Ballynahattina

52 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahattina, from 158 m² to 122,811 m² (12.28 ha, 30.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 16 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 Ballynahattina 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.

• 13 Aug 2025Conditional

  for an extension to an existing slatted shed to include cow cubicles and a loose bedded area

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561103

• 20 Jan 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area, manure pit and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works: 344 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2043

• 3 May 2019Conditional

  for farm machinery, hay and straw storage shed, concrete apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 593.58 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19674

• 26 Feb 2019N/a

  for farm machinery, hay and straw storage shed, concrete apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 593.58 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19257

• 26 Feb 2018Conditional

  for a slatted shed with calf creep area, manure pit and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works 350 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18216

• 8 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house domestic garage / fuel store with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 235.95 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17645

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 Ballynahattina.

Recorded monuments

• GA060-010 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle rise. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). All that survives is a segment of the bank (Wth 4m, H 2.1m ext.) along W, indicating a diameter of c. 28m. There is a rectangular hollow (L 12m, Wth 3m), running N-S, in W sector, but most of the interior appears to have been quarried out. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynahattina.

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

Name

Ballynahattina · Baile na hAitinne

Area

1,090,603 m² (109.06 ha, 269.49 acres)

Civil parish

Killosolan, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Castleblakeney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castleblakeney electoral division: 551 people in 197 households; 88% of households own their home; 30% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corgerry Eighter, Lehanagh, Meelick

Placenames

Ballynahattina 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.