# Ballymoney, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Burt, barony of Inishowen West, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile Móna.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,547,734 m² (154.77 ha, 382.45 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 130,322 m² (13.03 ha, 32.2 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Burt, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/burt.md
- Barony: Inishowen West
- Electoral division: Burt, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Burt electoral division: 1,333 people in 494 households; 78% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15085
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50256
- Centre: latitude 55.035278, longitude -7.507332 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymoney, from 470 m² to 398,633 m² (39.86 ha, 98.5 acres); 6 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1321653: 398,633 m² (39.86 ha, 98.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1321653.md
- Parcel 1330484: 345,648 m² (34.56 ha, 85.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330484.md
- Parcel 1315316: 289,169 m² (28.92 ha, 71.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1315316.md
- Parcel 1388940: 247,337 m² (24.73 ha, 61.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1388940.md
- Parcel 1335876: 186,040 m² (18.6 ha, 45.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1335876.md
- Parcel 1426842: 74,603 m² (7.46 ha, 18.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426842.md
- Parcel 1387001: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1387001.md
- Parcel 1361870: 2,055 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361870.md
- Parcel 1305599: 1,821 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305599.md
- Parcel 1352719: 470 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1352719.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymoney 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 19 Jun 2026, Donegal County Council 2650087: Unconditional. Extension of duration, 1 home. ERECTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, (2) MILKING PARLOUR WITH HOLDING PEN AND ATTACHED SLATTED CATTLE SHED, (3) SILAGE PITS, (4) FEED SILO AND (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650087/0
- 6 Aug 2019, Donegal County Council 1951192: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF (1) DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK, (2) MILKING PARLOUR WITH HOLDING PEN AND ATTACHED SLATTED CATTLE SHED, (3) SILAGE PITS (4) FEED SILO, (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/1951192/0

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## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Swilly SAC, site code 002287, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002287
- Special Protection Area: Lough Swilly SPA, site code 004075, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004075
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Swilly Including Big Isle, Blanket Nook & Inch Lake, site code 000166

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- DG046-008: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-008----. No trace of the single-ringed circular 'Fort' marked on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch maps is visible. It was situated on good open ground sloping to Lough Swilly. 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: 22 September 2008
- DG046-009: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-009----. The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map notes a 'Standing Stone' here. The 3rd edition marks it as 'Standing Stone (site of)'. There are no visible remains. Situated on arable land close to the shore of Lough Swilly. 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: 22 September 2008
- DG046-035: Midden, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG046-035----. 'At this site an intermittent layer of shells had been noted to be eroding on the cliff face. This layer was usually 0.2-0.4m thick and extended for approximately 80m in length. Shells were also observed on the surface of the field to the south of the cliff-face exposure, about 140m south of the beginning of the midden. Test-pits were placed in the field to establish the extent of the midden. At Point (0) on the main baseline it was established that the midden did not exist but that there was a layer of dark soil present. At 28.5m three test-pits running in from the cliff edge showed that the midden extended for some 10m from the cliff edge but, while the dark soil could be found further away from the cliff edge, the midden itself did not extend as far as 15m from the cliff face. At 100m and 130m to the south test-pits revealed further evidence of the presence of midden, while no evidence was found at 150m.' (Excavation licence number 01E0840; Excavations Bulletin 2001). A radio-carbon determination of 6065 +/- 60 bp (calibrated date range 4800-4500 BC) was recovered from oyster shell at this midden (Milner & Woodman 2007, 104-6, No. 10). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 05 July 2012

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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: 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: Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1920, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1920.zip (ZIP).
- 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/ballymoney.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymoney.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballymoney.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballymoney 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)

- Carrowen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/carrowen.md
- Grange: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grange-51453.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.

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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/ballymoney
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballymoney