# Ballynagar, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Béal Átha na gCarr.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 435,533 m² (43.55 ha, 107.62 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,196 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ballynakill-loughrea-ra.md
- Barony: Leitrim
- Electoral division: Ballynagar, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19636
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60408
- Centre: latitude 53.087149, longitude -8.420407 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagar, from 40 m² to 107,223 m² (10.72 ha, 26.5 acres); 19 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1973562: 107,223 m² (10.72 ha, 26.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1973562.md
- Parcel 1973563: 66,255 m² (6.63 ha, 16.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1973563.md
- Parcel 1973564: 64,725 m² (6.47 ha, 15.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1973564.md
- Parcel 1924702: 57,725 m² (5.77 ha, 14.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1924702.md
- Parcel 2069161: 37,422 m² (3.74 ha, 9.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2069161.md
- Parcel 1973561: 35,413 m² (3.54 ha, 8.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1973561.md
- Parcel 1924703: 23,196 m² (2.32 ha, 5.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1924703.md
- Parcel 1973565: 20,259 m² (2.03 ha, 5.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1973565.md
- Parcel 4641064: 13,953 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641064.md
- Parcel 5430828: 6,350 m² (0.63 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5430828.md
- Parcel 5015522: 1,084 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5015522.md
- Parcel 5436598: 592 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5436598.md
- Parcel 4641077: 40 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4641077.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynagar 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)

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

## 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 Ballynagar.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- GA125-020: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-020----. On a hillock in pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure within an enclosed mixed tree plantation. On the 1925 edition the enclosing element of the plantation is not shown. The top of the hillock is slightly flattend and nearly circular (diam. c. 35m), however, no visible surface trace of the monument survives. All the trees have been removed. The siting suggests that it was possibly a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2019
- GA125-021: Country house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA125-021----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

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)

- Ballynagar House, country house, 1805–1810, Regional interest, registry number 30412515, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA&regno=30412515. Detached five-bay two-storey house over raised basement, built c.1807, having shallow pedimented single-bay entrance breakfront, bow ends to gables, earlier three-bay three-storey return to west (rear) elevation, and further block to southern re-entrant corner of rear. Hipped oversailing slate roof with timber eaves bracket, cement rendered chimneystacks to rear elevation wall of front block and projecting chimneystack to return gable, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut limestone eaves course to older block. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with tooled limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and timber sliding sash windows, nine-over-six pane to ground floor, six-over-six pane to first floor, and replacement timber casements to basement. Window openings to basement level of older block are narrower than those in upper floors. Tudor arch stair window opening to rear of front block with stone sill, having tripartite ten-over-ten pane timber sliding sash window with churchwarden tracery to overlight. Segmental-headed door opening with carved limestone doorcase comprising square-plan piers flanking door opening responds to sidelights, moulded detailing and paterae to piers and lintel, moulded cornice, cobweb fanlight, stained glass sidelights and half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf door. Square-headed timber battened door to rear elevation with paned overlight. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to west, with pitched slate roof, roughcast rendered walls, and square-headed and ound-headed openings. Road entrance comprises square-plan ashlar limestone piers with urns to caps, and double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate.

## 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 Ballynagar, about 1 in 5 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, partly inferred.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynagar.
- 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/ballynagar.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynagar.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynagar.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballynagar with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyglass: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballyglass-60333.md
- Coarseparks: https://everytownland.com/galway/coarseparks.md
- Cuilleendaeagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/cuilleendaeagh.md
- Garraunphaudeen: https://everytownland.com/galway/garraunphaudeen.md
- Gortnakilla: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortnakilla-62319.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.

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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.

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