Ballard

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 333 m² to 467,685 m² (46.77 ha, 115.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballard 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.

• 20 Sept 2023Conditional

  of attic conversion with velux window & retention of detached garage

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361123

• 27 Jul 2023N/a

  of attic conversion with velux window & retention of detached garage

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2360867

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA026-022 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In an area of bogland and outcropping rock on the summit of Ben Levy, overlooking a small lake to the NW. This subcircular cairn (diam. c. 10m; H c. 4m), constructed of loose stone, is fairly well preserved. Six large boulders evident near its base in the E sector appear to have been thrown there. On the summit some of the cairn material has been used to construct a small enclosure (diam. c. 1m; H c. 1m). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 February 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballard, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballard · An Baile Ard

Area

1,024,610 m² (102.46 ha, 253.19 acres)

Civil parish

Cong, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyweeaun, Carrick East, Gortnarup, Tumneenaun

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballard 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.