Ballynacraig

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacraig, from 541 m² to 818,861 m² (81.89 ha, 202.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballynacraig 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND ERECTION OF A 5 BAY AGRICULTURAL SHED AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2562261

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A REDESIGNED COMMERCIAL GARAGE WITH OFFICE AND STORAGE AREA GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 21/50456 AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561118

• 15 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) ENTRANCE, ACCESS ROAD AND YARD AREA (2) COMMERCIAL GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL GARAGE WITH CANOPY FOR STORAGE, WEIGHBRIDGE, ONSITE CARPARKING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150456

• 11 Jul 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851067

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 Ballynacraig.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacraig.

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynacraig · Baile na Creige

Area

1,399,224 m² (139.92 ha, 345.76 acres)

Civil parish

Tullaghobegly, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Gortahork, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gortahork electoral division: 1,693 people in 667 households; 83% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 21% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ards Beg, Ardsmore Mountain, Beltany Lower, Cashel, Keeldrum Lower, Keeldrum Upper

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballynacraig 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.