Ballymunterhiggin

100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymunterhiggin, from 414 m² to 359,846 m² (35.98 ha, 88.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballymunterhiggin 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.

• 27 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2660966

• 29 Sept 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF ONE AND HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561684

• 18 Aug 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561421

• 25 Mar 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INSTALLATION OF SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560434

• 29 Jul 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461151

• 5 Jun 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A ONE AND HALF STOREY DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460828

• 5 Jun 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2460826

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE FROM ATTIC STORAGE SPACE TO USE AS DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING WITH ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL CHANGES INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ROOFLIGHTS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460166

• 15 Feb 2024Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AS CONSTRUCTED AND PLANNING PERMISSION CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EASTERN GABLE OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460160

• 7 Feb 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE FROM ATTIC STORAGE SPACE TO USE AS DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION AT FIRST FLOOR LEVEL OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2460116

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT SUNROOM EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150720

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF SEPTIC TANK WITH REED BED, TERTIARY WETLAND AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951630

• 13 Aug 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS TO THE SIDE AND REAR OF AN EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951234

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymunterhiggin.

Recorded monuments

• DG107-067001 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone, leaning considerably but originally c. 1.1m high × 0.75m wide. This is probably one of the two stones '36ft apart and orientated almost due E-W' which were previously recorded at the site in 1946 (Davies). A loose stone lying nearby may be the second stone referred to. Situated in rough pasture land near the summit of a rocky ridge. 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

• DG107-067002 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone, leaning considerably but originally c. 1.1m high × 0.75m wide. This is probably one of the two stones '36ft apart and orientated almost due E-W' which were previously recorded at the site in 1946 (Davies). A loose stone lying nearby may be the second stone referred to. Situated in rough pasture land near the summit of a rocky ridge. 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

• DG107-082 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Tober Patrick is now almost destroyed and obscured. (Ó Muirgheasa No. 4) 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 Tober Patrick is now almost destroyed and obscured (Ó Muirgheasa No. 4). This site was inspected and recorded by Fintan Walsh under excavation licence no. 03E1012 which was part of the Ballyshannon/Bundoran Bypass road scheme. Th following information was taken from the NRA website which records that ' Ballymunterhiggin 1 was located at the interface between low-lying bogland to the south and west, and a rising hill (large rock outcrop) to the north. The site is at the base of a collapsed cave. The holy well itself was located immediately adjacent to a dry stone and hawthorn boundary wall which defined the limits of the well on its northern side. The southern side of the well was bogland. The opening to the well itself was c. 0.60-0.70 m wide east-west and 1 m north-south. The well opening was bound by bedrock along its western edge while its upper eastern edge was indeterminable due to thick overgrowth and boggy conditions. The well would have to have been approached from the drier northern side. No artefacts were uncovered during clean-back around the well. During the survey it was noticed that there was a well-preserved stile (Stile A) incorporated into a stone wall which defined the field boundary along the adjacent country road. A second stile (which was in bad condition) was recorded to the north-west of Stile A. This stile (Stile B) was incorporated into a dry stone wall field boundary close to the base of the large rocky hill. Stile A was a well-preserved stone stile c. 1.10 m high constructed of fairly irregular stones (0.30-0.40 m diameter) similar to those used in the construction of the stonewall field boundary into which it was incorporated. Architecturally it was defined by a series of three flat steps and a vertical divider. The second stile (Stile B) was badly disturbed and only survived as a break in the dry stonewall into which it was incorporated. Stiles A and B may have facilitated 'pilgrim' access for those visiting the well from the adjacent road' (Walsh, F. 2004).

