Ballyloughan

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughan, from 22 m² to 212,591 m² (21.26 ha, 52.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballyloughan 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.

• 8 Jul 2026N/a

  A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FOR PROPOSED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO THE PERMITTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 (REF. NO. PA16.316178). THE TURBINE DELIVERY ROUTE (TDR) WILL ORIGINATE AT THE PORT OF ENTRY AT KILLYBEGS HARBOUR, CO. DONEGAL, RUN THROUGH CO. SLIGO, CO. LEITRIM AND TERMINATE AT THE CONSENTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 SITE, CO. MAYO. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TDR IS C.188KM OF WHICH C.65KM IS WITHIN CO. DONEGAL, C.57KM IN CO. SLIGO, AND C.36KM IN CO. MAYO. MINOR TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WORKS ARE NOT PROPOSED ALONG THIS ENTIRE ROUTE BUT ONLY AT SELECT LOCATIONS. THE TOTAL AREA REQUIRED FOR THE WORKS IN CO. DONEGAL IS C.0.2HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CO. DONEGAL COMPRISES MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF KILLYBEGS, GLEBE, AGHAYEEVOGE, CASHELREAGH GLEBE, BRUCKLESS, AIGHAN, BRUCKLESS AND DARNEY. THESE WORKS ARE REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE DELIVERY OF ABNORMAL INDIVISIBLE LOADS (AIL) AND WILL CONSIST OF (1) LAYING OF TEMPORARY LOAD BEARING SURFACE AT 5 NO. LOCATIONS, (2) TEMPORARY FENCE REMOVAL, TEMPORARY REMOVAL AND RELOCATION OF LIGHTS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (3) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF BOLLARD AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (4) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF GATE, WALL AND CHEVRONS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (5) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF ROAD SIGNALS, BOLLARDS, LIGHTING COLUMNS, WALL AND FENCE AT 1 NO. LOCATION AS WELL AS HEDGEROW AND TREE TRIMMING, (6) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF FENCE AND VEGETATION AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (7) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF HEDGEROWS, FENCE AND WALL AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (8) REINSTATEMENT OF ALL TEMPORARY WORKS AREAS TO PREVIOUS CONDITION AND (10) ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSED TDR. SEPARATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE MADE TO BOTH SLIGO AND MAYO COUNTY COUNCILS IN RESPECT OF WORKS REQUIRED AT LOCATIONS WITHIN EACH COUNTY BOUNDS. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN SLIGO ARE PROPOSED AT CARROWNACREEVY, TANREGO WEST, ABBEYTOWN, CORHAWNAGH AND CARRICKNAGAT. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CARRICKNAGAT. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN MAYO ARE PROPOSED AT LECARROW, CROSSMOLINA, ABBEYTOWN, KNOCKALEGAN, GLEBE, GORTSKEDDIA, BALLINA, ABBEYHALFQUARTER, KNOCKNALYRE AND BUNREE. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CROSSMOLINA. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (AASR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661265

• 30 Jun 2026N/a

  PROPOSED WORKS TO FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF TURBINE COMPONENTS TO THE PERMITTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 (REF. NO. PA16.316178). THE TURBINE DELIVERY ROUTE (TDR) WILL ORIGINATE AT THE PORT OF ENTRY AT KILLYBEGS HARBOUR, CO. DONEGAL, RUN THROUGH CO. SLIGO, CO. LEITRIM AND TERMINATE AT THE CONSENTED OWENINNY WIND FARM PHASE 3 SITE, CO. MAYO. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TDR IS C.188KM OF WHICH C.65KM IS WITHIN CO. DONEGAL, C.57KM IN CO. SLIGO, AND C.36KM IN CO. MAYO. MINOR TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT WORKS ARE NOT PROPOSED ALONG THIS ENTIRE ROUTE BUT ONLY AT SELECT LOCATIONS. THE TOTAL AREA REQUIRED FOR THE WORKS IN CO. DONEGAL IS C.0.2HA. THE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CO. DONEGAL COMPRISES MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN THE TOWNLANDS OF KILLYBEGS, GLEBE, AGHAYEEVOGE, CASHELREAGH GLEBE, BRUCKLESS, AIGHAN, BRUCKLESS AND DARNEY. THESE WORKS ARE REQUIRED TO ACCOMMODATE DELIVERY OF ABNORMAL INDIVISIBLE LOADS (AIL) AND WILL CONSIST OF (1) LAYING OF TEMPORARY LOAD BEARING SURFACE AT 5 NO. LOCATIONS, (2) TEMPORARY FENCE REMOVAL, TEMPORARY REMOVAL AND RELOCATION OF LIGHTS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (3) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF BOLLARD AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (4) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF GATE, WALL AND CHEVRONS AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (5) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF ROAD SIGNALS, BOLLARDS, LIGHTING COLUMNS, WALL AND FENCE AT 1 NO. LOCATION AS WELL AS HEDGEROW AND TREE TRIMMING, (6) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF FENCE AND VEGETATION AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (7) TEMPORARY REMOVAL OF HEDGEROWS, FENCE AND WALL AT 1 NO. LOCATION, (8) REINSTATEMENT OF ALL TEMPORARY WORKS AREAS TO PREVIOUS CONDITION AND (10) ALL ASSOCIATED AND ANCILLARY WORKS REQUIRED FOR THE PROPOSED TDR. PERMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS AND SEPARATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE MADE TO BOTH SLIGO AND MAYO COUNTY COUNCILS IN RESPECT OF WORKS REQUIRED AT LOCATIONS WITHIN EACH COUNTY BOUNDS. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN SLIGO ARE PROPOSED AT CARROWNACREEVY, TANREGO WEST, ABBEYTOWN, CORHAWNAGH AND CARRICKNAGAT. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CARRICKNAGAT. MINOR TEMPORARY WORKS IN MAYO ARE PROPOSED AT LECARROW, CROSSMOLINA, ABBEYTOWN, KNOCKALEGAN, GLEBE, GORTSKEDDIA, BALLINA, ABBEYHALFQUARTER, KNOCKNALYRE AND BUNREE. PERMANENT WORKS ARE PROPOSED AT CROSSMOLINA. AN APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SCREENING REPORT (AASR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANY THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661202

