# Ballyscanlan Upper, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,630,120 m² (163.01 ha, 402.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,216 m² (1.92 ha, 4.75 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Loughkeel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15929 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 50289 - Centre: latitude 55.055032, longitude -7.749502 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyscanlan Upper, from 39 m² to 187,054 m² (18.71 ha, 46.22 acres); 23 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1330575: 187,054 m² (18.71 ha, 46.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330575.md - Parcel 1356857: 125,525 m² (12.55 ha, 31.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1356857.md - Parcel 1339700: 123,484 m² (12.35 ha, 30.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1339700.md - Parcel 1330829: 93,648 m² (9.36 ha, 23.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1330829.md - Parcel 1311479: 90,052 m² (9.01 ha, 22.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311479.md - Parcel 1376739: 78,928 m² (7.89 ha, 19.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1376739.md - Parcel 1393230: 75,003 m² (7.5 ha, 18.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1393230.md - Parcel 1427625: 52,844 m² (5.28 ha, 13.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427625.md - Parcel 1374082: 52,010 m² (5.2 ha, 12.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374082.md - Parcel 1342911: 47,546 m² (4.75 ha, 11.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342911.md - Parcel 1372179: 45,576 m² (4.56 ha, 11.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1372179.md - Parcel 1426895: 39,551 m² (3.96 ha, 9.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426895.md - Parcel 1395146: 39,016 m² (3.9 ha, 9.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395146.md - Parcel 1378752: 38,285 m² (3.83 ha, 9.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1378752.md - Parcel 1380696: 35,061 m² (3.51 ha, 8.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1380696.md - Parcel 1357007: 33,605 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1357007.md - Parcel 1427510: 32,510 m² (3.25 ha, 8.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1427510.md - Parcel 1305641: 30,960 m² (3.1 ha, 7.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1305641.md - Parcel 1406730: 28,225 m² (2.82 ha, 6.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406730.md - Parcel 1361621: 26,687 m² (2.67 ha, 6.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1361621.md - Parcel 1424182: 24,014 m² (2.4 ha, 5.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1424182.md - Parcel 1307669: 23,512 m² (2.35 ha, 5.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1307669.md - Parcel 1325556: 23,062 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1325556.md - Parcel 1331259: 22,144 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1331259.md - Parcel 1324768: 22,131 m² (2.21 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1324768.md - Parcel 1375092: 22,028 m² (2.2 ha, 5.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1375092.md - Parcel 1392227: 16,404 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1392227.md - Parcel 1333640: 15,191 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1333640.md - Parcel 4747993: 13,032 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747993.md - Parcel 1326372: 12,601 m² (1.26 ha, 3.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1326372.md - Parcel 1308003: 7,277 m² (0.73 ha, 1.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1308003.md - Parcel 4747996: 5,279 m² (0.53 ha, 1.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4747996.md - Parcel 1526317: 5,016 m² (0.5 ha, 1.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526317.md - Parcel 1417278: 4,035 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1417278.md - Parcel 1354558: 3,587 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1354558.md - Parcel 6134839: 3,134 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6134839.md - Parcel 3663556: 2,718 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3663556.md - Parcel 1341792: 2,640 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1341792.md - Parcel 4722467: 2,418 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4722467.md - Parcel 1340431: 2,131 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1340431.md - Parcel 1314840: 2,043 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1314840.md - Parcel 1336961: 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1336961.md - Parcel 1353211: 2,029 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1353211.md - Parcel 5169689: 1,950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169689.md - Parcel 1338354: 1,366 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1338354.md - Parcel 1342335: 979 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1342335.md - Parcel 1526324: 501 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1526324.md - Parcel 5169663: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5169663.md - Parcel 1349234: 391 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1349234.md - Parcel 1313449: 149 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1313449.md - Parcel 1311160: 77 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1311160.md - Parcel 6134995: 39 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6134995.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 5 applications, newest first. - 10 Apr 2026, Donegal County Council 2660611: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660611/0 - 30 Dec 2024, Donegal County Council 2450269: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE DESIGN FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLAN. REG. REF. NO. 22/50771. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2450269/0 - 19 Oct 2023, Donegal County Council 2351595: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REF: 21/51250 AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2351595/0 - 3 May 2022, Donegal County Council 2250771: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2250771/0 - 24 Jun 2021, Donegal County Council 2151250: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151250/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Leannan River SAC, site code 002176, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002176 - Special Protection Area: Lough Fern SPA, site code 004060, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004060 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern, site code 001162 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyscanlan Upper. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyscanlan Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghawoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghawoney.md - Ballyscanlan Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-lower.md - Drumabodan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumabodan.md - Portleen: https://everytownland.com/donegal/portleen.md - Skreen Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-lower.md - Skreen Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/skreen-upper.md - Tawny Lower: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-lower.md - Tawny Middle: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-middle.md - Tawny Upper: https://everytownland.com/donegal/tawny-upper.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ballyscanlan-upper