Ballymacavany

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacavany, from 26 m² to 493,356 m² (49.34 ha, 121.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballymacavany 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymacavany in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301
• Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Donegal) SPA 004057
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg (Donegal) 000162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacavany.

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Ominey River, built c. 1860, having V-profile stone cutwater to central pier. Round-headed arches having rock-faced stone voussoirs with drafted margins; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrels. Squared rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments; squared rubble stone parapets having rock-faced coping over. Squared rubble stone wing walls to either side. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located to north of Pettigoe, and to the south-east of Station Island, Lough Derg.

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 Ballymacavany, about 1 in 20 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacavany

Area

2,640,070 m² (264.01 ha, 652.38 acres)

Civil parish

Templecarn, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Pettigoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

368 people lived in 170 households in the Pettigoe electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 19% of homes were built since 2001. 19% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carn, Crocknacunny, Tawlaght

Placenames

Ballymacavany 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.