• 30 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF (A) 2NO. DOMESTIC GARAGES ADJACENT TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (B) STONEER CLADDING TO THE NORTHEAST ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SOUTHWEST ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING, (3) ALTERATION OF EXISTING DWELLING TO THE NORTHEAST ELEVATION AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SERVICES

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660524

• 4 Jul 2025Conditional

  (1) RENOVATION OF EXISTING SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF THE HOUSE, (2) INSTALLATION OF NEW ON SITE PROPRIETARY SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (3) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING GARAGE AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561141

• 5 Oct 2022N/a

  DEVELOPMENT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE NUMBERS 03/1080, 08/20133 AND 10/20376 (1) COMPLETION OF (A) 10 NO SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES INCLUDING AMENDMENTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION TO EACH DWELLING HOUSE DESIGN (B) SERVICE ROAD, FOOTPATHS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251678

• 31 Aug 2022N/a

  (1) COMPLETION OF 10 NO. SEMI-DETACHED DWELLING HOUSES INCLUDING AMENDMENTS TO THE FRONT ELEVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REAR EXTENSION TO EACH DWELLING HOUSE DESIGN (2) UPGRADING OF EXISTING ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEM (3) COMPLETION OF SERVICE ROAD, FOOTPATHS AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 10 homes · Donegal County Council, 2251466

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND 1 WINDOW AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL ON THE NORTH-EAST GABLE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851606

• 23 Aug 2018N/a

  DOMESTIC GARAGE AND 1 WINDOW AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL ON THE NORTH-EAST GABLE OF THE DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851322

• 20 Oct 2017Conditional

  COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING FROM SUBFLOOR LEVEL PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 05/433 & 10/20465

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1751585

• 26 May 2017Conditional

  SITE EXCAVATION AND LEVELLING WORKS TO THE REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE AND PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE AND STORE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1750818

• 28 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, NEW ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750281

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 Ballyloughan.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyloughan.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyloughan House, house, 1850–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay two-storey house, built c. 1860 and extended c. 1905, having full-height two-bay projection/breakfront to the centre of the south-west elevation flanked to either side by single-storey triple-light box-bay windows. Full-height gable-fronted single-bay projection and single-storey canted-bay window opening to the south-east elevation. Extended to the rear with two-storey extension and single-storey garage extension. Hipped artificial slate roofs having projecting eaves course, and smooth-rendered chimneystacks with stepped coping over. Paired chimneystacks to the centre of the main elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof to gabled projection to the south-east elevation. Smooth-rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and with ten-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Moulded cornices over box-bay and canted-bay windows. Square-headed door opening to the south-east side of central projection to the south-west elevation having timber panelled door with overlight. Set well back from road in extensive mature grounds with well-maintained ornamental gardens to site, planted c. 1905. Located close to the shores of McSwyne’s Bay, and to the east of Killybegs and the west of Dunkineely. Gateway to the north-west having a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan).

• Bridge, 1890–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arch railway bridge, built c. 1893, having rock-faced V-profile cutwaters to central piers. Originally built to carry the former Donegal Town to Killybegs narrow gauge railway line over the Oily River. Railway lines no out of use with tracks removed (c. 1960). Segmental-headed arches with rock-faced ashlar voussoirs having dressed margins; squared and coursed rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Snecked and squared mildly rock-faced stone construction to spandrels, abutments and to parapets with rock-faced coping over parapets. Side elevations now covered with ivy; deck now overgrown with vegetation. Located to the north-west of Dunkineely and to the east of Killybegs. Located just to the north of where the Oily River discharges into McSwyne’s Bay.

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_1158 (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.

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

Name

Ballyloughan · Baile an Locháin

Area

1,706,881 m² (170.69 ha, 421.78 acres)

Civil parish

Killaghtee, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Killybegs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killybegs electoral division: 2,333 people in 880 households; 76% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aighan, Binroe, Bruckless, Carn Beg Glebe, Carn More Glebe, Cashelreagh Glebe, Tawnasligo

Placenames

Ballyloughan 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.