Ballynalacka

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalacka, from 484 m² to 35,983 m² (3.6 ha, 8.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballynalacka 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.

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

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 Ballynalacka.

Recorded monuments

• GA055-018 Enclosure
  Description

  On top of a low knoll in undulating farmland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). The monument has been destroyed due to the construction of a silage slab, feeding unit and milking parlour, but a curving modern field wall may overlie the original enclosing element from SE through S to SW. No visible surface trace survives of the 'Cave' (probable souterrain) (GA055-018001-) indicated on OS 6-inch maps near the centre of the monument. 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

• GA055-018001 Souterrain
  Description

  Close to the centre of an enclosure (GA055-018----). Marked on OS 6-inch maps as 'Cave'. No visible surface trace survives: its site is now occupied by a silage pit. 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

• GA055-019 Enclosure
  Description

  On lower N-facing slope of a low knoll. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1922) as an oval enclosure (NW-SE c. 30m) cut by a field wall at SSE and SSW. 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

• GA055-020 Enclosure
  Description

  On level reclaimed pastureland. Shown on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1922) as a small circular enclosure (D c. 20m). No visible surface trace survives apart from a very faint scarp line along S. 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 Ballynalacka.

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 moderately low, 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 Ballynalacka.

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

Name

Ballynalacka · Baile na Leaca

Area

498,018 m² (49.8 ha, 123.06 acres)

Civil parish

Cargin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Killursa, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killursa electoral division: 1,135 people in 397 households; 86% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconlought, Ballyhale, Farrangavnagh, Luggawannia

Placenames

Ballynalacka 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.