Ballyconlought
Townland in the civil parish of Cargin, barony of Clare, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Uí Chonlachta
- Area
- 117.1 ha
- 289 acres
- Land parcels
- 136
- registered freehold, median 2,413 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
136 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconlought, from 7 m² to 74,650 m² (7.46 ha, 18.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballyconlought 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
14 Mar 2024Conditional
for the construction of a Domestic Garage/Shed together with associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460276
6 Mar 2020Conditional
to construct an extension and carry out alterations to an existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 46.8 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20292
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 Ballyconlought.
Recorded monuments
- GA055-014 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
On a slight S-facing slope. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 39m) defined by a drystone wall from SSW to NW. The td. boundary cuts the monument at SSW and NW, and no visible surface trace survives to E of it. 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
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay two-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, having direct-entry plan and with single-storey flat-roofed glazed extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with block ridge and rendered chimneystack, and with stone copings to gables. Rendered over random rubble walls, with raised parallel quoins and eaves course, and rendered plinth. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with leaded pane detail, rendered reveals, and painted stone sills. Square-headed five panel timber entrance door with glazed upper panels. Single-storey ruined outbuilding to rear, and three-bay single-storey rendered outbuilding to west. Set back from road behind rendered boundary wall, with garden to front and side.
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic direct-entry vernacular house, built c.1800, and having single-storey flat-roofed mid-twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with block ridge and rendered chimneystack, and having stone copings to gables. Rendered over random battered rubble walls. Square-headed openings with replacement timber casement windows throughout, with painted stone sills. Square-headed battened timber entrance door, with glazed upper section. Single-storey random rubble outbuilding to front, perpendicular to house, having pitched corrugated-iron roof. Buiildings set back from road behind rendered boundary wall with square gate piers and metal farm gate.
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).
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballyconlought, Headford6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyconlought · Baile Uí Chonlachta
- Area
- 1,170,636 m² (117.06 ha, 289.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cargin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clare
- Electoral division
- Killursa, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynakillew, Ballynalacka, Cahergal, Cahermacanally, Carrownacroagh, Cuilleen, Farrangavnagh, Kilmurry, Luggawannia
- Placenames
- Ballyconlought on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.