Ballylin
Ballylin is a townland in the civil parish of Aughnish, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Fhloinn.
- Area
- 188.2 ha
- 465 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,559 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 18
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylin, from 115 m² to 217,387 m² (21.74 ha, 53.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballylin 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Apr 2025Conditional
(1) 6 NO. LOG CABIN STYLE UNITS AS CONSTRUCTED AND WHICH DEVIATE FROM THE AS GRANTED PERMISSION OF PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51627, (2) REED BED SYSTEM WHICH IS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH THE EFFLUENT GENERATED ON SITE AND (3) ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560533
2 Aug 2024Refused
(1) 6 NO. LOG CABIN STYLE UNITS AS CONSTRUCTED WHICH DEVIATE FROM THE AS GRANTED PERMISSION OF REF. NO. 20/51627, (2) REED BED SYSTEM WHICH IS IN PLACE TO DEAL WITH THE EFFLUENT GENERATED ON SITE AND (3) ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461190
8 May 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF 260M2 OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR PANELS AT GROUND LEVEL AT THE REAR OF THE OAKWELL HOLIDAY VILLAGE SITE AND ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350619
20 Jan 2023Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350049
11 Jan 2023Refused
RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF DEVELOPMENT GRANTED UNDER REF. NO. 20/51627 CONSISTING OF (1) LOG CABIN STYLE UNITS, 3 OF WHICH HAVE CURVED ROOFS INSTEAD OF PITCHED ROOFING PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 20/51627 (2) COMPLETION OF DEVELOPMENT AS PER REF. NO. 20/51627 INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF (A) A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AS STATED IN CONDITION 16 (B) INSTALLATION OF 120SQM POLISHING FILTER AND ALL WORKS AS PER SUB HEADINGS OF CONDITION NO.17 OF PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 20/51627 AND ALL ANCILLIARY SERVICES RELATING TO SAME
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350016
30 Nov 2022Conditional
CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FOR DWELLING HOUSE PREVIOUSLY PERMITTED UNDER PLAN. REG. REF. NO. 21/52022
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251919
2 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251305
11 May 2022Conditional
(1) DEMOLITION OF A SMALL FRONT PORCH AND REAR OUT-SHOT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT PORCH AND GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) CONVERSION FROM SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TO STOREY AND HALF DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED INCREASED ROOF HEIGHT WITH DORMER WINDOWS, INCLUDING LIVING ROOM ACCOMMODATION TO FIRST FLOOR AREA ABOVE NEW GROUND FLOOR EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND (4) MULTIPLE ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO FACILITATE ADDITIONAL DOORS AND WINDOWS AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2250814
12 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152022
19 Jul 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151434
9 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150624
2 Nov 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF 6 ADDITIONAL TIMBER LOG CABIN STYLE ACCOMMODATION UNITS TO THE OAKWELL HOLIDAY VILLAGE, CHILDRENS PLAY AND ADULT SEATING AREAS, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, EXTENSION TO EXISTING PERCOLATION AREA AND ANCILLARY SITE SERVICES
Permission, 6 homes · Donegal County Council, 2051627
13 Jan 2020Unconditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING GARAGE TO PROVIDE DOMESTIC STUDIO AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050016
18 Nov 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951782
17 Sept 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM & ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951427
13 Feb 2019Conditional
(1) RETENTION OF A STRAW STORAGE AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX AND (2) DEMOLITION OF AN OUTHOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL DRY BEDDED/SLATTED CALF SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF AN EXISTING STRAW STORAGE SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS WITHIN THE EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1950178
13 Oct 2017Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING EXTENDING TO INTERNAL RECONFIGURATION & ELEVATIONAL CHANGES; (2) TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING; (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK & PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) NEW ENTRANCE ON TO PUBLIC ROAD
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751564
2 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF RURAL TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING, PLANNING, COMMUNITY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (LEADER) 2014-2020, THEME 1; COMPRISING COMMUNAL KITCHEN/DINING AREA IN CONVERTED STONE BUILDING, TIMBER FRAME COMMUNAL SHOWER/SERVICES BLOCK, 6 BEDROOM & 2 NO. 2 BEDROOM TIMBER FRAME BLOCKS, 2 BEDROOM BLOCK IN CONVERTED STONE BUILDING, 2 NO. SHEPHERD HUT ACCOMMODATION UNITS, SPA RECEPTION UNIT, STAND-ALONE HOT TUB, SAUNA BLOCK AND 4 NO. DESIGNATED SINGLE TENT CAMPING AREAS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750863
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC 002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA 004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake 000166
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballylin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylin.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballylin, about 1 in 10 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballylin.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballylin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballylin · Baile Uí Fhloinn
- Area
- 1,882,188 m² (188.22 ha, 465.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughnish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Rathmelton, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,494 people lived in 938 households in the Rathmelton electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aughnish, Ballygreen, Farnagh, Gortaway
- Placenames
- Ballylin 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.