Ballybroder

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybroder, from 48 m² to 250,764 m² (25.08 ha, 61.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Ballybroder 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 May 2025Conditional

  and complete the outbuilding for agricultural use, to retain and complete imported stone hardstand and driveway, and to retain existing concrete slab and to reinstate a cottage in the same location as an earlier cottage. Permission is also sought to provide a new foulwater treatment plant for the cottage. The works are located close to a Recorded Monument, reference number GA106-012. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 146.00 sqm(H), 110 sqm(Agri)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560648

• 12 May 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 205.58 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560578

• 19 Dec 2024Refused

  and to complete the outbuilding for agricultural use, to retain and complete imported stone hardstand and driveway, to retain existing concrete slab and to reinstate a cottage in the same location as an earlier cottage, with a new connection to the existing foul water treatment plant. The works are located close to a recorded monument, reference number GA106-012

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461767

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 217.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460607

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 Ballybroder.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-009 Graveyard
  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.

• GA106-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in otherwise level pastureland. Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. A souterrain (GA106-010001-) lies within the interior. An oval enclosure (GA106-011----) lies c. 20m to the W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA106-010001 Souterrain
  Description

  In NE quadrant of a rath (GA106-010001-). This poorly preserved drystone-built souterrain (L >6.8m; Wth 1.5m max.; H 0.68m max.) curves slightly from E to W. Access is via an opening at each end, neither of which is original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA106-011 Enclosure
  Description

  Some 20m to the W of a rath (GA106-010----). Indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a limekiln; on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) a hachured oval enclosure (c. 17 NE-SW; c. 10m ENE-WSW) defined by a bank and named 'Gravel Pit (Disused)' is shown. On the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map it is also depicted as an oval enclosure. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2019

• GA106-012 Castle - tower house
  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.

• GA106-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a small cluster of trees to the W of a N-S running road. Named Lady’s Well on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Details from The Schools’ Collection (https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4583352/4582158/4591454 last accessed 12 December 2022) indicate that the well was known locally as ‘Tobar Muire’ and that in the early 19th century people used to visit it to ‘perform and pray’ but by the 1930s this was no longer the case. Pieces of cloth were tied to bushes around the well and there was also a spring well beside it. The well is roughly subcircular in plan (1.7m E-W; 1.5m N-S; D 1m) and is enclosed by a stone wall. A wooden cross is nailed to a tree adjacent to it. Above the cross, a small statuette of Our Lady and Child is covered with a metal lid. On inspection, fresh flowers had been placed beside the statuette, indicating that the well is still in use. The spring well to the E of it, and closer to the road, is of similar size and construction. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG and Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 December 2022

• GA106-014 Designed landscape feature
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Ballybroder House, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1800, with lower two-storey return to rear (north) elevation having futher flat roof extension. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and hipped and flat roof to return. Rendered walls, render removed to front and east side elevations. Square-headed window openings with block-and-start surrounds and replacement timber windows. Round-headed door opening with cut-stone doorcase having lintel, block-and-start surround with fluted keystone, and dressed stone retaining arch. Replacement timber panelled door with overlight. Located in own grounds with medieval tower house to rear of site. Entrance to road has rendered walls and piers.

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 10 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_1047 (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.

No address of the register names Ballybroder with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballybroder · Baile Uí Bhruadair

Area

764,114 m² (76.41 ha, 188.82 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Bullaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Bullaun electoral division: 340 people in 112 households; 91% of households own their home; 51% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybroder, Cahernagarry, Kilboght, Lisduff, Moyleen

Placenames

Ballybroder 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.