# Ballyara, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Killoscobe, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Béal Átha an Ghearrtha. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,215,285 m² (121.53 ha, 300.3 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,428 m² (2.44 ha, 6.04 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Killoscobe, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/killoscobe.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Mounthazel, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Mounthazel electoral division: 544 people in 194 households; 91% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20559 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60252 - Centre: latitude 53.416818, longitude -8.526521 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyara, from 276 m² to 93,671 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres); 35 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1923513: 93,671 m² (9.37 ha, 23.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923513.md - Parcel 1974664: 92,910 m² (9.29 ha, 22.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974664.md - Parcel 1923510: 84,573 m² (8.46 ha, 20.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923510.md - Parcel 2113421: 81,301 m² (8.13 ha, 20.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113421.md - Parcel 1923512: 77,413 m² (7.74 ha, 19.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923512.md - Parcel 1923517: 75,103 m² (7.51 ha, 18.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923517.md - Parcel 1923511: 72,147 m² (7.21 ha, 17.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923511.md - Parcel 5271558: 70,967 m² (7.1 ha, 17.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5271558.md - Parcel 1974665: 62,123 m² (6.21 ha, 15.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974665.md - Parcel 1974651: 58,975 m² (5.9 ha, 14.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974651.md - Parcel 1974663: 55,410 m² (5.54 ha, 13.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974663.md - Parcel 1974659: 54,820 m² (5.48 ha, 13.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974659.md - Parcel 1974649: 33,572 m² (3.36 ha, 8.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974649.md - Parcel 1974660: 29,402 m² (2.94 ha, 7.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974660.md - Parcel 1974662: 28,834 m² (2.88 ha, 7.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974662.md - Parcel 1923514: 26,998 m² (2.7 ha, 6.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923514.md - Parcel 1974658: 26,665 m² (2.67 ha, 6.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974658.md - Parcel 1974648: 26,321 m² (2.63 ha, 6.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974648.md - Parcel 1974655: 25,011 m² (2.5 ha, 6.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974655.md - Parcel 1974656: 23,844 m² (2.38 ha, 5.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974656.md - Parcel 1923418: 20,588 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923418.md - Parcel 1923515: 20,420 m² (2.04 ha, 5.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923515.md - Parcel 1974661: 20,170 m² (2.02 ha, 4.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974661.md - Parcel 1923516: 17,735 m² (1.77 ha, 4.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923516.md - Parcel 1974657: 6,870 m² (0.69 ha, 1.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974657.md - Parcel 1974652: 3,970 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974652.md - Parcel 1974653: 3,817 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974653.md - Parcel 4650640: 2,313 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4650640.md - Parcel 1974666: 2,276 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974666.md - Parcel 4637639: 2,264 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4637639.md - Parcel 1923518: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923518.md - Parcel 2540908: 2,108 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2540908.md - Parcel 1923520: 2,049 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923520.md - Parcel 1923519: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923519.md - Parcel 1974647: 1,602 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974647.md - Parcel 1974650: 647 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974650.md - Parcel 1974654: 623 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974654.md - Parcel 4684438: 276 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4684438.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyara 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 8 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661149: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661149/0 - 20 Oct 2025, Galway County Council 2561540: N/a. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561540/0 - 3 Jul 2024, Galway County Council 2460821: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of fully serviced dwelling house & domestic garage on revised site boundaries and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 194.45 sqm (house) & 50 sqm (garage). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460821/0 - 21 Aug 2019, Galway County Council 191297: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. of domestic garage / fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 105.68 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/191297/0 - 24 Apr 2018, Galway County Council 18493: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, domestic garage/fuel store and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed development (house) 229.42 sqm. (garage) 59.50 sqm.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/18493/0 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 Ballyara. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA060-009: Mill - corn, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA060-009----. 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) - Mill (water), 1760–1780, Regional interest, registry number 30406006, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30406006. Detached three-bay single-storey corn mill, built c.1770, having basement and attic, and tewntieth-century lean-to single-storey open shed to rear. Now derelict. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings to gables. Coursed random rubble limestone walls with cut-stone retaining wall to terrace at front. Square-headed blocked openings with limestone flat arches above, and tooled limestone sills. Set adjacent to stream with single-storey outbuildings to north with corrugated-iron roofs. Curved limestone wheel pit to west, mill stream diverted away. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 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: Susceptibility 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 Ballyara. - 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/ballyara.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyara.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyara.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyara 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) - Aghanahil: https://everytownland.com/galway/aghanahil.md - Ashfield: https://everytownland.com/galway/ashfield-60138.md - Fairhill: https://everytownland.com/galway/fairhill.md - Killamude East: https://everytownland.com/galway/killamude-east.md - Lismoes: https://everytownland.com/galway/lismoes.md - Moneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/moneen-63323.md - Mounthazel: https://everytownland.com/galway/mounthazel.md - Moyure: https://everytownland.com/galway/moyure.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. --- 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/ballyara - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballyara