Ballylennan

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylennan, from 46 m² to 166,742 m² (16.67 ha, 41.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P1Agriculture
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a new silage slab, milking parlour and drafting area, roofed slatted cublicle house, overground slurry store and all associated ancillary concrete, Gross floor space of proposed works; 2314.51sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 360.27sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201087

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 Ballylennan.

Recorded monuments

• GA122-014 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In gently undulating farmland. Circular ringfort (diam. c. 45m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is composed of earth while the outer bank is constructed mainly of stone. A field wall cuts through the monument at NW and SE. A gap in the inner bank at N appears to be modern. The landowner indicated that he blocked up the entrance to a possible souterrain (GA122-014001-) in SW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 November 2016

• GA122-014001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a ringfort (GA122-014----). The landowner blocked up the entrance to a possible souterrain, which appeared to run in an NE direction. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 25 November 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylennan.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_728 (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 Ballylennan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballylennan · Baile Uí Leannáin

Area

230,845 m² (23.08 ha, 57.04 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhugh, Drumminacloghaun, Glenbrack, Gort, Newtown

Placenames

Ballylennan 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.