Ballyhiernan

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhiernan, from 12 m² to 457,082 m² (45.71 ha, 112.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballyhiernan 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.

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650016

• 10 Feb 2026N/a

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2650015

• 20 Aug 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2550111

• 31 Jul 2025Conditional

  SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, LOCATED TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561308

• 22 Jul 2025Conditional

  EXISTING DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561247

• 6 Feb 2018N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850150

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  PROPOSED ERECTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, AND WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1750684

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: Ballyhoorisky Point to Fanad Head SAC 001975
• Special Area of Conservation: Kindrum Lough SAC 001151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kindrum Lough 001151
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyhoorisky Point To Fanad Head 001975

Recorded monuments

• DG008-010001 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.7m high × 0.4m wide × 0.3m thick; NNE-SSW. This site is marked as 'Standing Stones' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map but there is no visible trace of a second stone (DG008-010002-). It is prominently positioned on a local rise. 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

• DG008-010002 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 1.7m high × 0.4m wide × 0.3m thick; NNE-SSW (DG008-01001-). This site is marked as 'Standing Stones' on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map but there is no visible trace of a second stone (DG008-010002-). It is prominently positioned on a local rise. The above description was published in 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). Date of upload/revision: : 08 September 2010

• DG008-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 15m-16m. Indicated as a single-banked enclosure on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map. It now appears as a fairly flat-topped, circular mound 1m to 1.25m in height. The mound is left uncultivated in low-lying, level, good land overlooked by higher ground 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

• DG008-012001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Internal diam. 17m-19m. An area sub-rectangular in plan is limited on the NE and SW sides by a grassed-over stone wall, on the NW by a steep edge, and on the SE by the more gently sloping edge of the long rocky ridge on which the site is placed. The wall on the NE averages about 1.6m wide and is .6m to .8m in height. There are four narrow gaps in the wall and the stone make-up is visible in places. The wall to the SW is less substantial and towards the S end there is a gap 3.5m wide. In the interior is a circular 'hut' site (DG008-012002-), the internal diam-eter of which is 6.5m. It is bounded by a grassed-over stone wall 1.2m to 1.8m in width and about .2m in height. There is an opening about 3.5m wide on the W. The site is on a long, narrow elevated ridge in wettish pasture. 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

• DG008-012002 Hut site
  Description

  An area sub-rectangular in plan (DG008-012001-) is limited on the NE and SW sides by a grassed-over stone wall, on the NW by a steep edge, and on the SE by the more gently sloping edge of the long rocky ridge on which the site is placed. The wall on the NE averages about 1.6m wide and is .6m to .8m in height. There are four narrow gaps in the wall and the stone make-up is visible in places. The wall to the SW is less substantial and towards the S end there is a gap 3.5m wide. In the interior is a circular 'hut' site, the internal diam-eter of which is 6.5m. It is bounded by a grassed-over stone wall 1.2m to 1.8m in width and about .2m in height. There is an opening about 3.5m wide on the W. The site is on a long, narrow elevated ridge in wettish pasture. 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

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhiernan.

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 Ballyhiernan, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyhiernan · Baile Thiarnáin

Area

3,418,757 m² (341.88 ha, 844.79 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Fanad North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 209 households in the Fanad North electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 42% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Fallaneas, Fanavolty, Kindrum, Laddan, Rinboy, Rinmore, Tonbane Glebe, Toome, Tullynadall

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyhiernan 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.