Ballyscanlan Upper

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyscanlan Upper, from 39 m² to 187,054 m² (18.71 ha, 46.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyscanlan 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.

• 10 Apr 2026Conditional

  (1) RETENTION OF SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED AND (3) ERECTION OF AN ADDITIONAL DRY BED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660611

• 30 Dec 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN. REG. REF. NO. 22/50771

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2450269

• 19 Oct 2023Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/51250 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351595

• 3 May 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250771

• 24 Jun 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151250

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA 004060
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyscanlan Upper.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyscanlan Upper, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyscanlan Upper

Area

1,630,120 m² (163.01 ha, 402.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrenan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Loughkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

331 people lived in 106 households in the Loughkeel electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghawoney, Ballyscanlan Lower, Drumabodan, Portleen, Skreen Lower, Skreen Upper, Tawny Lower, Tawny Middle, Tawny Upper

Placenames

Ballyscanlan 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.