Ballymichael
Ballymichael is a townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhicheáil.
- Area
- 73.4 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 9,450 m² (0.94 ha, 2.34 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymichael, from 52 m² to 127,274 m² (12.73 ha, 31.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballymichael 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 Jun 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A PROPOSED SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING HOUSE AND (B) A NEW BAY WINDOW WITH CANOPY PORCH TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, (2) GENERAL AMENDMENTS TO SELECTED WINDOWS AND DOORS EXTERNALLY THROUGHOUT THE HOUSE WHICH INCLUDES NEW REPLACEMENT WINDOWS AND (3) INTERNAL RENOVATION WORKS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560954
13 Jan 2025Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE FRONT AND REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING AND (2) RENOVATION WORKS AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560015
18 Jun 2024Conditional
EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460912
17 Apr 2018Conditional
2 NO. EXTENSIONS TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1850581
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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymichael.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymichael.
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 Ballymichael, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymichael.
- 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 Ballymichael with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymichael · Baile Mhicheáil
- Area
- 734,375 m² (73.44 ha, 181.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clondavaddog, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Fanad North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincrick and Ballynabrocky, Balloor, Ballynalost
- Gaeltacht
- In an Irish-speaking area
- Placenames
- Ballymichael 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.