Ballinafad

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinafad, from 172 m² to 1,444,796 m² (144.48 ha, 357.02 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballinafad 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.

• 14 Nov 2019Conditional

  for the extension of an existing dwelling house, construction of a new site entrance with internal access road, installation of a new proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 163 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191763

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: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC 002031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex 002034
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex 002031

Recorded monuments

• GA037-001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA037-001001 Church
  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

• Ballinafad National School, school, 1820–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey T-plan former school, built 1830, with central two-bay entrance projection to front added 1925. Now in use as house. Pitched replacement artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystack and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Painted rendered walls, plinth and painted limestone date plaque to front of projection and with rendered soffit to eaves. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills, six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to front and rear elevations, fixed timber windows with single-pane awnings to projection. Square-headed door openings to sides of projection having stone steps and battened timber doors. Rubble stone and timber boundary walls with rubble gate piers having concrete capping and decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gate.

• Lisnabrucka, house, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay single-storey house, built 1910, with dormer attic storey, having seven-bay basement block, and having advanced two-bay ends to front. Mansard slate roof with gable-fronted dormers, rendered chimneystacks, and cast-iron and replacement uPVC rainwater goods. Pebbledashed (quartz) walls with rendered plinth having concrete columns with Ionic capitals supporting projecting eaves. Square-headed window openings having moulded concrete sills and timber sliding sash windows, eight-over-twelve pane to ground floor front, four-over-four pane to east elevation, eight-over-eight pane to dormer windows and bipartite eight-over-eight pane to rear elevation dormer windows. Round-headed door opening to front within render door comprising Tuscan columns on rectangular plinths with unadorned consoles carrying open-bed pediment. Limestone stepped approach with timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Square-headed window openings to side elevations comprise twelve-over-twelve pane timber sliding sash windows with panelled timber base. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with timber doorcase comprising timber panelled door with flanking timber glazed sidelights and tripartite overlight. Basement block comprising flat roof doubling as walkway/veranda with rendered parapet wall having rendered pilasters and coping. Pebbledashed (quartz) wall to rear elevation, rendered walls to east and west elevations and rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings having concrete sills and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with timber doorcase having timber glazed door flanked by timber glazed sidelights with overlight. Extensive gardens to north-west and east. Entrance gates comprising rusticated coursed limestone piers with tooled limestone pyramidal capping, coursed rubble limestone flanking walls, and decorative wrought-iron pedestrian gates. Three-bay single-storey gate lodge inside west side of gate and having projection gabled porch, hipped tiled roof, rendered chimneystack, and rendered walls with replacement square-headed windows. Coursed rubble stone boundary walls with rusticated stone piers 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 20 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 Ballinafad.

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

Name

Ballinafad · Béal an Átha Fada

Area

3,058,103 m² (305.81 ha, 755.67 acres)

Civil parish

Moyrus, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Bencorr, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bencorr electoral division: 219 people in 55 households; 72% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 39% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athry, Cloonbeg, Cloonisle, Derryadd West, Derrynavglaun, Glencoaghan, Killeen

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballinafad 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.