Ballymonaster

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymonaster, from 50 m² to 134,465 m² (13.45 ha, 33.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballymonaster 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.

• 24 Oct 2025Conditional

  EXISTING FRONT PORCH AND PERMISSION FOR (1) EXTENSION TO THE REAR AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING PROPERTY AND RAISING THE ROOF RIDGE HEIGHT TO INCORPORATE BEDROOMS WITHIN THE ROOFSPACE (2) ERECTION OF A GARAGE/STORE FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561858

• 6 Sept 2024Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, (2) DOMESTIC GARAGE/STORE, (3) DOMESTIC WASTE WATER SEPTIC TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND (4) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461376

• 27 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) ERECTION OF A SINGLE TWO STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING & DETACHED GARAGE/STORE AND (2) INSTALLATION OF A WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2351814

• 21 Apr 2022Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DETACHED DOMESTIC BUNGALOW TYPE DWELLING, DETACHED GARAGE/STORE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM & PERCOLATION AREA & ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250697

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 Ballymonaster.

Recorded monuments

• DG070-042 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone 2.16m high × 1.74m wide × 0.68m thick; NE-SW. Situated in good land on the level summit of a low hill. 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

• DG070-077 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymonaster Bridge, bridge, 1790–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Double-arched bridge carrying road over the Deele River, built c. 1801, having V-profile coursed rubble stone cutwater to the central pier to both the upstream and downstream elevations (east and west). Segmental-headed arches having dressed cut stone voussoirs; coursed rubble stone construction to the arch barrel. Coursed rubble stone construction to pier and spandrels. Rubble stone parapets with field stone coping over. Tarmacadam deck with grass verges. Modern concrete underpinning to central pier and to abutments. Located in the rural countryside to the south-east of Raphoe.

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 Ballymonaster, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1866 (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.

No address of the register names Ballymonaster with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballymonaster

Area

584,015 m² (58.4 ha, 144.31 acres)

Civil parish

Clonleigh, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Clonleigh North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,429 people lived in 520 households in the Clonleigh North electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bogagh, Cloghfin, Cottown, Kilmonaster Lower, Lisnabert, Magherashanvally

Placenames

Ballymonaster 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.