Ballymacahil

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacahil, from 50 m² to 104,834 m² (10.48 ha, 25.91 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 Ballymacahil 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.

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF AN EXISTING SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES, (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, (4) RELOCATION OF DOMESTIC ENTRANCE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660385

• 20 Feb 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1 & ½ STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE, WITH A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, IN LIEU OF THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (PLANNING REF. NO. 21/52410 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560217

• 3 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1&1/2 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152410

• 1 Dec 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO EXISITNG DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALTERATIONS TO ALL FACADES, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2152395

• 5 Nov 2021N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 1 & 1/2 STOREY DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH A VEHICULAR ENTRANCE ONTO THE ADJOINING PUBLIC ROAD AND INSTALLATION OF A SEWERAGE TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152187

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 Ballymacahil.

Recorded monuments

• DG092-023 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Spring well on the WSW side of a modern NNE-SSW laneway. The ENE half is defined by a very low wall with two concrete steps leading down to the water level. On the WSW side is a substantial, two-storey, approximately rectangular structure. At the basal level is a wooden door. The lower half of the door is absent. However in front of the opening is a large ladle, presumably used for pilgrims to take holy water from the well. The upper portion of the doorway is occupied by a Latin cross. The upper level of this structure is a relatively large rectangular chamber. The NNE, SSW and WSW sides and the roof are each built of single concrete slabs. The ENE side is open. Within the chamber is a statue of the Virgin Mary within a rectangular setting, the base and sides of which contain numerous votive offerings. Above this is a triangular plaque containing the following inscription: 'To prevent any understanding in connection with the Holy Well at Ballymacahill when I am gone, I hearby declare that I have blessed it on Sunday, October 3rd 1909 and dedicated it to Our Lady of the Rosary Fifteen Decades are the prayers prescribed Signed: Rev. Charles Gallagher, Killian Dated: 19th Day of August, 1944.' On the ENE side of the laneway is a wooden pew. Attached images (taken on 13th October 2013): DG092-023----_01.JPG Holy well viewed from SSW DG092-023----_02.JPG Holy well viewed from E. DG092-023----_03.JPG Upper part of well structure DG092-023----_04.JPG Opening to waters of spring at base of well structure Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 18 October 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymacahil.

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 20 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymacahil.

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 Ballymacahil with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballymacahil

Area

1,541,793 m² (154.18 ha, 380.99 acres)

Civil parish

Inver, and its townlands

Barony

Banagh

Electoral division

Bonnyglen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bonnyglen electoral division: 387 people in 142 households; 87% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 17% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumnacarry, Gargrim, Killin, Meenagran, Tullycumber

Placenames

Ballymacahil 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.