• DG107-083 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  This monument, not shown on any edition of the OS 6-inch map, is just over 2km S of Ballyshannon, standing inconspicuously amid outcropping rock in gently undulating pasture. The mountain peaks of the northern parts of counties Leitrim and Sligo dominate the skyline to the S, and those of SW Donegal that to the Wand NW. The structure consists of a large oval central court with a lateral entrance to the S and two opposed galleries, each of two chambers, opening off its narrow E and W ends. In addition, there are three subsidiary chambers opening onto the court, two of them close together at the N and the third at the S just W of the entrance. The southern subsidiary chamber stands more or less opposite the western one of the two at the N. It has been suggested that some buried stones to the E of the court entrance may be the remains of a fourth subsidiary chamber (Ó Nualláin 1976, 95, 106), but further investigation would be required to determine whether this is so. The structure is incorporated in a long grass-grown mound bounded by a kerb in a fair state of preservation. The cairn, as outlined by the kerbstones, is oval in plan. It measures 40.5m E-W and is 16m wide at mid-length, from where it narrows to either end. The mound is best preserved at the E, where it is 0.5-0.75m high. It has slipped somewhat beyond the limits of the kerb in places. Around 30 kerbstones, hatched on the plan, can reliably be identified, and it is likely that others lie buried. The lone kerbstone 3.5m E of the northern subsidiary chambers is 0.4m high. Two kerbstones beside each other at the NE, the western one slightly inside the line of the eastern, are 0.4m and 0.3m high. The six close together at the eastern extremity of the cairn range from 0.lm to 0.5m high, and the lone kerbstone at the SE is 0.3m high. The westernmost of four adjoining the E side of the entrance to the court is slightly inside the line of the other three and indicates a slight inturning of the kerb here. These are between 0.3m and 0.5m high. The two kerbstones beside each other c. 4.5m W of the entrance to the court are 0.3m high. Beyond the back and N side of the western gallery are fifteen kerbstones next to or close to each other. These vary from 0.1m to 1.1m high. At the SW, c. 1m inside the kerb, is a gapped line, 9m long, of eleven low stones, the largest 0.75m in maximum dimension. These may represent an inner kerb, but excavation would be required to confirm this. Other stones protrude from the cairn, but none is definitely structural, and these, along with some others that lie loose on the surface, are shown but not hatched on the plan. The court The entrance passage to the court, just W of midway along its S side, is c. 3.5m long. It narrows from c. 1.5m wide at the outer end to 0.7m at the inner. Four stones survive at the W side, and three on the E side. The outer stone at the W is 0.4m high; the next, 0.7m to the N, is also 0.4m high; the third and fourth are 0.4m and 0.5m high. Two of the three stones on the E side are together at the outer end of the passage. The southern one is 0.9m high, and the northern is 0.35m high. The third stone, 1.6m N of the last, is 0.3m high. The court is 12.2m long (E-W) and 8m wide. The jambs marking the entrances to the eastern and western galleries and the surviving entrance jambs of the subsidiary chambers form part of the court perimeter and generally comprise its largest stones. The opposed stones at the inner end of the entrance passage to the court also serve as courtstones. A further thirteen courtstones can be recognised. There are six at the NE between the main eastern gallery and the northern subsidiary chambers; there are five at the SE between the same gallery and the court entrance; and there is one each at the NW and SW between the main western gallery and the northern subsidiary chambers and the southern subsidiary chamber. These courtstones range from 0.15m to 0.5m high. Eastern gallery The eastern gallery, c. 7.5m long, is set slightly askew to the long axis of the court. Entry to it is between two well-matched jambs, 0.65m apart, from above which a lintel has been displaced. Both jambs are 0.9m high. The lintel, 2.4m by 0.65m by 0.7m thick, now lies in front of the jambs, with one end raised on the courts tone beside the northern entrance jamb and partly supported by another displaced stone measuring 1.55m by 0.5m by 0.6m thick. The first chamber is c. 3.5m long. It is 1.8m wide just inside the entrance jambs, widening to over 2m at the middle and then narrowing to 1.65m at the inner end. Two orthostats form its S side. The outer one is 0.25m high, and the inner is 0.4m high. An orthostat survives at either end of the N side of this chamber. The outer one is 0.35m high, and the inner is 0.7m high. Two segmenting jambs standing 0.5m apart, both partly inset in the gallery sides, mark the division between the two chambers. The northern one is 0.5m high. The southern one, which rises 0.4m above the northern, is 1m high. The inner chamber is c. 3.5m long and was c. 2m wide. Two orthostats form its S side. The outer one is 0.4m high, and the inner is 0.6m high. A single orthostat, 0.65m high, beside the northern segmenting jamb, survives on the N side. The backstone closing the gallery is set with its inner face in line with the end of the adjacent sidestone at the S, and the two are of similar height. The backstone is 0.9m in exposed height. It is more or less flat topped with sloping ends. Western gallery This gallery is c. 7m long. Entry to it is between two well-matched jambs, 0.7m apart, both of which are 0.75m high. The northern one is transversely set, and the southern is set slightly askew to the S side of the gallery. The jambs support a lintel, now somewhat displaced, which measures 2.2m by 1.25m by 0.7m thick. Just S of the southern jamb is a prostrate slab, 1.2m in maximum dimension. The outer one of the two chambers is 2m wide and c. 3.5m long. Three orthostats, two of them small and the third a large stone, form the N side of the chamber, and a single large orthostat remains on the S side. The outermost stone at the N is the same height as the adjacent entrance jamb. The second orthostat here is 0.lm high; and the third is 0.4m in maximum height. On the S side of the chamber the entrance jamb rises 0.3m above the top of the orthostat there, which is 0.5m high. The segmenting jambs, both set longitudinally, are l.lm apart at their inner ends. The southern one, 0.6m high, is skewed somewhat so that its outer end is partly in line with the side of the first chamber and its inner end is inside the line of the second chamber. The northern jamb, 0.5m high, is set inside the line of the gallery side. Approximately 0.6m N of this and at the outer edge of the gallery wall there is a set stone 0.25m high. This is clearly a structural stone. Between the two jambs, and parallel to them, there is a low set stone, 0.3m high. The status of this stone is not clear, and it is not hatched on the plan. The second chamber is c. 3.5m long. The front half of it is 2.45m wide, and it narrows to 1.65m at the back. Two orthostats form each side, and it is closed by a backstone with a flat top and sloping ends. The outer one of the two orthostats at the N is 0.5m high, and the inner one, skewed so as to narrow the back of the chamber, is also 0.5m high. The outer orthostat at the S side is 1.2m high. The inner stone here is the same height as the backstone, 1m high. Western of two subsidiary chambers at north This chamber, like the other two subsidiary chambers, stands at right angles to the main axis of the monument. A courts tone, 0.3m high, seems to have served as a transversely set entrance jamb to the chamber, which appears to have been 3m long. Apart from this stone, the front one-third of the chamber is missing. The remainder of the chamber is represented by two stones at either side and a flat-topped backstone. Approximately 0.8m N of t

