Ballinlawless
Townland in the civil parish of Kilteskill, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile an Laighléisigh
- Area
- 526 ha
- 1,300 acres
- Land parcels
- 87
- registered freehold, median 21,120 m² (2.11 ha, 5.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlawless, from 51 m² to 432,054 m² (43.21 ha, 106.76 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 57 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlawless 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
10 Jan 2025Conditional
and completion of a dwelling house and garage on revised site boundaries. Previous planning permission 21/2454. Gross floor area of proposed works: 291 sqm(house) & 46 sqm(garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560014
17 Jul 2023N/a
& completion of a dwellinghouse & garage on revised site boundaries, previous planning permission 21/2454
Retention · Galway County Council, 2360798
21 Dec 2021Conditional
for development consisting of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, domestic garage and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 281 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212454
15 May 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 250.11 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19728
3 Oct 2018Conditional
for the change of house design to that previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 18/330 and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works - 222.5 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181386
20 Mar 2018Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 208 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18330
2 Aug 2017N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 239sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 171169
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- GA115-001 Children's burial ground
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.
- GA116-007 Quarry
Description
This is a disused quarry. It is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2015
Architectural heritage
- Cullenagh Bridge, bridge, 1750–1790 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch limestone road bridge over River Owenaglanna, built c.1770. Snecked dressed walls and parapets, having tooled copings. Round arch with tooled voussoirs. Battered snecked dressed walls to raised causeway approach road, having lighter-coloured limestone and vertical rubble coping stones.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 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 Ballinlawless.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinlawless with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinlawless · Baile an Laighléisigh
- Area
- 5,259,963 m² (526 ha, 1,299.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilteskill, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Kilteskill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilteskill electoral division: 393 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aille, Ballyeighter, Ballymerret, Commons, Cossaunaclamper, Cullenagh, Dalystown Demesne, Drummin, Knockaunbaun, Kyleaglannawood, Lisheenaleen, Srahaunananta, Tooreen North
- Placenames
- Ballinlawless 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.