-west of Clonmany.

• Ballyliffin Railway Station, railway station, 1890–1910
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built c. 1900, with attached two-bay single-storey former waiting room to west side. Now in use as a private house. Pitched natural slate roof with pierced decorative clay ridge comb tiles, red brick chimneystacks with bracketed cornice and clay pots to gable ends, cast-iron rainwater goods over painted timber bargeboards. Squared and rough dressed limestone walls, yellow brick block-and-start quoins, yellow brick stringcourse over openings at ground and first floor levels with continuous raised terracotta hoodmoulding over, projecting plinth with yellow brick capping. Square-headed window openings, yellow brick flat arches and raised plaster continuous hoodmoulding over, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds over painted cut stone sills, timber two-over-two pane horned timber sliding sash windows. Central square-headed door opening, yellow brick flat arch and raised plaster continuous hoodmoulding over, yellow brick block-and-start surrounds, timber panelled door with toplight over. Set in own grounds, modern boundary walls and gate piers, single-bay, single-storey goods shed to the north-east, pitched slate, roughly dressed uncoursed limestone walls, ashlar block-and-start quoins.

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 Ballyliffin, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2034 (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.

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

Name

Ballyliffin · Baile Lifín

Area

2,391,106 m² (239.11 ha, 590.86 acres)

Civil parish

Clonmany, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen East

Electoral division

Ballyliffin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,529 people lived in 493 households in the Ballyliffin electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ardagh, Ballymacmoriarty, Clehagh, Cloontagh, Tullynabratilly

Placenames

Ballyliffin 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.