Ballymacward

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacward, from 8 m² to 172,380 m² (17.24 ha, 42.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballymacward 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.

• 12 Dec 2025Conditional

  to construct slatted shed & manure pit to include concrete aprons & all asscoiated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25342

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  to construct toilet facilities to include all associated site works for catholic church. Gross floor space of proposed works: 9.30 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221181

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  of dwelling house and alterations to plans submitted on revised site boundaries to that granted under planning reference number 14/564 and for change of use of shop (commercial) to part of the dwelling and all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.45 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21954

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 Ballymacward.

Recorded monuments

• GA073-016001 Church
  Description

  Located just to the NW of the centre of Ballymacward graveyard (GA073-016002-). No visible surface trace of this church survives. However, an overgrown level area (c. 15m E-W; c. 8m N-S), free of graves, appears to mark its site and this also corresponds to where it is shown on the OS 6-inch maps. No foundation stones were evident but some loose stone was visible through the long grass. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 November 2020

• GA073-016002 Graveyard
  Description

  In grassland. This overgrown subrectangular graveyard (c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) is enclosed by a stone wall capped with concrete. The earliest inscribed headstone noted dates to 1791; most of the others are of 19th and 20th-century date, though some older uninscribed grave-markers are also visible. Within an area bounded by trees in the NW section, a number of flat table tombs are visible. Several family plots are enclosed by iron railings. The graveyard is still in use. A church (GA073-016001-) is associated. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 23 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, now disused. Comprises cylindrical shaft with moulded horizontal banding, fluted upper section, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, foliated decoration to spout neck and cow's tail pumping arm. Set back from the road and enclosed on three sides by rendered boundary wall.

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 10 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

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

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.

• Ballymacward, Ballinasloe5 sales

Name

Ballymacward · Baile Mhic an Bhaird

Area

901,520 m² (90.15 ha, 222.77 acres)

Civil parish

Ballymacward, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Ballymacward, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacward electoral division: 316 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Alloon Upper, Alloonbaun, Ballyvoneen, Carrownea, Carrownea Lower, Cave, Mountventure, Whitepark

Placenames

Ballymacward 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.