Ray
Ray is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal.
- Area
- 67.4 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 35
- registered freehold, median 4,326 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ray, from 86 m² to 153,156 m² (15.32 ha, 37.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ray 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
1 Jul 2026Conditional
ERECTION OF (1) A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (2) AGRICULTURAL DRY BED STORAGE SHED
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650092
6 Feb 2026Conditional
REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING WITH (1) A NEW PORCH AND LOBBY TO THE FRONT, ADDITION OF A FIRST FLOOR WINDOW AND MODIFICATION TO EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS, (2) EXTENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AND REAR OF THE ORIGINAL DWELLING AND (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660148
28 Jan 2026N/a
REFURBISHMENT AND EXTENSION OF AN EXISTING DERELICT DWELLING TO INCLUDE (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PORCH AND LOBBY TO THE FRONT, (2) ADDITION OF A FIRST FLOOR WINDOW AND MODIFICATION TO EXISTING FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS, (3) CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AND REAR OF THE ORIGINAL DWELLING AND (4) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2660103
11 Jun 2025Conditional
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING POLYTUNNEL WITH SILAGE PIT AND ERECTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560967
30 May 2025N/a
DEMOLITION OF EXISTING POLYTUNNEL WITH SILAGE PIT AND ERECTION OF A NEW SLATTED AGRICULTURAL SHED WITHIN EXISTING FARMYARD COMPLEX INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560894
11 Sept 2024Conditional
ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461411
14 Dec 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2251998
8 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC SHED AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM UNIT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2152001
4 Oct 2021N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC SHED AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM UNIT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151963
24 May 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050575
24 May 2020Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050460
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 Ray.
Recorded monuments
- DG045-014 Bullaun stone
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ray.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ray, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ray.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ray with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ray
- Area
- 674,415 m² (67.44 ha, 166.65 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmacrenan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kilmacrenan
- Electoral division
- Ballyarr, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 735 people lived in 241 households in the Ballyarr electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghawoney, Drumabodan, Gortnavern, Grovehall or Newtowngrove, Mullagheep
- Placenames
- Ray 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.