Ballymagowan Lower

51 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymagowan Lower, from 8 m² to 298,385 m² (29.84 ha, 73.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballymagowan Lower 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.

• 31 Oct 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE CONSTRUCTED WITH DEFECTIVE CONCRETE BLOCKWORK AND CONSTRUCTION OF A REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE INCORPORATING A SELF-CONTAINED RESIDENTIAL ANNEX AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 2 homes · Donegal County Council, 2561895

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH CONVERTED ROOF SPACE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561883

• 24 Oct 2025N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING WITH CONVERTED ROOF SPACE, DETACHED GARAGE, NEW SITE ENTRANCE AND INSTALLATION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561848

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE DWELLING HOUSE AND NEW ENTRANCE WITH INSTALLATION OF NEW WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561458

• 9 Jul 2025Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING (DEFECTIVE/MICA) DWELLING HOUSE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF A NEW REPLACEMENT DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2561171

• 21 Feb 2024Conditional

  (1) RELOCATION OF VEHICLE ENTRANCE TO COUNTY ROAD AS CONSTRUCTED FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/7829 AND PLANNING REF: 09/40302, (2) RELOCATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AS CONSTRUCTED FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF: 04/7829 AND PLANNING REF: 09/40302, (3) REVISED FENESTRATION TO NORTH AND WEST ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE AS CONSTRUCTED FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PLANNING REF. 09/40302, (4) FLAT ROOF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF DWELLING HOUSE, AND (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2450060

• 20 Nov 2023Conditional

  (1) DOMESTIC GARAGE, (2) ATTIC CONVERSION INCLUDING 2 NO. DORMER WINDOWS AND (3) ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2351765

• 21 Jan 2021Conditional

  ERECTION OF AN EXTENSION TO FRONT OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2150061

• 24 Sept 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A SELF CONTAINED EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051360

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF A PORCH EXTENSION AND WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY RAMP ON TO SOUTH ELEVATION OF EXISTING DWELLING

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2050758

• 24 Mar 2020Refused

  ERECTION OF A SELF CONTAINED EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050386

• 4 Mar 2020N/a

  ERECTION OF A SELF CONTAINED EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF DWELLING HOUSE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050278

• 20 Nov 2019N/a

  (1) RELOCATION OF VECHICLE ENTRANCE TO COUNTY ROAD, AS CONSTRUCTED, FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 04/7829 & 09/40302; (2) RELOCATION OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, AS CONSTRUCTED, FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 04/7829 & 09/40302; (3) ALTERATIONS OF FENESTRATION TO NORTH AND WEST ELEVATIONS OF DWELLING HOUSE, AS CONSTRUCTED, FROM THAT GRANTED UNDER PL REF: 09/40302; (4) FLAT ROOF DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE SOUTHEAST OF DWELLING HOUSE (5) ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 1951806

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 1750636

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Mulroy Bay SAC 002159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carlan Isles (Mulroy Bay) 002055

Recorded monuments

• DG017-019 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  An area, circular in plan and c. 17m across, consists of a low mound, surrounded by an earthen bank with an intervening level area. There is a possible cause-way across the level area on the E. The bank is 4m to 5m wide and reaches a maximum height of .7m at the outer edge on the W. It has been removed on the E where there is now a ruined stone wall. A pole has been set in the outer edge of the bank on the W. At a distance of c. 1m to 1.5m inside the line of the bank is a low mound, c. 0.2m in height which is approximately rectangular in plan and 3 to 4m across on top. On the E a slightly raised area about 3m wide joins the mound to a ruined field wall and appears to have formed a causeway between the mound and the bank. The removal of the bank here prevents confirmation that this was an entrance to the site. The causeway might just be spill from the bank removal. The site is at the Wedge of a N-S running ridge. There is a steady fall to the shore of Mulroy Bay c. 200m to the W. There is good grazing available. 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

• House, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay two-storey house, built c.1780, having triple arrangement of windows to one ground floor bay, two-bay gable end and two-bay slightly recessed and lower rear return, and with four-bay two-storey addition of c.1905 in line to west end, stepping uphill. Gable-fronted porch to older block, lean-to timber-frame conservatory to west wall of return, and veranda to rear. Earlier block, addition, return, veranda and porch have slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles. Cement-rendered chimneystacks to gables with concrete copings and buff clay and terracotta pots. Gables of older block have concrete copings. Black-painted cast iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber sliding sash windows, two-over-two horizontal pane to main blocks and one-over-one pane to return, latter having margined stained-glass one-over-one pane window to rear, all with ogee horns. Recent glazed timber door to porch with glazed panels to each side. Flat-bar wrought-iron pedestrian gate in rubble boundary wall leading to adjacent orchard to west. Granite and schist flagstones to front (south) of house, one inscribed 'Here lyeth the body of David Campbell who departed this life June 23rd 1810 [aged]...'. Elevated site with extensive views over Mulroy Bay. Row of three single-storey rubble outbuildings adjoining house to north with pitched corrugated-metal roofs, slate-roofed lean-to to north, and further row of three single-storey rubble outbuildings detached from house, with corrugated-metal barrel roof. All outbuildings have cast-iron rainwater goods.

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 Ballymagowan Lower, 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 Ballymagowan Lower.

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

Name

Ballymagowan Lower

Area

1,104,196 m² (110.42 ha, 272.85 acres)

Civil parish

Clondavaddog, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmacrenan

Electoral division

Carrowkeel, the unit of the census

Census 2022

881 people lived in 325 households in the Carrowkeel electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymagowan Upper, Cloghfin, Rosnakill

Placenames

Ballymagowan Lower 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.