Ballynakillew

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakillew, from 689 m² to 80,184 m² (8.02 ha, 19.81 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakillew 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.

• 11 May 2023Conditional

  for the construction of an agricultural shed with associated services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360489

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  of (A) approved dwelling house (200m²) and all ancillary site works on revised (reduced) site boundaries and revised site layout, (Planning Ref. 06/43 refers) (B) replacement of existing effluent treatment system with a New Effluent treatment plant and polishing filter.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260661

• 23 Apr 2019Conditional

  to construct a four bay double slatted cattle shed with creep area on both sides on lands. Gross floor space of proposed works 509 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19600

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 Ballynakillew.

Recorded monuments

• GA041-005 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a low hill in gently undulating rough pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA041-007 Burial
  Description

  In level pastureland. Discovered in 1986 while digging foundation trenches for a house. Bones of several adults, including two skulls covered by a small limestone flag, were uncovered. These lay at a depth of c. 0.25m below the surface. Vague local tradition of burial at this spot. 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 Ballynakillew.

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, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynakillew · Baile na Coille

Area

442,169 m² (44.22 ha, 109.26 acres)

Civil parish

Cargin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Headford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Headford electoral division: 1,864 people in 695 households; 75% of households own their home; 43% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconlought, Cahermacanally, Ellagh, Headford, Kilmurry, Tobercrossaun

Placenames

Ballynakillew 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.