Ballybulgan

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybulgan, from 280 m² to 77,594 m² (7.76 ha, 19.17 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Ballybulgan 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.

• 2 Dec 2025Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT TANK AND REED BED SYSTEM GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. NO. 23/50627

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2562114

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  ERECTION OF A MACHINERY STORAGE SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461073

• 9 May 2023Conditional

  (1) UPGRADING EXISTING SEPTIC TANK AND PROVISION OF A NEW SEPTIC TANK, REED BED, WETLAND AND DISPOSAL PAD AND (2) RELOCATION OF EXISTING SITE ENTRANCE, ALL TO SERVE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350627

• 27 Aug 2019Conditional

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY AND TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951313

• 12 Aug 2019N/a

  ERECTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A SECONDARY TERTIARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND DISCHARGE TO A DISPOSAL/DISTRIBUTION PAD

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951220

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 Ballybulgan.

Recorded monuments

• DG099-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Internal diam. 27m. A circular space enclosed by an earthen bank. The bank was created by scarping the surrounding hillside and gives the interior a raised appearance. The interior is divided by a field fence and the whole site is overgrown with bushes. It is situated on the eastern shoulder of a ridge of good land raised above wet boggy valleys. 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

• Ballbulgan House, house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three- bay two-storey house, built c 1860, having modern glazed single-storey entrance porch to the centre of the main elevation (south). Two-storey extension attached to the west gable end and modern single-storey extension to the rear (north). Pitched natural slate roof having smooth rendered chimneystacks to the gable ends (east and west); pitched corrugated-metal roof to two-storey extension and hipped artificial slate roof to porch. Roughcast rendered walls over painted plinth. Square-headed window openings with raised rendered surrounds, stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to east face of porch having glazed timber door; square-headed doorway behind porch having replacement glazed timber door. Set well-back from road in mature grounds to the north-west of Ballintra. Approach avenue to house from road to the south. Gateway to the south comprising a pair of rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) having modern mild steel gate.

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 Ballybulgan, 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 Ballybulgan.

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

Name

Ballybulgan

Area

705,586 m² (70.56 ha, 174.35 acres)

Civil parish

Drumhome, and its townlands

Barony

Tirhugh

Electoral division

Ballintra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

772 people lived in 281 households in the Ballintra electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumchory Glebe, Drumnacroil, Kilgole, Lacklom, Mullanacross

Placenames

Ballybulgan 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.