Ballintober
Townland in the civil parish of Cummer, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile an Tobair
- Area
- 82.5 ha
- 204 acres
- Land parcels
- 76
- registered freehold, median 2,978 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober, from 93 m² to 86,301 m² (8.63 ha, 21.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 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 Ballintober 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
18 Feb 2026Conditional
of the existing storage shed and all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660257
6 Nov 2025Conditional
for construction of front porch and conversion of an existing attic space including construction of two dormer windows to front elevation
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561617
8 Dec 2023Conditional
of existing dwelling, garage and all associated works previously approved under pl. refs. 07/350 and 08/3704 on a site with revised site boundaries. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 168.8 sqm (house) & 23.8 sqm (garage)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361471
13 Sept 2022Conditional
for change of house plans to those previously approved under Planning Register Reference No. 21/305. Gross floor space of proposed works is: 271.75sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221045
5 Mar 2021Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage, proprietary wastewater treatment system along with ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 252 sqm, Garage: 59.22 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21305
22 May 2020Conditional
for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works, 298.3sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20627
19 Sept 2019Conditional
to complete enlarged utility rooms with minor elevational changes to house nos. 24 & 28, previously approved under planning ref. no.'s 06/3317, EOD 11/744 & eod 17/1272. Gross floor space of work to be retained: No. 24 - 186.7 sqm, No. 28 - 186.7 sqm
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 191451
18 Jun 2018Conditional
for extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling house to include part demolition of existing sunroom. Gross floor space of proposed works 34.5sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18830
31 May 2018Conditional
and 1) completion of enlarged utility room to rear of house No. 17 Cloch Chora and 2) retain and complete changes and relocation of approved dwelling house at no.11Cloch Chora (previously approved under Planning Ref. No. 06/3317, EOD 11/744 & EOD 17/1272). Gross floor space of proposed works (No. 11) 370 sqm. (No. 17) 458 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained (No. 11) 201 sqm. (No. 17) 186.70 sqm.
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 18736
24 Aug 2017Conditional
to construct 30 no. detached dwelling houses with waste water treatment plant, polishing filter, roads and all associated services (gross floor area 4737sqm)(previous pl. ref. 06/3317 & 11/744)
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 171272
5 May 2017Conditional
to retain and complete a partially constructed housing development including waste water treatment plant, polishing filters, roads and all associated services as approved under planning reg. ref. no's 06/3317 & (EOD) 11/744 at "Cloch Chora" Ballybanagher, Corofin, Co. Galway. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 2362 sqm.)
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17629
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintober.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintober.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintober.
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 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_711 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballintober with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintober · Baile an Tobair
- Area
- 825,125 m² (82.51 ha, 203.89 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cummer, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Kilmoylan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilmoylan electoral division: 1,171 people in 372 households; 92% of households own their home; 48% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardskea Beg, Ardskea More, Ballybanagher, Ballynacreg South, Brockagh
- Placenames
- Ballintober 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.