Ballingarry

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingarry, from 290 m² to 303,679 m² (30.37 ha, 75.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballingarry 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.

• 16 Feb 2024Conditional

  to construct a four bay slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 196sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2455

• 15 Sept 2022Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling house (217m²), domestic garage (50m²), sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all ancillary works.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260932

• 19 May 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works; 117.05sqm (dwelling house) and 35sqm (garage) = 152.10 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260500

• 3 Sept 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment system and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145.5 sqm (House), 51.1 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201240

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 Ballingarry.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-003 Cross
  Description

  Some 5m to the W of a holy well (GA105-003001-). This small, crudely hewn, equal-armed limestone cross (H 0.75m; T 0.12m; Wth across arms 0.4m) is set in the grassy sward. The arms and head have slightly expanded terminals. The N face bears the following inscription: ‘O BLESSED TRINITY HAVE MERCY ON US HOLY ANGELS PRAY FOR US [?]1734’. A medieval cross-slab (GA105-003002-) and a fragment of a window mullion (GA103-003003-) lie on the ground beside it. (SMR file; McCaffrey 1952, 253, no. 23a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 November 2022

• GA105-003001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On the S bank of a small stream. This spring well was surrounded by the remains of a rectangular wellhouse (ext. dims. 2.44m E-W; c. 2m N-S) constructed of mortared stone walls (Wth 0.46m-0.53; max. ext. H 0.5m). The S wall was built against the trunk of a mature tree. The entrance (Wth 0.86m), centrally placed in the N wall, was flanked on either side by small square recesses, both of which contained coins. Water flowed from the well, through a stone channel (Wth 0.3m), in a NNE direction before joining the stream. Though open to the sky, the structure may once have been roofed (SMR file, 1954). A cross (GA105-003----) stood c. 5m to the W beside which were a recumbent cross-slab (GA105-003002-) and architectural fragment (GA105-003003-). Faint traces of a hollow to the S of well may mark the line of an older course of the stream. (McCaffrey 1952, 253, no. 23a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 November 2022

• GA105-003002 Cross-slab
  Description

  This cross-slab is located 5m to the W of a holy well (GA105-00300) and is lying adjacent to an 18th-century cross (GA105-003----). Described by Higgins (1987, ii, 355, no. 78) as a rectangular limestone slab (L 0.66m; Wth 0.26m; T 0.05-0.07m), now recumbent. Its upper half bears a Greek cross ‘formed from four recessed segments of a circle’. The recesses are deeply pocked. Other areas of this face of the slab had also been worked to flatten irregularities. There was some evidence of trimming on the sides and the back of the slab was rough. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Edited by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 16 November 2022

• GA105-003003 Architectural fragment
  Description

  Set in the ground beside an 18th-century stone cross (GA105-003----). This architectural fragment (H 0.72m; Wth 0.3 at base; 0.14m at top) appears to be the mullion of a late-medieval window. One side of it bears a two-pronged fork-like pattern in low relief. While the original location of the fragment is not known, it could possibly be from the ruined tower house (GA105-104---) c. 230m to the WNW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 November 2022

• GA105-004001 Moated 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.

• GA105-004002 Castle - unclassified
  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.

• GA105-006 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.

• GA105-007 Country house
  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

• Catholic Church of the Nativity, church/chapel, 1840–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding single-cell Roman Catholic church, dated 1841, with bellcote dated 1881, having altar to east end. Four-bay nave, having gabled entrance porch to west end of south (road) elevation of nave, and later single-bay sacristy extension to east gable. Pitched slate roof, scalloped ridge at west gable. Limestone ashlar openwork gabled bellcote having cross finial, pointed arch opening supported by chamfered square-plan piers over stepped brackets, with trefoil-headed recess below opening having shield motif and date-stone. Wet-dashed rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Rock-faced rusticated snecked sandstone walls to porch having tooled limestone eaves course on curved limestone brackets with tooled limestone cross finial, carved limestone string course and limestone ashlar pier buttresses. Pointed arch window openings with tooled limestone sills having leaded and stained-glass windows with Y-tracery. Square-headed loop window openings to porch with chamfered limestone surrounds. Oculus window opening to west gable with tooled limestone surround, alternating rock-faced and cut-stone voussoirs and tooled circular tracery mullions. Pointed arch door opening to porch, with tooled chamfered limestone surround, and double-leaf timber battened door. Elliptical-arched original door opening internally with dressed limestone surround and decorative panel with star motif and having rectangular carved limestone plaque 'This chapel was erected by the Revd Michael Burke PP 1841'. Tooled limestone hexagonal-plan wall mounted holy water stoup to window embrasure in porch. Open scissors-truss timber roof with wrought-iron tie bars, having hanging posts on painted stone corbels. Marble altar and reredos. Wooden Stations of the Cross and confessionals.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballingarry.

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

Name

Ballingarry · Baile an Gharraí

Area

1,328,199 m² (132.82 ha, 328.21 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilchreest electoral division: 307 people in 111 households; 89% of households own their home; 16% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Ballynacurragh, Ballynagran, Gortnamackan, Kilchreest, Killaspugmoylan, Raheen Oughter, Reaskrevagh

Placenames

Ballingarry 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.