Ballinaleama

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinaleama, from 68,944 m² (6.89 ha, 17.04 acres) to 311,108 m² (31.11 ha, 76.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 3 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 Ballinaleama 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinaleama in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Slyne Head Peninsula SAC 002074
• Special Area of Conservation: Slyne Head Islands SAC 000328
• Special Protection Area: Connemara Islands SPA 004159
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Peninsula 002074
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Slyne Head Islands 000328

Recorded monuments

• GA048-002 Midden
  Description

  Amongst the sand-dunes at SW end of the peninsula which terminates in the island archipelago of Slyne Head. An extensive series of middens exposed in the eroding faces and basins of the dunes. Layered deposits containing charcoal, burnt stones and a wide variety of shells including periwinkle, whelk and broken limpets are visible, as are a number of walls and a possible hut. The 'circular ... stone hut' noted by Praeger (1980, 167) 'near Slyne Head' may have been located in this area. (Killanin 1954, 94; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 94) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA048-002001 Hut site
  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.

• GA048-002002 Field boundary
  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

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

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 moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinaleama · Baile na Léime

Area

493,056 m² (49.31 ha, 121.84 acres)

Civil parish

Ballindoon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballynahinch

Electoral division

Doonloughan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Doonloughan electoral division: 97 people in 39 households; 79% of households own their home; 14% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 56% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Keerhaunmore

Placenames

Ballinaleama 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.