Ballymaleel

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaleel, from 18 m² to 222,011 m² (22.2 ha, 54.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymaleel 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.

• 26 Jun 2025Conditional

  OVERFLOW CARPARK WHICH SERVES LETTERKENNY ACTIVITY CENTRE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2561076

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR SECONDARY TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS GENERATED. THE EXISTING WASTEWATER SEPTIC TANK WILL BE RETAINED, AND A NEW PUMP AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLED. THE EXISTING ACTIVATED SLUDGE PACKAGE PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED. NEW PIPEWORK AT THE SEPTIC TANK WILL BE INSTALLED TO CONVEY WASTEWATERS FROM THE HOTEL, SPA AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS TO THE ICW FOR TREATMENT. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND WILL DISCHARGE VIA PIPEWORK TO THE UNNAMED STREAM (IE_NW_39K240610 SEGMENT_CODE: 39_1259) A TRIBUTARY OF THE BALLYMALEEL STREAM WITHIN THE SILVER TASSIE HOTEL AND SPA OWNERSHIP BOUNDARY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350349

• 27 Feb 2023N/a

  INSTALLATION OF AN INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND (ICW) FOR SECONDARY TREATMENT OF WASTEWATERS GENERATED. THE EXISTING WASTEWATER SEPTIC TANK WILL BE RETAINED, AND A NEW PUMP AND ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE INSTALLED. THE EXISTING ACTIVATED SLUDGE PACKAGE PLANT AND POLISHING FILTER WILL BE DECOMMISSIONED. NEW PIPEWORK AT THE SEPTIC TANK WILL BE INSTALLED TO CONVEY WASTEWATERS FROM THE HOTEL, SPA AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS TO THE ICW FOR TREATMENT. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED CONSTRUCTED WETLAND WILL DISCHARGE VIA PIPEWORK TO THE UNNAMED STREAM (IE_NW_39K240610 SEGMENT_CODE: 39_1259) A TRIBUTARY OF THE BALLYMALEEL STREAM WITHIN THE SILVER TASSIE HOTEL AND SPA OWNERSHIP BOUNDARY. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350227

• 2 Jul 2021Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A PART SINGLE STOREY, PART STOREY AND A HALF DETACHED DOMESTIC DWELLING, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROVISION OF A WATERWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Outline permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2151321

• 22 Jun 2020Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE WITH GARAGE & SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050812

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  (1) A SMOKING AREA WITH SLATE ROOF AND STONE CLAD PILLARS AND (2) A 1.0 METER WIDE GLASS CANOPY OVER THE 'SHOP FRONT' CLADDING AROUND THE BAR ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850348

• 28 Feb 2018N/a

  ERECTION OF A SMOKING AREA AND A GLASS CANOPY TO THE FRONT OF THE EXISTING SILVER HOTEL TASSIE. THE DEVELOPMENT CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: (1) A SMOKING AREA WITH SLATE ROOF & STONE CLAD PILLARS AND (2) A 1.0 METER WIDE GLASS CANOPY OVER THE 'SHOP FRONT' CLADDING AROUND THE BAR ENTRANCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1850289

• 6 Nov 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1751676

• 7 Jun 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH ATTIC STORAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750874

• 10 Feb 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF A MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750186

• 20 Jan 2017N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL BUILDING COMPRISING OF A MAIN STREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750079

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 Ballymaleel.

Recorded monuments

• DG053-013 Standing stone
  Description

  A standing stone c. 1.52m high × 0.35m wide × 0.3m thick. The top of the stone has a modern cement capping into which an iron bar has been set. Situated in good land on a prominent 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. The monument was inspected in 2012 and was found to be in the same condition as recorded above. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.

• Ballymaleel, Letterkenny7 sales

Name

Ballymaleel · Baile Uí Mhaolaíola

Area

636,249 m² (63.62 ha, 157.22 acres)

Civil parish

Aghanunshin, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Castlewray, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlewray electoral division: 3,681 people in 1,340 households; 83% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalenty, Ballyboencurragh, Castlewray, Deenystown, Drumnaskea, Lisnanees Lower, Lisnanees Upper, Loughnagin, Roughpark

Placenames

Ballymaleel 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.