Ballynamurdoon

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynamurdoon, from 1,620 m² to 145,703 m² (14.57 ha, 36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballynamurdoon 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.

• 8 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, external milk tank, hardcore, meal bin, rain water storage tank, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, flow channel and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 538 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560915

• 25 May 2021Conditional

  to construct (i) cubicles sheds extension with underground effluents tank (ii) Calf shed (iii) Silage slab and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1538 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 78 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21888

• 30 Apr 2019Conditional

  to 1) Construct 8 bay cubicle extension to side of existing shed. 2) Erect milk silo and construct extension to existing milking parlour. 3) Construct new agricultural shed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Cubicle Shed - 301 sqm, New Shed - 267 sqm & Extension to Milk Parlour - 20.7 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19641

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 Ballynamurdoon.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-030 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 July 2015

• GA106-031 Country house
  Description

  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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, 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 Ballynamurdoon.

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

Name

Ballynamurdoon · Baile na mBurdúnach

Area

811,281 m² (81.13 ha, 200.47 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeygormacan, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmeen electoral division: 672 people in 233 households; 93% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carra, Carrowshanbally, Castlenancy, Gortdrishagh, Gortymadden

Placenames

Ballynamurdoon 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.