# Ballymacward, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Mhic an Bhaird. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 901,520 m² (90.15 ha, 222.77 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,452 m² (0.65 ha, 1.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballymacward, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballymacward.md - Barony: Tiaquin - Electoral division: Ballymacward, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 316 people lived in 113 households in the Ballymacward electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 22% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/17708 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60369 - Centre: latitude 53.377033, longitude -8.491732 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacward, from 8 m² to 172,380 m² (17.24 ha, 42.6 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2015036: 172,380 m² (17.24 ha, 42.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015036.md - Parcel 2015037: 107,750 m² (10.78 ha, 26.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015037.md - Parcel 2015032: 77,193 m² (7.72 ha, 19.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015032.md - Parcel 1937313: 75,524 m² (7.55 ha, 18.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937313.md - Parcel 2015040: 68,599 m² (6.86 ha, 16.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015040.md - Parcel 5977897: 61,659 m² (6.17 ha, 15.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5977897.md - Parcel 1937316: 53,684 m² (5.37 ha, 13.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937316.md - Parcel 2015039: 48,531 m² (4.85 ha, 11.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015039.md - Parcel 1937317: 41,906 m² (4.19 ha, 10.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937317.md - Parcel 1937318: 41,097 m² (4.11 ha, 10.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937318.md - Parcel 1937319: 36,624 m² (3.66 ha, 9.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937319.md - Parcel 2015035: 9,673 m² (0.97 ha, 2.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015035.md - Parcel 2015033: 3,231 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015033.md - Parcel 1937315: 2,371 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937315.md - Parcel 6106209: 2,354 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6106209.md - Parcel 1937312: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937312.md - Parcel 2015034: 2,255 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015034.md - Parcel 5818698: 2,015 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5818698.md - Parcel 2015031: 1,542 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2015031.md - Parcel 5797120: 1,514 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5797120.md - Parcel 1937314: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937314.md - Parcel 2471341: 187 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2471341.md - Parcel 5449662: 42 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5449662.md - Parcel 5455278: 8 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5455278.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 12 Dec 2025, Galway County Council 25342: Conditional. Permission. to construct slatted shed & manure pit to include concrete aprons & all asscoiated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/25342/0 - 21 Nov 2022, Galway County Council 221181: Conditional. Permission. to construct toilet facilities to include all associated site works for catholic church. Gross floor space of proposed works: 9.30 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/221181/0 - 1 Jun 2021, Galway County Council 21954: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21954/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacward. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA073-016001: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-016001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA073-016002-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Water pump, 1860–1880, Regional interest, registry number 30407308, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30407308. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballymacward, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballymacward. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) - Ballymacward, Ballinasloe: 5 sales, https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward-ballinasloe.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Alloon Upper: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloon-upper.md - Alloonbaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/alloonbaun.md - Ballyvoneen: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyvoneen-60478.md - Carrownea: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownea.md - Carrownea Lower: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrownea-lower.md - Cave: https://everytownland.com/galway/cave-61121.md - Mountventure: https://everytownland.com/galway/mountventure.md - Whitepark: https://everytownland.com/galway/whitepark.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymacward - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballymacward