Ballynahone

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahone, from 123 m² to 272,655 m² (27.27 ha, 67.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballynahone 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.

• 6 Aug 2026Refused

  AN EXISTING SHORT-TERM LET USE, FOR AN EXISTING COTTAGE

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661471

• 13 Jul 2026Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2661286

• 10 Mar 2026Refused

  (1) RETENTION OF EXISTING SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660381

• 28 Jan 2026N/a

  (1) RETENTION OF SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND (2) ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660106

• 16 Oct 2025Conditional

  GARDEN ROOM AND MINOR ELEVATIONAL CHANGES TO DETACHED GARAGE AND PERMISSION FOR (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE BLOCKS (PLANNING REF. NO. 99/5133 REFERS) AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561812

• 7 Oct 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 11/70037) DUE TO DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO THE EXISTING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561741

• 23 Sept 2025Conditional

  (A) ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE-WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (B) DECOMMISSIONING OF NO.2 DISUSED WELLS, CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561644

• 12 Sept 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK, GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 10/70147, AND ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561569

• 19 Jun 2025Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SIDE AND REAR EXTENSION, (2) RENOVATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE REAR AND SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, (3) ERECTION OF A DETACHED SHED, (4) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE, (5) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (6) AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2561032

• 23 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) A 10-YEAR PERMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG DURATION ENERGY STORAGE (LDES) COMPOUND WITH A TOTAL SURFACE AREA OF C.2.9HA CONTAINING 248NO. BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE UNITS IN THE FORM OF METAL SHIPPING CONTAINERS [APPROXIMATELY 12.2M (L) X 2.6M (W) AND 2.9M (H) EACH] AND ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY CONTROL AND VENTILATION EQUIPMENT; (2) INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND (C.3,600SQ M) TO FACILITATE AN UNDER-THE FENCE CONNECTION TO THE ADJACENT TRILLICK 110KV SUBSTATION. THE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND WILL INCLUDE A CONTROL BUILDING OF C.27SQ M, A 110 KV TRANSFORMER, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, AND AN UP TO 18M HIGH LIGHTNING PROTECTION MONOPOLE MAST; (3) A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION COMPOUND WITH A TOTAL SURFACE AREA OF C.1,500SQ M. C.515M OF NEW AND UPGRADED ACCESS TRACKS; 3NO. ENTRANCES FROM THE L-7231 PUBLIC ROAD COMPRISING THE UPGRADE OF 1NO. EXISTING ENTRANCE AND CREATION OF 1NO. NEW PERMANENT ACCESS AND 1NO. NEW TEMPORARY ACCESS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF THE FACILITY; (4) UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS CABLING BETWEEN THE PROPOSED LDES COMPOUND AND THE PROPOSED ON-SITE TRANSFORMER COMPOUND WHICH WILL CROSS UNDER THE L-7231 PUBLIC ROAD; (5) SECURITY LIGHTING; (6) POLE MOUNTED CCTV AND COMMUNICATIONS MAST; (7) ON-SITE FRESHWATER STORAGE TANK INCLUDING FRESH WATER TREATMENT UNIT IN THE FORM OF A METAL SHIPPING CONTAINER; (8) ON-SITE DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED VEGETATED ATTENUATION POND; (9) A STORAGE CONTAINER IN THE FORM OF A METAL SHIPPING CONTAINER; (10) SOUND REFLECTIVE BARRIERS TO A HEIGHT OF 4M; (11) SECURITY FENCING AND GATES; AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT, SERVICES AND CLEARANCE WORKS INCLUDING TREE FELLING OF C.4.7HA OF CONIFER PLANTATION; LANDSCAPING AND PLANTING. THE PROPOSED LDES FACILITY WILL BE OPERATIONAL FOR A PERIOD OF 30 YEARS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461497

• 2 May 2024Conditional

  RAISING EXISTING GROUND LEVELS OF LANDHOLDING TO IMPROVE THE LAND FOR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460638

• 25 Mar 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460383

• 12 Mar 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460315

• 6 Feb 2024N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460091

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW UNDERGROUND SLURRY RUN-OFF TANK AND (B) EXTENSION TO AN EXISTING SLATTED SHED TO PROVIDE COVER TO THE PROPOSED TANK AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351593

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  SLATTED SHED, EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251745

• 30 Aug 2022Conditional

  (1) ADDITIONAL FOOTPRINT PROVIDED TO AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT SHED (2) A NEW ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD (3) THE CLOSURE OF AN EXISTING ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD (4) AN ENLARGED SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE PIPE DISCHARGING INTO THE EXISTING STREAM AND PERMISSION FOR (1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW SLATTED SHED, EFFLUENT TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE-WORKS INCLUDING THE LOCAL RAISING OF GROUND LEVEL TO TIE INTO THE EXISTING CONCRETE YARD (B) A NEW LEAN-TO STORAGE SHED TO THE EAST OF AN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251448

• 11 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF:10/70147 (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 10/70147

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150444

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING STONE WALL STEADS (2) ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150351

• 1 Mar 2021N/a

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING DUE TO DEFECTIVE MICA BLOCKWORK GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF:10/70147 (2) ERECTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT AND SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF: 10/70147

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150359

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052034

• 30 Sept 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK, ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ACCESS LANE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951475

• 6 Aug 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY TANK AND ACCESS VIA AN EXISTING ACCESS LANE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951236

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH ATTACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1950853

• 22 Oct 2018Refused

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANT AND DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1851615

The 25 most recent of 27 applications.

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 Ballynahone.

Recorded monuments

• DG038-003 Standing stone
  Description

  A stone, lying flat, and 2.3m long × c. 1.1m wide. It has two cup-marks on its upper surface. This is probably the 'Standing Stone' marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on bog land among craggy ridges. 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

• DG038-008 Standing stone
  Description

  There is no trace of the 'Standing Stones' (2 shown) marked on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map. Situated on rough rocky ground on the W slopes of a hill. 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

• DG038-060 Rock art
  Description

  In the blanket-bog covered uplands, with Mouldy Hill forming the highest point at W. Located in rough heather- and sedge-covered terrain at the W end of a narrow E–W boggy ‘valley’ bordered on the N and S by ridges of rock outcropping. The W end of the valley opens out, providing an expansive vista S–W of Lough Swilly, Inch Island and fertile lowland in the middle distance, framed in the background by the mountains of W Donegal, including Muckish Mountain, the peak of Errigal, and the Derryveagh Range. This decorated stone presents a flat, fine-grained horizontal surface embedded in the ground. The full extent of the stone is uncertain -only a portion (L 0.85m E–W; Wth 0.58m N–S T at least 0.1m) is exposed, with heather encroaching on all sides. A ringed-cupmark, shallow and weathered, is visible at the narrow E end of the exposed surface. The cupmark (diam. 5cm) is enclosed by three concentric rings, each consisting of a shallow groove (Wth c. 2cm). The third, outermost ring can only be traced as an arc on the NE side. A shallow subcircular depression (diam. c. 4cm) located 10-12cm W of the ringed-cupmark may be the weathered remnant of another cupmark, but this is very uncertain. Notified to National Monument Service by Liam McLoughlin. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 20 June 2022

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two-storey farm house, built c. 1870 with porch to rear. Pitched artificial slate roof to front, slate to rear, red clay roll ridge tiles, yellow brick corbelled chimneystacks with three octagonal yellow clay pots to gables, uPVC eaves and replacement rainwater goods; gabled dormer windows with pitched artificial slate roof, red clay roll ridge tiles and uPVC bargeboards with red clay finial. Roughcast rendered walls with recessed rendered plinth to front. Square-headed window openings, paired timber one-over-one sash windows to front with applied colonnette to central mullion; timber four-over-two, six-over-six, one-over-one with margin-lights sash windows to rear; timber fixed frame diamond-shaped window to first floor over entrance to front; rendered projecting reveals to front, rendered reveals to rear, painted stone sills. Square-headed entrance door opening, replacement timber door flanked by timber sidelights over timber panel, timber architrave surrounds surmounted by moulded timber transom and timber bipartite overlight, projecting rendered reveals. House set back from road, with wrought-iron double gates on rectangular rendered piers; farmyard complex (40903823) to north of house.

• Gates/railings/walls, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Gateway erected c. 1870 comprising cylindrical rubble stone piers, with conical cement rendered cap on slate course, and wrought strap-iron field gate.

• Farmyard complex, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Complex of single and two-storey farm buildings, built c. 1870, built in two ranges comprising former forge, potato store, turnip store, byre, stables, milking house and threshing mill around yard with two-storey farm house to south end, all still in use for farm purposes. Pitched slate and artificial slate roofs with blue-black clay ridge tiles, rectangular brick chimneystack to gable of former stables, stone eaves course, projecting brick eaves to former mill and turnip store, replacement rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls, some white-washed, date stone. Square-headed window openings, with replacement and some original windows including cast-iron nine pane casements, cast-iron diamond-paned fixed frame window; white-washed stone slab sill to former milking house. Square-headed entrance door openings, with timber vertically-sheeted doors, and modern corrugated-sheeted doors. Remains of slab stone pavement with diamond-shaped engraved pattern to former byre; bellows, rubble stone and brick chimney and iron anvil to former forge.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballynahone, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2014 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballynahone

Area

4,396,787 m² (439.68 ha, 1,086.47 acres)

Civil parish

Upper Fahan, and its townlands

Barony

Inishowen West

Electoral division

Fahan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,634 people lived in 546 households in the Fahan electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 20% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annaslee, Carrontlieve, Craigtown, Gransha, Letter, Roosky, Trillick, Tullydush Lower, Tullydush Upper

Placenames

Ballynahone 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.