Ballymaquin

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaquin, from 2,037 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres) to 443,694 m² (44.37 ha, 109.64 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 7 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 Ballymaquin 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymaquin in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Leannan River SAC 002176
• Special Protection Area: Derryveagh And Glendowan Mountains SPA 004039
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Akibbon And Gartan Lough 000158

Recorded monuments

• DG052-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  The site of this holy well has been forested. It was dedicated to St. Colmcille. 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/revision: 02 November 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint Colmcille's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Catholic church, built c.1830, having four-bay nave, gabled porch of c.1850, sacristy to northeast and later gabled sacristy and boiler house to southwest. Renovated c.2005. Pitched replacement slate roof on eaves course, having rendered copings and kneeler stones, cross finials to apex, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched replacement slate roof to projections, sacristy having roughcast-rendered chimneystack. Roughcast-rendered and painted walls with smooth plinth course. Pointed-arch openings with raised render surrounds, hood-mouldings, concrete sills and replacement double-light Y-tracery six-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows; similar single three-over-six pane windows to projections. Double-leaf replacement timber battened door to porch with traceried fanlight, within recessed pointed-arch raised render surround, having small Celtic cross plaque inscribed '1851 St Colmcille's 2005'. Interior has timber board ceiling, exposed timber queen-post roof, timber pews, grey marble altar, timber panelled balustrade to gallery and carved Stations of the Cross. Rendered boundary wall to southeast with concrete coping, replacement square-plan rubble piers and decorative cast-iron gate with shamrock emblems. Set on elevated site, with Marian grotto to northwest and car park to east.

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 Ballymaquin, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymaquin · Baile Mhic Cuinn

Area

750,077 m² (75.01 ha, 185.35 acres)

Civil parish

Gartan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Church Hill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

400 people lived in 141 households in the Church Hill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaturr, Claggan South, Crockraw, Curraghavogy, Drumnalifferny, Staghall

Placenames

Ballymaquin 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.