Ballymore Upper

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore Upper, from 9 m² to 152,381 m² (15.24 ha, 37.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Upper 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.

• 23 Jul 2025Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF NEW SEPTIC TANK TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561258

• 12 Sept 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 2151243

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461431

• 27 Aug 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN TO THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/51243

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461298

• 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

• 23 Jun 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151243

• 9 Jun 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151133

• 19 May 2021N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150963

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymore Upper.

Recorded monuments

• DG026-006 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument lies 1.15km SW of the last. It is on a slight rise 0.5km N of the Derryart River and 1.6km W of the inner reaches of Sheep Haven Bay. The land in the vicinity is under pasture, broken in places by rock outcrop, Muckish Mountain, 6km to the SW, dominates the outlook from the site. The monument, considerably disturbed, consists of the remains of a court at the E leading to a roofless gallery c. 8.5m long. Two field banks bordering a disused farm track, c. 3m or more wide, run NNW-SSE across the structure. The eastern bank, which is hedge grown, crosses the front of the gallery, and the western crosses it at around mid-length. The outline of a broad mound, narrowing toward the W, survives beyond the S side and W end of the gallery. This largely grass-grown mound measures 14m N-S by 14m E-W and rises to a maximum height of 2m relative to falling ground just W of the monument. One stone of the N arm of a broad court and four of the S arm survive in situ. That at the N flanks the front of the gallery and is 1m high. The outer three orthostats of the S arm form a curved line, and the fourth is skewed from this line so as to meet the front of the gallery. The skewed courtstone is 1.2m high. The adjoining courtstone, the back of which is concealed, is 0.45m high. The next is 0.8m high, and the outermost one is 1.3m high. Next to the last the track of a stone, perhaps another courtstone, was visible in 1952. Outside this end of the court is a displaced slab measuring 1.7m by l.1m by 0.3m thick. Another displaced slab lies 1.6m E of the northern courtstone. The entrance to the gallery is marked by two longitudinally set flat-topped jambs. These converge toward the E, where they are 0.9m apart. The southern one is 0.9m high, and the northern one is 1.25m high. The stone that now lies in front of them may be a displaced lintel. It is 1.7m long and l.1m thick. A large flat-topped sidestone overlaps the northern jamb. This leans inward and is 0.65m high. A corbel overlying both this and the adjoining jamb measures 1.7m by l.1m by 0.25m thick. Inside the W end of the sidestone is a leaning slab 1.2m long and c. a.2m thick, which may be a displaced sidestone or jamb. Almost 1m SE of this is an upright stone, 0.7m high. This is not firmly set in the ground and may not be in situ. The rear portion of the gallery is beyond the western field bank. An orthostat, 0.8m high, on the S side of the gallery protrudes from the fence. This may be a longitudinally set jamb or perhaps a sidestone. It supports the eastern end of a large corbel 2.6m long by l.1m in sloping height by 0.3m thick. The corbel may be somewhat displaced. Opposite this is another corbel, 2.6m long by at least 0.8m high by 0.3m thick. Beyond the corbels the back of the gallery is represented by two opposed sidestones and a flat-topped backstone. The northern sidestone is 0.3m in exposed height, and the southern one is 0.35m high. The backstone, 0.3m in exposed height, is set outside the end of the southern sidestone but inside the end of the northern one. Approximately 4.5m S of the front of the gallery is a large set stone close to the edge of the mound. It is 1.5m long and at least 0.25m thick and is exposed to a depth of 0.7m at its outer face. Approximately 4.5m to the W is another set stone, 0.9m long, 0.45m thick and 0.5m high. The status of both these stones is unclear, and neither is hatched on the plan. Immediately behind the back of the gallery a slab, 0.9m by at least 0.7m by at least 0.4m thick, protrudes above the surface of the mound. This does not appear to be in situ. Just 1m W of this is a prostrate slab, 0.9m by 0.5m by 0.35m thick. At right angles to the N of the gallery and flanking the western one of the two fences crossing the monument is a slab, 1.2m long, set on end. This is loose in the ground and does not appear to be in situ. Approximately 0.3m to the W of this is a displaced slab, 1.4m in maximum dimension. On a visit to the tomb in August 1991 Seán Ó Nualláin found that the rear of the gallery had been disturbed. He rescued two sherds of pottery that lay exposed under the northern of the two large corbels. One was a rim sherd of coarse ware, and the other was a body sherd of a separate vessel (Ó Nualláin 1990). It is clear from Fagan's account (1845-8) that the structure was then much as it is today. The original number of chambers is not known. Local information suggesting that there had been a full court here (de Valera 1960, 105) cannot be confirmed. Fagan 1845-8, book 2, 17; OS Revision Name Book, sheet 26 (1847-9), 7; de Valera 1960, 105, DG. 9 (plan); Killanin and Duignan 1967, 191; Ó Nualláin 1983a, 16, no. 4; SMR 1987, 26:6; Ó Nualláin 1989, 117; Ó Nualláin 1990; RMP 1995, 26:6. 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).

Architectural heritage

• The Manse, manse, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former manse, built c.1860, with porch to front and single-storey extension to northwest. Pitched slate roof with decorative clay ridge tiles, replacement aluminium rainwater goods, rendered chimneystacks with cornice copings, and paired corbelled brackets to overhanging eaves. Flat roof to porch with balcony having timber balustrades. Lean-to slate roof to extension. Smooth-rendered walls with projecting plinth and painted and raised quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render band with keystone, painted stone sills and some timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to first floor and six-over-six pane to ground, with some windows being replaced wtih uPVC. Round-headed doorway to northeast side of porch with moulded render band and keystone, glazed timber door and stone steps. Set on hillside with rubble stone wall to southwest, single-storey outbuildings to rear, landscaped gardens to front and mature trees to laneway to southeast with rendered boundary wall.

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 Upper.

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 Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballymore Upper · An Baile Mór Uachtarach

Area

648,152 m² (64.82 ha, 160.16 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 Lower, Derryart, Knocknafaugher, Swillybrin

Placenames

Ballymore Upper 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.