Ballyboy

119 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 39 m² to 141,366 m² (14.14 ha, 34.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Ballyboy 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.

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a fully serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258.4 sqm (House: 218.4 sqm, Garage 40 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202044

• 1 Jul 2019Conditional

  to convert existing farm store into slatted shed with cattle crush and holding pen. Gross floor space of proposed works: 111 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191005

• 29 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house, a domestic garage and sewerage treatment system with all other site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 233 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19638

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 Ballyboy.

Recorded monuments

• GA029-013001 Ecclesiastical enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in grassland overlooking bogland to S. Subcircular enclosure (NW-SE 107.6m), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. No visible surface trace survives from NNW through N to E. A field bank cuts the monument at N and ENE and also mirrors the line of the enclosure from ENE to WSW. Gaps at E, SSW and W appear to be modern. There is a CBG (GA029-013002-) in the interior. 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

• GA029-013002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Centrally placed within a probable early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA029-013001-). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an enclosed rectangular area (c. 12m by c. 5m), its long axis running E-W, with a gap midway along N side. What is visible is a rectangular area (NW-SE 6.8m, NE-SW 5.2m) delimited by a single row of limestone boulders. Within the interior are crudely shaped grave-markers, some of which are partially obscured by field-clearance rubble. Mature ash trees are growing at N and S limits. 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 Ballyboy.

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 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 Ballyboy.

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

Name

Ballyboy · An Baile Buí

Area

2,714,646 m² (271.46 ha, 670.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbennan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunmore

Electoral division

Belclare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Belclare electoral division: 792 people in 279 households; 93% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bulcaun, Cloonascragh, Cloonnaglasha, Mullagh, Sylaun, Woodquay

Placenames

Ballyboy 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.