Bayhill

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bayhill, from 2,182 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 164,739 m² (16.47 ha, 40.71 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bayhill 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Bayhill in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fern 001162

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bayhill.

Architectural heritage

• Drummonaghan Bridge, bridge, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched bridge carrying road over River Leanne, built c. 1800, having small single-arched bridge over former millrace associated with corn mill (see 40800301 and 40800302) adjacent to the north-east. Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed stone voussoirs; squared rubble stone construction to arch barrel. Squared and rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments. Rubble stone construction to parapets with rubble stone coping over; modern repairs in places. Square-headed drainage openings to parapet bases. Cast-iron pattrice plates with wrought-iron ties to the south-west abutment. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets. Single-arched bridge over former millrace adjoining to the north-east having segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed voussoirs, rubble stone construction to spandrels and abutments, and with rubble stone parapets.

• Weir, 1780–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Weir (on curvilinear-plan) spanning the River Leannan, erected c. 1812, and altered c. 1870 and c. 1930. Possibly incorporating fabric from earlier weir to site. Originally associated with Rathmelton Mills, later Kelly’s Mills (see 40800301-3) adjacent to the south-east. Squared and coursed rubble stone construction to weir. Weir originally built to supply former mill race to the north-east of weir, now out of use. Later sluice mechanism to the west end of mill race, built c. 1930, having reinforced concrete construction and remains of timber sluice gates with steel pulley mechanisms and equipment. Located adjacent to the north-west of Drummonaghan Bridge (see 40800210) and in the rural countryside to the west of Ramelton.

• Weir, 1780–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Weir (on curvilinear-plan) spanning the River Leannan, erected c. 1790, and altered c. 1850. Possibly incorporating fabric from earlier weir or weirs to site. Formerly associated with iodine and bleach mills works; later associated with Watt’s Salmon Fishery. Rubble stone construction. Additional weir (on curvilinear-plan) to the east, built c. 1800 and altered c. 1850, having remains of weir mechanism to the centre. Links south bank of River Leannan with island to centre of river; additional section to the north, built c. 1820, and altered c. 1860 and c. 1920, having rectangular sluice (?) structure to the centre with cement rendered rubble stone walls to the north and south elevations, concrete cutwaters and remains of timber sluice mechanism to the west elevation, and with cement rendered brick piers to the east elevation with remains of wrought-iron sluice mechanism. Square-headed doorway to the south linked to island to south by remains of timber footbridge. Additional weir to the north-east, added c. 1860, having rubble stone construction. Located in the rural countryside to the south-west of the centre of Ramelton, and to the south-west, south, and east of former bleaching green, site of former iodine and bleaching works, and later salmon fishery, and to the south of The Green (see 40800305).

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1789 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Bayhill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Bayhill

Area

240,697 m² (24.07 ha, 59.48 acres)

Civil parish

Tullyfern, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Rathmelton, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathmelton electoral division: 2,494 people in 938 households; 71% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Breaghy, Bridge End or Drummonaghan, Carnisk, Rathmelton

Placenames

Bayhill 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.