# Ballard, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Ross, Co. Galway; in Irish An Baile Ard. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,024,610 m² (102.46 ha, 253.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,424 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/cong.md - Barony: Ross - Electoral division: Cloonbur, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20603 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60189 - Centre: latitude 53.525568, longitude -9.402356 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 333 m² to 467,685 m² (46.77 ha, 115.57 acres); 17 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2472033: 467,685 m² (46.77 ha, 115.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472033.md - Parcel 1957552: 70,015 m² (7 ha, 17.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957552.md - Parcel 1993491: 58,394 m² (5.84 ha, 14.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993491.md - Parcel 1993482: 58,008 m² (5.8 ha, 14.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993482.md - Parcel 2472027: 46,275 m² (4.63 ha, 11.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472027.md - Parcel 1993487: 28,878 m² (2.89 ha, 7.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993487.md - Parcel 1993483: 28,812 m² (2.88 ha, 7.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993483.md - Parcel 1957545: 25,877 m² (2.59 ha, 6.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957545.md - Parcel 1957553: 20,887 m² (2.09 ha, 5.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957553.md - Parcel 1993484: 19,769 m² (1.98 ha, 4.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993484.md - Parcel 5435673: 19,012 m² (1.9 ha, 4.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5435673.md - Parcel 4456149: 18,240 m² (1.82 ha, 4.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456149.md - Parcel 3419532: 17,248 m² (1.72 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3419532.md - Parcel 1957548: 13,415 m² (1.34 ha, 3.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957548.md - Parcel 1957550: 13,022 m² (1.3 ha, 3.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957550.md - Parcel 1957549: 12,749 m² (1.27 ha, 3.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957549.md - Parcel 1993489: 12,149 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993489.md - Parcel 4456150: 7,702 m² (0.77 ha, 1.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456150.md - Parcel 1993486: 7,391 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993486.md - Parcel 1957544: 6,815 m² (0.68 ha, 1.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957544.md - Parcel 1993488: 6,032 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993488.md - Parcel 1993493: 5,723 m² (0.57 ha, 1.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993493.md - Parcel 5677082: 4,646 m² (0.46 ha, 1.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5677082.md - Parcel 2472024: 4,481 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2472024.md - Parcel 1993477: 4,480 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993477.md - Parcel 1993480: 4,419 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993480.md - Parcel 1957551: 4,323 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957551.md - Parcel 1993492: 4,246 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993492.md - Parcel 1993478: 4,238 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993478.md - Parcel 1957542: 4,103 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957542.md - Parcel 1957547: 3,972 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957547.md - Parcel 1993481: 3,401 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993481.md - Parcel 1993485: 2,967 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993485.md - Parcel 1957543: 2,443 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957543.md - Parcel 1993479: 1,990 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993479.md - Parcel 1957546: 1,876 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957546.md - Parcel 1957541: 1,588 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1957541.md - Parcel 5435703: 1,395 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5435703.md - Parcel 3742009: 409 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3742009.md - Parcel 1993490: 333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1993490.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 20 Sept 2023, Galway County Council 2361123: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of attic conversion with velux window & retention of detached garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2361123/0 - 27 Jul 2023, Galway County Council 2360867: N/a. Retention. of attic conversion with velux window & retention of detached garage. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360867/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC, site code 000297, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000297 - Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA, site code 004042, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004042 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib, site code 000297 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA026-022: Cairn - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA026-022----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballard. ## 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 Ballard, about 1 in 10 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 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 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/ballard.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballard.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballard.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballard 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) - Ballyweeaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyweeaun.md - Carrick East: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrick-east.md - Gortnarup: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnarup.md - Tumneenaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/tumneenaun.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/ballard - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballard