Ballynakillew Mountain
Townland in the civil parish of Drumhome, barony of Tirhugh, Co. Donegal; in Irish Baile na Coilleadh
- Area
- 616.2 ha
- 1,523 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 99,315 m² (9.93 ha, 24.54 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakillew Mountain, from 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 668,908 m² (66.89 ha, 165.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakillew Mountain 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 May 2025Conditional
REPLACEMENT SEPTIC TANK AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENTS TO TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560752
18 Nov 2024Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND POLISHING FILTER
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461868
26 Aug 2022Conditional
(1) SINGLE STOREY SUN-ROOM EXTENSION BUILT TO THE WEST GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (2) DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND FUEL STORE BUILT TO THE BACK OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE (3) ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FENESTRATIONS (4) THE AS-CONSTRUCTED FINISHED FLOOR LEVEL (5) ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS TO THAT GRANTED PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. T.1509/90
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251431
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau SAC 001125
- Special Protection Area: Pettigo Plateau Nature Reserve SPA 004099
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dunragh Loughs/Pettigo Plateau 001125
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakillew Mountain.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakillew Mountain.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 20 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 Ballynakillew Mountain.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynakillew Mountain with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakillew Mountain · Baile na Coilleadh
- Area
- 6,161,717 m² (616.17 ha, 1,522.59 acres)
- Civil parish
- Drumhome, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirhugh
- Electoral division
- Ballintra, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintra electoral division: 772 people in 281 households; 80% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Carrick Upper and Lower Barr, Meenanellison, Meensheefin, Mullanasole Barr, Rath Mountain, Rossilly Barr, Shannagh
- Placenames
- Ballynakillew Mountain 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.