Ballinaboy

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinaboy, from 22 m² to 221,620 m² (22.16 ha, 54.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinaboy 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Refused

  for the construction of a new storage shed as well as all associated site works and ancillary services. This application will be accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660503

• 28 Jun 2025Conditional

  to a) Decommission of existing septic tank and the installation of a new sewage treatment system. b) Decommission existing vehicular entrance and the construction of a new entrance driveway to existing dwelling & c) all ancillary site works and site services. This application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560860

• 6 Aug 2020Refused

  to [1] construct a new side elevation extension to the existing house [2] external and internal alterations to existing house [3] installation of new effluent treatment system and polishing filter [4] proposed alterations to existing vehicle site entrance as well as all associated works and site services. This applications is accompanied by an NIS Statement

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201090

• 19 Dec 2019Refused

  to (1) construct a new side elevation extension to the existing house (2) external and internal alterations to existing house (3) installation of new effluent treatment system and polishing filter (4) alter and up-grade existing vehicle site entrance as well as all associated site works. This planning application is accompanied by a NIS, as required by Article 239 of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001 (as amended). Gross floor space of proposed works: 99.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 46.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191973

• 26 Sept 2019Refused

  to (1) demolish existing rear and side elevations of existing house and construct new rear and side singe storey extensions (2) demolish existing porch and replace with new porch (3) proposed external and internal alterations to existing house (4) construct new side elevation extension to existing domestic garage as well as external alterations to existing domestic garage (5) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with a effluent treatment system and polishing filter as well as all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 52.00 sqm (House), 38.00 sqm (Shed). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 57.00 sqm (House), 16.00 sqm (Shed). Gross floor space of any demolition: 21.00 sqm (House), 8.00 sqm (Shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191491

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  to demolish an existing extension and to construct a new extension to the rear of the dwelling house at Ballinaboy House, (the original main house is a protected structure). Gross floor space of proposed works 32sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition work 16sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18812

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  to add a wheelchair accessible bathroom and two skylights to an existing dwelling house, previously granted (Ref 24321) Gross floor space 5m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18735

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  to (1) construct a new extension to the west elevation of the existing dwellinghouse (2) proposed external and internal alterations to existing dwellinghouse (3) proposed domestic garage and new access road to the rear of the existing dwellinghouse (4) replace existing septic tank and percolation area with new treatment system with polishing filter (5) proposed alterations to existing site entrance as well as all ancillary site works (Gross floor space proposed 254sm;retained 69sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171259

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: Connemara Bog Complex SAC 002034
• Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074

Recorded monuments

• GA035-012 Country house
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Pier/jetty, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding trapezoidal-plan limestone quay, built c.1850, having battered rubble walls and additional rubble slipway to south, creating small harbour within sheltered cove. Ruinous rubble-stone copings and paving to pier. Slipway has slightly battered walls with rubble copings and paving and extending into bay with ruinous boathouse/shelter to north having rubble walls.

• Ballinaboy House, house, 1840–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay house having single-storey front elevation and two-storey sides and rear, built c.1844, having two-bay side elevations, gabled porch to front, recent single-storey lean-to addition to rear and two-storey flat-roof addition c.1964 to south-east. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Corrugated-iron roof to lean-to addition. Painted rendered walls with plinth. Square-headed window openings having painted sills, eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows to front and north-west elevations, bipartite square-headed window opening over entrance doorway with round-headed four-pane lights and round-headed openings to sides of porch having painted sills, four-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with fanlights. Replacement timber and uPVC windows to rear elevation and ground floor of north-west elevation. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone and concrete steps and double-leaf carved timber panelled door having margined fanlight. Battened timber and timber glazed doors to rear openings. Outbuildings to rear converted into guest accommodation. Cast-iron piers with wrought-iron railing, and trees to laneway. Rubble-stone boundary walls with concrete coping with rubble-stone piers with concrete coping and wrought-iron gates.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballinaboy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballinaboy · Béal Átha na Bá

Area

1,173,820 m² (117.38 ha, 290.06 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Errislannan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Errislannan electoral division: 234 people in 84 households; 83% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 51% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Derrigimlagh, Maum

Placenames

Ballinaboy 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.