Ballymore Lower

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore Lower, from 33 m² to 298,916 m² (29.89 ha, 73.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymore Lower 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.

• 18 Feb 2026N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660238

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561565

• 10 Sept 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561556

• 30 May 2025Conditional

  FOUL EFFLUENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED DEVELOPMENT WORKS SERVICING DWELLING HOUSE APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 18/51043

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560893

• 6 Aug 2024Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DEFECTIVE BLOCKWORK DWELLING AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461204

• 7 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460110

• 20 Dec 2023Conditional

  (1) EXISTING TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME WITH GROUND WORKS AND ACCESS ROAD AND (2) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WHICH WILL BE USED TO SERVE THE PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351957

• 1 Dec 2023N/a

  (1) EXISTING TEMPORARY MOBILE HOME WITH GROUND WORKS AND ACCESS ROAD, (2) EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM WHICH WILL BE USED TO SERVE THE PROPOSED NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR: (3) ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351850

• 29 May 2023Unconditional

  (1) RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PROVISION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350742

• 29 May 2023Unconditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2350743

• 11 Apr 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250619

• 23 Feb 2022Conditional

  (1) CARRYING OUT NECESSARY ALTERATIONS & ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FOR CREATION OF INDEPENDENT LIVING ACCOMMODATION (2) ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF MAIN DWELLING HOUSE (3) UPGRADING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250309

• 9 Feb 2022N/a

  ERECTION OF 2 EXTENSIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO EXTEND EXISTING LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND TO CREATE ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO EXISTING DWELLING, WITH THE UPGRADE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2250202

• 28 Jul 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151508

• 26 Mar 2021N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150536

• 14 Oct 2020Conditional

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051509

• 31 Jul 2020N/a

  DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051046

• 8 Jul 2020N/a

  EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050894

• 11 Dec 2019Conditional

  MOBILE HOME & SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING AND ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951929

• 26 Nov 2018Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND (2) DECOMMISSIONING OF THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND PROVISION OF A REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851791

• 6 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK/SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851043

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF:08/30181 (EXTENSION OF DURATION REF: 12/50768 AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1850542

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PLAYGROUND AUXILIARY TO THE EXISTING NATIONAL SCHOOL WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850362

• 29 Mar 2017Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750472

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: Sheephaven SAC 001190
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Sheephaven 001190

Recorded monuments

• DG026-003 Megalithic tomb - unclassified
  Description

  The monument, on a slight rise amid pasture, lies just W of the road between Dunfanaghy and Creeslough and is c. 700m NW of Back Strand at the inner reaches of Sheep Haven Bay. There is an extensive outlook along a river valley to the SW as far as Muckish Mountain c. 6km away. The monument is greatly ruined, and the scant remains are difficult to interpret but seem to represent a chamber or gallery aligned NE-SW. It is described as if it lay E-W. The tallest stone, 1.6m high, is at the NE. Immediately S of the W end of this and at right angles to it is a set stone, 0.15m high. This may be the butt of a taller stone. A slab, 0.9m by 0.55m by 0.lm thick, leaning against the tall stone does not seem to be in situ. Two more set stones stand 1.5m SW of the group just described. Both lie E-W. The eastern one is 0.2m high, and the western one, overlapping the W end of the eastern and 0.2m to the S, is 0.15m high. Both may be remnants of taller stones. A slab, 3.1m by 1.5m by 0.4m thick, overlies the eastern one. This slab leans southward and rests on a stone that itself may have collapsed northward. The latter is c. 1m long by 0.2m thick and if upright would be c. 0.75m high. There are no discernible traces of a mound around the structure. Accounts of the monument in OS documents from the middle of the 19th century indicate that it was then in much the same condition as now. The remains here are clearly those of a megalithic tomb but are insufficient to permit classification. Fagan 1845-8, book 2, 19; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 26 (1847-9), 9; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 44, no. 117; SMR 1987, 26:3; Ó Nualláin 1989, 142; RMP 1995, 26:3. The above description was published in the 'Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI, County Donegal.' Compiled by: Eamon Cody (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). Date of upload: 22 September 2008 See linked document with details from Eamon Cody, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume VI. County Donegal. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

• DG026-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 45m NNW-SSE, c. 23m ENE-WSW. An oval area enclosed by a collapsed stone wall up to 1m in height and originally 1.95m wide. Externally to the E and Ware sharp drops. Internally on the W side is a 4m square structure of collapsed stone walls now 3m wide. There is a gap in this collapse at the SE corner. Just N of this structure a slab 1.7m long projects out of the ground. The site is located on a NE-SW hill overlooking the Back Strand, in rough pasture and in a commanding position. 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

• DG026-005001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. c. 20m N-S, c. 14m E-W. The enclosed area was approximately oval in plan. The wall is now traceable from NW to just E of S. On the, W it is built along the top edge of a rocky platform and is c. 2.5m in width and no more than .5m high. Just E of S a stone set transversely to the line of the wall may mark the W side of the cashel entrance. A gap 1m wide is visible here. A modern field wall now runs along the E side close to the top of the steep edged rocky platform. A 'hut'(DG026-005002-)is indicated by a low grassed-over stone wall not exceeding .3m in height 2m to 3m in width, at the centre. The site is on an elevated platform of rock towards the E end of an E-W ridge which overlooks the Back Strand, of Sheephaven Bay. There is extensive rock outcrop and rough grazing about the site and good land at lower levels to the N. 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

• DG026-005002 Hut site
  Description

  The enclosed area was approximately oval in plan (DG026-005001-). The wall is now traceable from NW to just E of S. On the, W it is built along the top edge of a rocky platform and is c. 2.5m in width and no more than .5m high. Just E of S a stone set transversely to the line of the wall may mark the W side of the cashel entrance. A gap 1m wide is visible here. A modern field wall now runs along the E side close to the top of the steep edged rocky platform. A 'hut' is indicated by a low grassed-over stone wall not exceeding .3m in height 2m to 3m in width, at the centre. The site is on an elevated platform of rock towards the E end of an E-W ridge which overlooks the Back Strand, of Sheephaven Bay. There is extensive rock outcrop and rough grazing about the site and good land at lower levels to the N. 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

• DG026-007 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Part of a collapsed stone wall survives along the edge of a flat-topped rocky platform which measures c. 25m E-W and c. 13m N-S. The monument seems to have been sub-rectangular in plan, the walls being straight sided with curved ends. The collapse along the N side is c. 2m wide and 0.5m-1m high. On the W it is of like height and up to 4m wide. A few scattered, moss-covered stones mark the line of the wall on the E but there is no trace of it on the S. A 1m gap on the N side gives access to a relatively gentle slope from the top of the platform. The site is now part of Ards Forest Park. There is much rock outcrop about and to the E and S low-lying wettish land along the W extremity of the Back Strand of Sheephaven Bay. 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

Architectural heritage

• Saint John's Church (Clondahorky), church/chapel, 1750–1855 · National interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, dated 1752, having four-bay nave with bellcote to west gable, Venetian window to east and west gables, porch addition to west with lower and shorter lean-to section added, and gabled vestry of c.1853 to northeast. Pitched artificial slate roof with rendered copings, curved kneeler stones, cavetto-moulded eaves course and replacement aluminium rainwater goods. Cut-stone bellcote with string courses, ovolo cornice and round-headed opening housing cast-iron bell. Pitched slate roof to vestry, with octagonal cut-stone chimneystack to apex. Hipped slate roof to addition, with raised eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls with raised quoins and having plinth course with buttress to north wall. Round-headed window openings to south wall of nave, none to north wall, with raised cut-stone Gibbsian surrounds, stone sills and eight-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows without horns. Venetian window to east gable has twenty-four-over-twenty-four pane timber sliding sash window flanked by nine-over-nine pane windows with Gibbsian jambs supporting entablature, moulded cornice and Gibbsian fanlight with triple keystone. West gable has replacement timber windows within cut-stone surrounds with projecting keystone. Vestry has round-headed window openings, single to west wall and double to west, with cut-stone surrounds, integral sills and cast-iron lattice windows. Square-headed doorways to porch, north wall having plain opening, and south wall having moulded surround, projecting keystone and timber battened double-leaf door. Elliptical-headed doorway to west wall of vestry, with chamfered surround and timber door with steps. Church set within graveyard with rubble stone boundary wall, curved-plan entrance having lined-and-ruled square-plan piers to south, with decorative wrought-iron double-leaf vehicular gate. School building to northwest with hipped slate roof.

• Ards House, tunnel, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Tunnel, built c.1860, leading from Ards House, having cut-stone ashlar piers to south end with string course to springer, and projecting cut-stone voussoirs with keystone. Reinforced concrete lintel to north elevation, with rubble stone walling over. Rusticated intrados to tunnel soffit. Set at angle to road, opposite Saint John's Church of Ireland church, with rusticated boundary retaining walls flanking to south, and having round-headed opening with metal gate to east.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymore Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballymore Lower · An Baile Mór Íochtarach

Area

1,400,970 m² (140.1 ha, 346.19 acres)

Civil parish

Clondahorky, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Ards, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ards electoral division: 805 people in 270 households; 86% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 61% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore Upper, Cashelmore, Clonmass, Derryart, Faugher, Knocknafaugher

Placenames

Ballymore Lower 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.