Ballinphuill

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinphuill, from 2,205 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres) to 342,291 m² (34.23 ha, 84.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballinphuill 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 Ballinphuill 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

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

Recorded monuments

• GA030-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NW-facing slope in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (NE-SW c. 30m, NW-SE c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives. A ringfort (GA030-003----) lies c. 200m to SE. 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

• GA030-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hill, in grassland overlooking marshy ground to N. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 34.5m, N-S 31.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A scarp forms the inner enclosing element at NE. The outer bank is present from WSW to N and from NE to SSE. Well-defined entrance at NE. An enclosure (GA030-002----) lies c.200m to NW and a ringfort (GA030-004----) c. 250m to SE. 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

• GA030-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Close to a hill summit, in grassland overlooking marshy ground to N. Well-preserved oval rath (E-W 41.5m, N-S 34.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from W through N to SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse does not survive from ESE to SSE where quarrying has encroached upon the monument. There is an entrance at E. A ringfort (GA030-003----) lies c. 250m to NW. 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

• GA030-005 Ritual site - holy tree/bush
  Description

  In flat marshy grassland. A large thorn bush is locally regarded as sacred; a famine victim is reputedly buried beneath it. A large stone beside the bush is said to be the headstone. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballinphuill.

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

Name

Ballinphuill · Baile an Phoill

Area

619,168 m² (61.92 ha, 153 acres)

Civil parish

Tuam, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Carrowrevagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Carrowrevagh electoral division: 485 people in 162 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowntanlis, Knockaloura West, Rahogarty North, Rahogarty South

Placenames

Ballinphuill 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.