Ballylennan

63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylennan, from 96 m² to 328,289 m² (32.83 ha, 81.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballylennan 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.

• 11 Aug 2026N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A 2-STOREY DETACHED DWELLING, INSTALLATION OF A SEPARATE ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2661492

• 23 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE UTILISING ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560834

• 13 May 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE UTILISING ALL EXISTING SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2560762

• 11 May 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA ALONG WITH ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2560742

• 22 Oct 2024Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE TO THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (REG. REF. NO. 22/50403 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461670

• 9 Oct 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED (REG. REF. NO.: 22/50404 REFERS)

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2461588

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250403

• 9 Mar 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO PROPOSED SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250404

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL DRY SHED

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151593

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150563

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 Ballylennan.

Recorded monuments

• DG062-020 Souterrain
  Description

  There is no sign of the 'cave' marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map. The site is located on good land high up with extensive views. 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

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

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 Ballylennan, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1925 (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 Ballylennan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Ballylennan · Baile Uí Leannáin

Area

1,358,894 m² (135.89 ha, 335.79 acres)

Civil parish

Taughboyne, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe North

Electoral division

Feddyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

456 people lived in 164 households in the Feddyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboe, Binnion, Drumcrow, Drumleene, Drummucklagh, Legnatraw, Lettergull, Listannagh

Placenames

Ballylennan 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.