# Ballymaquin, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Mhic Cuinn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 750,077 m² (75.01 ha, 185.35 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Gartan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/gartan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Church Hill, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 400 people lived in 141 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15461 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50253 - Centre: latitude 54.985345, longitude -7.923585 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaquin, from 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 443,694 m² (44.37 ha, 109.64 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1346711: 443,694 m² (44.37 ha, 109.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1346711.md - Parcel 1301635: 3,272 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301635.md - Parcel 1357672: 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357672.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymaquin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballymaquin in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA, site code 004039, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004039 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Akibbon And Gartan Lough, site code 000158 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG052-003: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG052-003----. The site of this holy well has been forested. It was dedicated to St. Colmcille. 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/revision: 02 November 2011 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Saint Colmcille's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1860, Regional interest, registry number 40905211, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=DG®no=40905211. Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1830, having four-bay nave, gabled porch of c.1850, sacristy to northeast and later gabled sacristy and boiler house to southwest. Renovated c.2005. Pitched replacement slate roof on eaves course, having rendered copings and kneeler stones, cross finials to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched replacement slate roof to projections, sacristy having roughcast-rendered chimneystack. Roughcast-rendered and painted walls with smooth plinth course. Pointed-arch openings with raised render surrounds, hood-mouldings, concrete sills and replacement double-light Y-tracery six-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; similar single three-over-six pane windows to projections. Double-leaf replacement timber battened door to porch with traceried fanlight, within recessed pointed-arch raised render surround, having small Celtic cross plaque inscribed '1851 St Colmcille's 2005'. Interior has timber board ceiling, exposed timber queen-post roof, timber pews, grey marble altar, timber panelled balustrade to gallery and carved Stations of the Cross. Rendered boundary wall to southeast with concrete coping, replacement square-plan rubble piers and decorative cast-iron gate with shamrock emblems. Set on elevated site, with Marian grotto to northwest and car park to east. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballymaquin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballymaquin. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymaquin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymaquin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymaquin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymaquin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardaturr: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ardaturr.md - Claggan South: https://everytownland.com/donegal/claggan-south.md - Crockraw: https://everytownland.com/donegal/crockraw.md - Curraghavogy: https://everytownland.com/donegal/curraghavogy.md - Drumnalifferny: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumnalifferny.md - Staghall: https://everytownland.com/donegal/staghall.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymaquin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballymaquin