Balling

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balling, from 189 m² to 115,272 m² (11.53 ha, 28.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Balling 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.

• 8 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a sheep shed, effluent holding tank and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1268 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21129

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  for change of house and garage design and revision of house, garage and treatment unit position on site to previously approved planning permission (Ref: 17/371). Gross floor space of proposed works: House -239 sqm, Garage - 37.88 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191674

• 21 Mar 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage (Gross floor space of proposed works: 223 sqm Dwelling; 40 sqm Garage).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17371

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balling.

Recorded monuments

• GA007-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 28m) defined by a bank from NW to E; elsewhere a degraded scarp, overlain by a field boundary from SE to SW, forms the enclosing element. A ringfort (GA007-016----) lies c. 170m toNNE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse. The fosse is present from NW to NE and from SE to SW. Field boundaries cut the monument at NE and SE and at NNW and SW. Another curving field boundary running just outside the fosse, from NNW to NNE and from SE to SW, could overlie an outer bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by a bank from SE through W to N. No visible surface trace survives from N to ESE and a field wall overlies it at SE. An external fosse survives from W to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA007-018 House - 18th/19th century
  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 Balling.

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 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 Balling.

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

Name

Balling · Baile Uí Fhinn

Area

706,954 m² (70.7 ha, 174.69 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Toberroe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toberroe electoral division: 315 people in 120 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardagh, Newtown, Oughtagh, Toberroe East

Placenames

Balling 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.