Ballyheerin

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheerin, from 62 m² to 132,876 m² (13.29 ha, 32.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballyheerin 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.

• 3 Oct 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561725

• 27 Sept 2025N/a

  ERECTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561678

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560532

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  ALTERATIONS AND CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2462180

• 21 Dec 2023Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ON-SITE SEWERAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351991

• 17 Aug 2023Refused

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351219

• 29 May 2023N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF NEW PUMPED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350746

• 11 May 2023N/a

  ALTERATIONS AND EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF NEW PUMPED SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350649

• 2 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150131

• 22 Dec 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC SHED AND INSTALLATION OF A SEPTIC TANK

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2052015

• 26 Sept 2018Conditional

  AN EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851497

• 1 Aug 2018N/a

  THE MODIFICATION AND EXTENSION OF EXISTING DOMESTIC SHED RESULTING IN THE INCREASE OF THE OVERALL FLOOR AREA AND HEIGHT OF THE DOMESTIC SHED WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851201

• 11 Apr 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, MINOR INTERNAL RENOVATION WORKS AND PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING FINISHES/ELEVATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850541

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: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159

Recorded monuments

• DG017-009 Burial ground
  Description

  The eastern half of a circular, flat-topped platform 1m in height and c. 20m in diameter survives to indicate this burial ground. The W side has been destroyed by road widening. The edge of the area is revetted by large stones and there is a lot of stone on the platform top. It is located on a slight W to E slope in grazing land. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG017-010 Church
  Description

  The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map marks an 'Old Church' at this site. It had apparently been removed by the time of the 2nd edition. The site has now been built over. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

• DG017-028 Penal Mass station
  Description

  Depicted on current edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Altar (Remains of)' but not marked on first ed. OS 6-inch map.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1880, having projecting single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the front elevation (east), and with single-storey lean-to addition attached to the south. Now disused. Pitched natural slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, eaves course, raised rendered verges and rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south). Hipped cement rendered slate roof to entrance porch. Mono-pitched felt roof to lean-to. Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls with exposed rubble stone construction to entrance porch. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Square-headed doorway to porch having battened timber door with blocked overlight. Set back from road with pair of single-storey outbuildings set perpendicular to house to the north having pitched natural slate roof and barrel-vaulted corrugated-metal roofs, smooth rendered and rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings. Yard to front (east). Located to the north-east of Milltown to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula. Property overlooks Bush Bay to the east.

• House, 1890–1920 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey with attic level vernacular house, built c. 1900 and possibly incorporating fabric from an earlier structure to sites, having projecting single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation. Pitched natural slate roof with exposed rafter ends, no rainwater goods and with rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (north and south). Roughcast rendered rubble stone walls to main elevation (west), cement rendered walls to gable ends. Square-headed window openings to main elevation with stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to the south elevation having timber casement windows, and square-headed window opening at attic level to the north gable end having six-over-three pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed doorway to front elevation of porch having battened timber door, and with plain overlight above to main body of building. Set parallel and alongside road with concrete path to front and set adjacent to two-storey mid-twentieth century building to west. Located to the north\north-east of Milltown to the south-west end of the Fanad Peninsula.

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 Ballyheerin, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyheerin · Baile Uí Shírín

Area

1,191,607 m² (119.16 ha, 294.45 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 155 households in the Fanad West electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 20% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 35% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhork, Clooney and Gortnamona, Doocarrick, Lurgacloghan, Muineagh, Tully

Placenames

Ballyheerin 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.