Ballyhard

174 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhard, from 111 m² to 129,315 m² (12.93 ha, 31.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ballyhard 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.

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  to; 1. refurbish house to include alterations to elevations and construct new extension. 2. To refurbish existing shed for use as a home office. 3. To install upgraded treatment system and percolation area, and carry out all ancillary site development works

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2561233

• 16 May 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200 sqm(H), 48 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560610

• 7 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct dwelling house and domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed work: (House) 134.00 sqm & (Garage) 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461002

• 13 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic garage, to convert existing garage adjoining the dwelling house into a personnel gym room, and to retain existing dwelling house previously granted under planning ref. no. 02/506. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm & 21.8 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 216.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211268

• 13 Apr 2021Conditional

  for Demolition and re-construction of existing cottage, construction of single storey extension to the rear, upgrade of waste water treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 138 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 76 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21582

• 9 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/ fuel store with wastewater treatment plant percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 174.03sqm. Garage - 59.5sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181413

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: Lisnageeragh Bog and Ballinastack Turlough SAC 000296
• Natural Heritage Area: Keeloges Bog NHA 000281

Recorded monuments

• GA019-083 Burnt spread
  Description

  This is the westernmost of three fairly closely associated burnt spreads (see also GA019-084---- and GA019-085----, c. 98m and c. 142m to the SE respectively), all located on a long gentle W-facing boggy slope, which had recently been drained and ploughed. They were uncovered during the course of that work. This one comprised a very small deposit (L 0.5m; Wth 0.5m) of small burnt stones and charcoal that was visible on the unploughed W headland of the field and it had been truncated by a modern field drain immediately to its W. The following images have been uploaded: GA019-083----_01.jpg Small deposit of burnt/heat-shattered stone and charcoal GA091-083----_02.jpg As above Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 June 2023

• GA019-084 Burnt spread
  Description

  This is the 'central' and best preserved of three fairly closely associated burnt spreads (see also GA019-083---- c. 98m to the NW and GA019-085---- c. 42m to the SE), all located on a long gentle W-facing boggy slope, which had recently been drained and ploughed. There were uncovered during the course of that work. This one comprised a very visible and well-defined spread of small burnt stones and charcoal covering an area of 7m E-W by 4.5m N-S. The following image has been uploaded: GA019-084----_01.jpg Spread of heat-shattered/burnt stone and charcoal Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 June 2023

• GA019-085 Burnt spread
  Description

  This is the easternmost of three fairly closely associated burnt spreads (see also GA019-084---- and GA019-085----, c. 42m and c. 142m respectively to the NW), all located on a long gentle W-facing boggy slope, which had recently been drained and ploughed. They were uncovered during the course of that work. This example comprised a very visible and well-defined spread of small burnt stones and charcoal, covering an area of 6m N-S by 1.5m E-W, but it had been truncated along the E by a modern drain. A section along the headland bordering the drain revealed a depth of deposit of at least 0.2m. The following images have been uploaded: GA019-085----_01.jpg Spread of burnt/heat-shattered stone and charcoal GA019-085----_02.jpg Detail of above Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 June 2023

Architectural heritage

• Loretto, house, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey two-pile house, built c.1930, rear pile possibly being earlier block. Hipped slate to rear pile and flat roof to front, latter with render balustrade with lettering 'Loretta' above centre, balustrade being punctuated by piers with floral decoration, and with blocking course beneath, supported by fluted pilasters resting on panelled bases with further floral decoration. Rendered chimneystacks. Square-headed tripartite windows having coloured glass to overlights and base panels. Square-headed doorway having replacement glazed timber door, and geometric overlight, flanked by pilasters. Garden to front bounded by openwork concrete fence, metal railings and decorative wrought-iron gates.

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 Ballyhard, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyhard · Baile Leathaird

Area

2,510,202 m² (251.02 ha, 620.28 acres)

Civil parish

Boyounagh, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Glennamaddy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

925 people lived in 362 households in the Glennamaddy electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlara South, Common, Faartan, Frass, Keeloges West, Knockmascahill, Sonnagh East, Sonnagh West

Placenames

Ballyhard 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.