• DG107-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In the NW corner of a pasture field, located on the level top of a roughly ENE-WSW ridge, close to the break of slope on the N side where the ground falls away to N in a long gently slope. Slightly raised, roughly circular area (32m E–W; 27.4m N–S to field drain at N) defined NE–NW by a low earthen bank (Wth 5.5-6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m, at E) with an external fosse (Wth 3.5-4m). The bank has been partly levelled and is reduced to a low internal lip with a broadly slumped external scarp. At NW a section of bank (Wth 5m) is entirely levelled. The fosse is infilled and is evident as a cropmark of soft, wet ground distinguished by a thicker growth of rushes. At NNW-NE the bank and fosse are truncated by a field ditch, bordered on its N side by an earth and stone field fence. A gap (Wth 2.5m) in the bank at SE may indicate the original entrance. In the E half of the level interior, there is a faint outline of a N–S linear feature (Wth c. 1m), possibly the remnant of a field boundary or of ridge and furrow cultivation. Two ringbarrows (DG107-095----; DG107-096----) are located on the same ridge, c. 160m and c. 60m, respectively, to SW. Attached image: DG107-123----_01.JPG viewed from SE Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 10 April 2014

• DG110-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27m. A subcircular raised area 1.8m high enclosed by a fosse, up to 1.5m in width. There is possible evidence for an entrance in the form of a causeway on the SW side. It is situated on pasture sloping to the N. 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

• DG110-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 30m. A subcircular area enclosed by a much-damaged earthen bank and a silted-up fosse. The interior is very overgrown. It is situated on marshy pasture on a low plateau overlooking the valley of the River Bradoge. 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

• DG110-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 21m. A subcircular area enclosed by an earthen bank and external fosse. The bank is much disturbed and the fosse recently deepened. The remains of a lime-kiln are set internally against the W side. It is situated on cultivated land sloping gently to the Bradoge river to the S. 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

• DG110-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 19m. A subcircular area enclosed by an earthen bank .4m high and a silted-up external fosse. The gap to the NE is probably the entrance. It is situated on rising ground overlooking the valley of the River Bradoge to the S in good pasture with wide views. 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

Architectural heritage

• Bradoge Bridge, bridge, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Triple-arched bridge carrying road over the Bradoge River, built c. 1780, having rendered V-profile cutwater to the east elevation. Slightly hump-backed. Round-headed arches having cut stone voussoirs to arches and with modern rendered finish to arch barrels. Roughly squared rubble stone construction to spandrels, pier, and parapets with random rubble stone coping over. Sections of render to side elevations of bridge. Modern repairs in places, particularly to parapets, Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Located in the rural countryside to the south of Ballyshannon. Spans border with County Leitrim to the south.

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 Ballymunterhiggin, about 1 in 20 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 Ballymunterhiggin.

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

Name

Ballymunterhiggin

Area

3,055,450 m² (305.55 ha, 755.02 acres)

Civil parish

Inishmacsaint, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Bundoran Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,179 people lived in 408 households in the Bundoran Rural electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardloughill, Carrickboy, Cavan, Cordiver (Co. Leitrim), Cornaglah (Co. Leitrim), Dunmuckrum, Legaloscran, Sminver

Placenames

Ballymunterhiggin 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.