Ballydevitt Beg
Ballydevitt Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Killymard, barony of Banagh, Co. Donegal. Its name in Irish is Baile Daibhéid Beag.
Parcel 1347498
- Area
- 16,606 m² (1.66 ha, 4.1 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballydevitt Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1415 (ZIP).
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- Area
- 82.7 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 88
- registered freehold, median 1,985 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 16
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydevitt Beg, from 49 m² to 150,850 m² (15.09 ha, 37.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballydevitt Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
19 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND CONVERSION OF EXISTING ATTIC SPACE TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562312
18 Dec 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE, INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2562278
15 May 2025Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH A WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR A DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560783
19 Jul 2023Conditional
(1) RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ENLARGEMENT OF EXISTING KITCHEN, NEW ENTRANCE TO SIDE OF HOUSE, CONVERSION OF EXISTING BEDROOM TO BATHROOM AND HOT PRESS, PROVISION OF AN ADDITIONAL TWO BEDROOMS WITH ONE EN-SUITE AND DEMOLITION OF EXISTING OUT OFFICE, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) DOMESTIC GARAGE AND (B) VINTAGE CAR STORAGE UNIT AND (3) DECOMMISSIONING OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND INSTALLATION OF NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351058
12 Aug 2022Conditional
ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH SEWERAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251366
21 Sept 2021Conditional
(1) CONSTRUCTION OF (A) A NEW DWELLING HOUSE (B) DOMESTIC GARAGE (2) PROVISION OF A NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM / PERCOLATION AERA (3) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151876
4 Aug 2021Conditional
REPOSITIONING OF ENTRANCE AND DRIVEWAY AS APPROVED UNDER PLANNING REFERENCE 19/51949 AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151564
2 Jul 2021Conditional
(1) ALTERATIONS TO THE FENESTRATIONS OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED (2) THE SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION BUILT TO THE EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE (3) DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT OF LAND TO THE EAST OF THE DWELLING HOUSE CONSISTING OF A SITE ENTRANCE ONTO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CONCRETE DRIVEWAY AND (4) THE ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMNET WORKS, ALL TO THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF NO. 93/1064
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2151325
4 Dec 2020Conditional
DOMESTIC SHED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A SUNROOM EXTENSION
Retention · Donegal County Council, 2051858
24 Mar 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC DEVELOPMENT, DOMESTIC GARAGE, WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050387
17 Dec 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH EXTENSION, A NEW SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951949
27 Nov 2019N/a
CONSTRUCTION OF (1) A NEW FRONT ENTRANCE PORCH EXTENSION, (2) A NEW SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO THE EXISTING DWELLING TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1951838
3 Sept 2019Conditional
ERECTION OF A TWO STOREY EXTENSION, FACADE ON EXISTING HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951345
27 Jul 2018Conditional
(1) AN AMENDED PITCHED ROOF DESIGN TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING ROOFLIGHTS TO THE REAR ELEVATION IN LIEU OF THAT ORIGINALLY APPROVED INCLUDING ANCILLARY AMENDMENTS TO ELEVATIONS AND (2) AN ATTACHED GARAGE TO THE SIDE AND STORE TO THE REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Retention · Donegal County Council, 1851171
5 Jul 2017Conditional
RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS WITH EXCAVATED SOIL ACCROSS A SITE MEASURING CIRCA 3.8 HECTARES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751046
28 Jun 2017N/a
RAISING OF GROUND LEVELS WITH EXCAVATED SOIL ACCROSS A SITE MEASURING CIRCA 3.8 HECTARES
Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751010
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballydevitt Beg.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballydevitt Beg.
Architectural heritage
- Ballydevitt National School, school, 1945–1950 · Regional interest
Description
Detached six-bay single-storey former national school, dated 1946, having recessed flat-roofed returns and toilet blocks to the rear (north-west). Now out of use. Hipped natural slate roof to main body of building having clayware ridge tiles, projecting stone eaves course, central metal vent, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered finish over red brick walls (English Garden Bond) up to window sill level with smooth rendered plinth to base. Cut stone name and date plaque to the front elevation (south-east) having incised Gaelic lettering reading ‘Scoil Baile Davit, Scoil Naisunta, 1946’. Square-headed window openings having stone sills and remains of three-over three-pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Windows to flat-roofed sections now boarded. Single square-headed doorway to the front face (south-east) of recessed blocks to either side having plain raised ashlar surround with ashlar lintels over, and with remains of timber doors with glazed panels to upper half. Set back from road in own grounds to the north-west of Donegal Town and adjacent to Killymard Church of Ireland church. Located at corner site adjacent to road junctions. Remains of single-storey playground shelters to site. Site bounded on road-frontage by blockwork boundary walls.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballydevitt Beg, 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 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 Ballydevitt Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballydevitt Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.
The townland
- Name
- Ballydevitt Beg · Baile Daibhéid Beag
- Area
- 827,076 m² (82.71 ha, 204.37 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killymard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Banagh
- Electoral division
- Donegal, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 4,179 people lived in 1,617 households in the Donegal electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballydevitt, Clanboorhin, Doonan, Drumgornan, Mullans, Newtowndrumgornan
- Placenames
- Ballydevitt Beg 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.