# Ballinafad, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Moyrus, barony of Ballynahinch, Co. Galway; in Irish Béal an Átha Fada. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 3,058,103 m² (305.81 ha, 755.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,764 m² (1.08 ha, 2.66 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Moyrus, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/moyrus.md - Barony: Ballynahinch - Electoral division: Bencorr, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Gaeltacht: in an Irish-speaking area - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/18052 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60195 - Centre: latitude 53.455648, longitude -9.819616 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinafad, from 172 m² to 1,444,796 m² (144.48 ha, 357.02 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1956311: 1,444,796 m² (144.48 ha, 357.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956311.md - Parcel 1956300: 405,002 m² (40.5 ha, 100.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956300.md - Parcel 5954845: 238,413 m² (23.84 ha, 58.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5954845.md - Parcel 1994755: 117,348 m² (11.73 ha, 29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994755.md - Parcel 1956317: 92,768 m² (9.28 ha, 22.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956317.md - Parcel 2112863: 61,339 m² (6.13 ha, 15.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112863.md - Parcel 1956316: 49,217 m² (4.92 ha, 12.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956316.md - Parcel 1956299: 46,743 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956299.md - Parcel 1994760: 45,655 m² (4.57 ha, 11.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994760.md - Parcel 1956304: 36,616 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956304.md - Parcel 1956305: 32,387 m² (3.24 ha, 8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956305.md - Parcel 5862247: 26,949 m² (2.69 ha, 6.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5862247.md - Parcel 1994758: 25,307 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994758.md - Parcel 1956310: 22,732 m² (2.27 ha, 5.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956310.md - Parcel 1956306: 22,153 m² (2.22 ha, 5.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956306.md - Parcel 1994756: 19,502 m² (1.95 ha, 4.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994756.md - Parcel 1956314: 14,929 m² (1.49 ha, 3.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956314.md - Parcel 1956309: 11,856 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956309.md - Parcel 1994757: 9,673 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994757.md - Parcel 4456072: 6,373 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456072.md - Parcel 1956303: 5,380 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956303.md - Parcel 1956308: 4,919 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956308.md - Parcel 1994759: 3,440 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994759.md - Parcel 1956407: 3,059 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956407.md - Parcel 1994662: 1,959 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994662.md - Parcel 1994753: 1,846 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994753.md - Parcel 1956315: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956315.md - Parcel 1956302: 1,550 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956302.md - Parcel 5277190: 1,450 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5277190.md - Parcel 1956298: 1,384 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956298.md - Parcel 1956313: 1,298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956313.md - Parcel 1956312: 1,225 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956312.md - Parcel 1956301: 1,217 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1956301.md - Parcel 4456071: 1,162 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4456071.md - Parcel 1994754: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1994754.md - Parcel 5281682: 172 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5281682.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 14 Nov 2019, Galway County Council 191763: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191763/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Connemara Bog Complex SAC, site code 002034, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002034 - Special Area of Conservation: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex SAC, site code 002031, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002031 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Connemara Bog Complex, site code 002034 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: The Twelve Bens/Garraun Complex, site code 002031 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA037-001: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA037-001----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA037-001001-. 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. 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) - Ballinafad National School, school, 1820–1930, Regional interest, registry number 30403702, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30403702. 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, registry number 30403706, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30403706. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/ballinafad.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinafad.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballinafad.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballinafad 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) - Athry: https://everytownland.com/galway/athry.md - Cloonbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonbeg-61198.md - Cloonisle: https://everytownland.com/galway/cloonisle.md - Derryadd West: https://everytownland.com/galway/derryadd-west.md - Derrynavglaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/derrynavglaun.md - Glencoaghan: https://everytownland.com/galway/glencoaghan.md - Killeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/killeen-62642.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/ballinafad - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballinafad