# Ballymichael, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clondavaddog, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Mhicheáil. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 734,375 m² (73.44 ha, 181.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 9,450 m² (0.94 ha, 2.34 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clondavaddog, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/clondavaddog.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Fanad North, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15780 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50254 - Centre: latitude 55.268708, longitude -7.660267 (WGS 84) ## 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); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1394270: 127,274 m² (12.73 ha, 31.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1394270.md - Parcel 1376903: 109,176 m² (10.92 ha, 26.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376903.md - Parcel 1375257: 83,659 m² (8.37 ha, 20.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375257.md - Parcel 1382777: 56,673 m² (5.67 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1382777.md - Parcel 5307955: 53,648 m² (5.36 ha, 13.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5307955.md - Parcel 1422097: 49,758 m² (4.98 ha, 12.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1422097.md - Parcel 5891224: 47,109 m² (4.71 ha, 11.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891224.md - Parcel 1352416: 46,647 m² (4.66 ha, 11.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352416.md - Parcel 1427077: 33,822 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427077.md - Parcel 1305794: 29,585 m² (2.96 ha, 7.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305794.md - Parcel 1419380: 26,034 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1419380.md - Parcel 1415211: 18,084 m² (1.81 ha, 4.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1415211.md - Parcel 1403013: 16,719 m² (1.67 ha, 4.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1403013.md - Parcel 1424348: 9,450 m² (0.94 ha, 2.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424348.md - Parcel 1413143: 6,275 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1413143.md - Parcel 1417754: 4,888 m² (0.49 ha, 1.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417754.md - Parcel 4521692: 3,437 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4521692.md - Parcel 4730286: 2,444 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4730286.md - Parcel 4550175: 2,385 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4550175.md - Parcel 1332188: 1,418 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332188.md - Parcel 3658500: 1,353 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3658500.md - Parcel 5725840: 1,298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725840.md - Parcel 1393422: 1,021 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393422.md - Parcel 6091950: 911 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6091950.md - Parcel 5113654: 311 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5113654.md - Parcel 5891274: 92 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5891274.md - Parcel 5725841: 52 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5725841.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 9 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560954: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560954/0 - 13 Jan 2025, Donegal County Council 2560015: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560015/0 - 18 Jun 2024, Donegal County Council 2460912: Conditional. Permission. EXTENSION AND RENOVATION OF EXISTING COTTAGE INCLUDING INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460912/0 - 17 Apr 2018, Donegal County Council 1850581: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1850581/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC, site code 001975, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001975 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head, site code 001975 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymichael. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymichael. ## 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 Ballymichael, about 1 in 5 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 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 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/ballymichael.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymichael.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymichael.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballincrick and Ballynabrocky: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballincrick-and-ballynabrocky.md - Balloor: https://everytownland.com/donegal/balloor.md - Ballynalost: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballynalost.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/ballymichael - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballymichael