Ballyconlought

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.

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.

• 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.

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).

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 Ballyconlought.

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.

• Ballyconlought, Headford6 sales

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

Census 2022

Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

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. 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.