# Ray, Co. Donegal: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrenan, barony of Kilmacrenan, Co. Donegal. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 674,415 m² (67.44 ha, 166.65 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,326 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 11 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrenan, https://everytownland.com/donegal/parish/kilmacrenan.md - Barony: Kilmacrenan - Electoral division: Ballyarr, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Donegal, https://everytownland.com/donegal.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/15703 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 52265 - Centre: latitude 55.032693, longitude -7.729019 (WGS 84) ## 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); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1369376: 153,156 m² (15.32 ha, 37.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1369376.md - Parcel 1395476: 146,908 m² (14.69 ha, 36.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1395476.md - Parcel 1304255: 69,231 m² (6.92 ha, 17.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304255.md - Parcel 1358963: 48,116 m² (4.81 ha, 11.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358963.md - Parcel 5207086: 47,600 m² (4.76 ha, 11.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207086.md - Parcel 1304273: 37,225 m² (3.72 ha, 9.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304273.md - Parcel 1304265: 26,140 m² (2.61 ha, 6.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1304265.md - Parcel 4035356: 26,016 m² (2.6 ha, 6.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4035356.md - Parcel 5206857: 19,756 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5206857.md - Parcel 1358978: 16,853 m² (1.69 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358978.md - Parcel 5206851: 11,858 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5206851.md - Parcel 1301700: 9,082 m² (0.91 ha, 2.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1301700.md - Parcel 5261414: 8,902 m² (0.89 ha, 2.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5261414.md - Parcel 1405795: 8,301 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1405795.md - Parcel 6001520: 7,698 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001520.md - Parcel 5207220: 6,138 m² (0.61 ha, 1.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207220.md - Parcel 5207263: 5,304 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207263.md - Parcel 1332802: 4,326 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1332802.md - Parcel 5326505: 3,523 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5326505.md - Parcel 5341435: 2,961 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341435.md - Parcel 1406731: 2,672 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1406731.md - Parcel 5261415: 2,483 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5261415.md - Parcel 6001300: 2,203 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001300.md - Parcel 6001293: 2,142 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001293.md - Parcel 6001279: 1,940 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6001279.md - Parcel 1426824: 1,747 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1426824.md - Parcel 5206811: 1,729 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5206811.md - Parcel 1374083: 1,692 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1374083.md - Parcel 5326462: 1,541 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5326462.md - Parcel 5341424: 1,183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5341424.md - Parcel 5207219: 1,030 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207219.md - Parcel 5207085: 665 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5207085.md - Parcel 1358988: 365 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1358988.md - Parcel 4992117: 252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4992117.md - Parcel 1328923: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1328923.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 11 applications, newest first. - 1 Jul 2026, Donegal County Council 2650092: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF (1) A DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (2) AGRICULTURAL DRY BED STORAGE SHED. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2650092/0 - 6 Feb 2026, Donegal County Council 2660148: Conditional. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660148/0 - 28 Jan 2026, Donegal County Council 2660103: N/a. Retention. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660103/0 - 11 Jun 2025, Donegal County Council 2560967: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560967/0 - 30 May 2025, Donegal County Council 2560894: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560894/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Donegal County Council 2461411: Conditional. Permission. ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461411/0 - 14 Dec 2022, Donegal County Council 2251998: Conditional. Permission. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2251998/0 - 8 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2152001: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC SHED AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM UNIT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2152001/0 - 4 Oct 2021, Donegal County Council 2151963: N/a. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH DOMESTIC SHED AND A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM UNIT WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2151963/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050575: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050575/0 - 24 May 2020, Donegal County Council 2050460: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEPTIC TANK AND DOMESTIC GARAGE. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/DonegalCC/AppFileRefDetails/2050460/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ray. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - DG045-014: Bullaun stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CDG045-014----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ray. ## 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 Ray, 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 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 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/ray-52265.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ray-52265.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/donegal/ray-52265.kml ## Homes sold (Residential 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: https://everytownland.com/donegal.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghawoney: https://everytownland.com/donegal/aghawoney.md - Drumabodan: https://everytownland.com/donegal/drumabodan.md - Gortnavern: https://everytownland.com/donegal/gortnavern-51443.md - Grovehall or Newtowngrove: https://everytownland.com/donegal/grovehall-or-newtowngrove.md - Mullagheep: https://everytownland.com/donegal/mullagheep.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/ray-52265 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/donegal/ray-52265