Ballynakilly
Townland in the civil parish of Conwal, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal
- Area
- 163.5 ha
- 404 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 5,150 m² (0.52 ha, 1.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakilly, from 111 m² to 318,496 m² (31.85 ha, 78.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Ballynakilly 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
4 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING DEMOLITION OF EXISTING ATTACHED SHED, ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND AN INCREASE TO THE OVERALL RIDGE HEIGHT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, (4) UPGRADING OF EXISTING VEHICLE ENTRANCE TO THE SITE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD, AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661032
4 Jun 2026Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED COMPRISING OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED COMPLETE WITH AN ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANK, (2) ROOFING OF EXISTING EXTERNAL HANDLING AREA AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2661033
27 May 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL OTHER SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660969
27 May 2026N/a
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS AND INCREASE TO THE OVERALL RIDGE HEIGHT, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, (3) INSTALLATION OF A NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVICE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, (4) UPGRADE OF EXISTING VEHICLE ENTRANCE TO THE SITE FROM THE PUBLIC ROAD AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660973
16 Mar 2026Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AGRICULTURAL SLATTED SHED, WITH ASSOCIATED UNDERGROUND EFFLUENT TANKS, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660434
23 May 2025Conditional
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT AND SIDE EXTENSIONS TO ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560827
16 May 2025N/a
(1) REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING HOUSE, TO INCLUDE PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING ELEVATIONS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF FRONT AND SIDE EXTENSIONS TO ABOVE MENTIONED EXISTING DWELLING, (3) INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560792
14 May 2025Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560767
26 Sept 2023Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION AND REFURBISHMENT OF DWELLING HOUSE AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351436
22 Jul 2021Conditional
ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151469
2 Dec 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2051846
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynakilly.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakilly.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakilly.
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 10 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 Ballynakilly.
- 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 Ballynakilly with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakilly
- Area
- 1,635,275 m² (163.53 ha, 404.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Conwal, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Templedouglas, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templedouglas electoral division: 1,089 people in 352 households; 89% of households own their home; 49% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Drummacanoo, Glenkeeragh, Magheran, Sockar, Stackarnagh, Tullychullion, Whitehill
- Placenames
- Ballynakilly 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.