# Balling, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill, barony of Ballymoe, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Uí Fhinn.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 706,954 m² (70.7 ha, 174.69 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 19,571 m² (1.96 ha, 4.84 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballynakill, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill.md
- Barony: Ballymoe
- Electoral division: Toberroe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 315 people lived in 120 households in the Toberroe electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19130
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60206
- Centre: latitude 53.650564, longitude -8.467264 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balling, from 189 m² to 115,272 m² (11.53 ha, 28.48 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1987945: 115,272 m² (11.53 ha, 28.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987945.md
- Parcel 1962688: 92,310 m² (9.23 ha, 22.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962688.md
- Parcel 1987947: 74,918 m² (7.49 ha, 18.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987947.md
- Parcel 1987951: 50,289 m² (5.03 ha, 12.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987951.md
- Parcel 1987953: 49,483 m² (4.95 ha, 12.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987953.md
- Parcel 1987949: 37,792 m² (3.78 ha, 9.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987949.md
- Parcel 1962695: 35,141 m² (3.51 ha, 8.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962695.md
- Parcel 1962691: 33,612 m² (3.36 ha, 8.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962691.md
- Parcel 1962689: 30,159 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962689.md
- Parcel 1962692: 29,932 m² (2.99 ha, 7.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962692.md
- Parcel 6070577: 22,039 m² (2.2 ha, 5.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6070577.md
- Parcel 1962694: 21,515 m² (2.15 ha, 5.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962694.md
- Parcel 1987946: 20,414 m² (2.04 ha, 5.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987946.md
- Parcel 2587744: 18,728 m² (1.87 ha, 4.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2587744.md
- Parcel 4772885: 17,548 m² (1.75 ha, 4.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4772885.md
- Parcel 6096502: 13,819 m² (1.38 ha, 3.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6096502.md
- Parcel 1987952: 10,484 m² (1.05 ha, 2.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987952.md
- Parcel 1962690: 8,948 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1962690.md
- Parcel 2536469: 5,619 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2536469.md
- Parcel 4772889: 4,344 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4772889.md
- Parcel 4651069: 4,015 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651069.md
- Parcel 4651131: 2,044 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651131.md
- Parcel 4651115: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4651115.md
- Parcel 6096548: 2,011 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6096548.md
- Parcel 1987948: 980 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987948.md
- Parcel 1987950: 189 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1987950.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

3 applications, newest first.

- 8 Feb 2021, Galway County Council 21129: Conditional. Permission. for the construction of a sheep shed, effluent holding tank and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1268 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21129/0
- 29 Oct 2019, Galway County Council 191674: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191674/0
- 21 Mar 2017, Galway County Council 17371: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage (Gross floor space of proposed works: 223 sqm Dwelling; 40 sqm Garage).. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/17371/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA007-015: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-015----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA007-018----. 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)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Balling, about 1 in 5 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- 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, 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/balling.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/balling.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/balling.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Balling 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)

- Ardagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/ardagh-60091.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/galway/newtown-63437.md
- Oughtagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/oughtagh.md
- Toberroe East: https://everytownland.com/galway/toberroe-east.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.

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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/balling
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