# Ballaghbaun, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Belclare, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish An Bealach Bán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,092,983 m² (109.3 ha, 270.08 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 16,182 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Belclare, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/belclare.md - Barony: Clare - Electoral division: Claretuam, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,132 people lived in 394 households in the Claretuam electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/21460 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60183 - Centre: latitude 53.474631, longitude -8.941641 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghbaun, from 750 m² to 188,257 m² (18.83 ha, 46.52 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2040572: 188,257 m² (18.83 ha, 46.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040572.md - Parcel 2744720: 155,759 m² (15.58 ha, 38.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744720.md - Parcel 2089208: 111,397 m² (11.14 ha, 27.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089208.md - Parcel 2089220: 102,465 m² (10.25 ha, 25.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089220.md - Parcel 2089210: 97,942 m² (9.79 ha, 24.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089210.md - Parcel 2089209: 63,447 m² (6.34 ha, 15.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089209.md - Parcel 2114286: 60,930 m² (6.09 ha, 15.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2114286.md - Parcel 2040579: 57,345 m² (5.73 ha, 14.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040579.md - Parcel 2089219: 48,622 m² (4.86 ha, 12.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089219.md - Parcel 2040574: 41,798 m² (4.18 ha, 10.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040574.md - Parcel 2040578: 33,954 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040578.md - Parcel 2089217: 27,776 m² (2.78 ha, 6.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089217.md - Parcel 2089215: 24,851 m² (2.49 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089215.md - Parcel 2089216: 22,547 m² (2.25 ha, 5.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089216.md - Parcel 2089214: 16,182 m² (1.62 ha, 4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089214.md - Parcel 2040573: 8,168 m² (0.82 ha, 2.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040573.md - Parcel 2040576: 3,407 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040576.md - Parcel 4638966: 2,769 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4638966.md - Parcel 2089211: 2,635 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089211.md - Parcel 4767974: 2,625 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4767974.md - Parcel 2040577: 2,421 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040577.md - Parcel 5494612: 2,396 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5494612.md - Parcel 2089213: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089213.md - Parcel 4716609: 2,240 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4716609.md - Parcel 4630697: 2,234 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4630697.md - Parcel 2040575: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2040575.md - Parcel 5360062: 2,201 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5360062.md - Parcel 2089218: 1,844 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089218.md - Parcel 2089212: 750 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2089212.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghbaun in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 20 Dec 2021, Galway County Council 212445: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and polishing filter, new vehicular entrance as well as all ancillary site works and site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 230.75 sqm + 55sqm = 285.75 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/212445/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballaghbaun. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghbaun. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghbaun. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballaghbaun, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaghbaun. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballaghbaun.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballaghbaun.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballaghbaun.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballaghbaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydotia East: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydotia-east.md - Ballydotia West: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydotia-west.md - Caherhugh: https://everytownland.com/galway/caherhugh.md - Carheens: https://everytownland.com/galway/carheens.md - Cartron: https://everytownland.com/galway/cartron-61054.md - Knockacarrigeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/knockacarrigeen.md - Levally: https://everytownland.com/galway/levally.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballaghbaun - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballaghbaun