Ballyhale

546 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhale, from 8 m² to 17,958 m² (1.8 ha, 4.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhale 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyhale in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Special Protection Area: Lough Corrib SPA 004042
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Corrib 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA055-015 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (N-S c. 68m, E-W c. 50m) defined by a drystone wall from W to N, and elsewhere by a spread of rubble. A septic tank has been constructed on the wall line at NW and a field wall overlies it at S. A number of farm buildings occupy 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

• GA055-017 Children's burial ground
  Description

  By the roadside, just N of the village of Ballyhale. According to local information, there was formerly a CBG at the site of the modern grotto. Small set stones, removed when the grotto was built c. 20 years ago, were said to mark the graves. No visible surface trace survives. 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

• Willow Cottage, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic vernacular house, built c.1800, and with single-storey thatched late twentieth-century extension to rear. Pitched thatched roof with decorative block ridge and rendered chimneystack, and cement copings to gables. Lime rendered over random rubble walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows throughout, having painted stone sills. Square-headed replacement battened timber half-door. Set parallel to road behind random rubble fieldstone boundary wall with flat rubble coping, square gate piers and decorative metal gate, and with garden to side and rear.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyhale, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhale.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballyhale with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballyhale · Baile Héil

Area

1,476,112 m² (147.61 ha, 364.76 acres)

Civil parish

Cargin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalacka, Cargin, Farrangavnagh, Kilbeg, Lisheennageeha, Luggawannia, Mountross

Placenames

Ballyhale 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.