Ballyvullaun

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvullaun, from 553 m² to 70,542 m² (7.05 ha, 17.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyvullaun 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.

• 19 May 2025Conditional

  to revise the house design previously granted under planning reference number 23/61267. Gross floor space of proposed works: 254.50 sqm(H), 55 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560620

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new passive house dwelling, effluent treatment system, new vehicular entrance & all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works 254 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361267

• 9 Sept 2022N/a

  for the proposed development which will consist of a new dwelling house and associated domestic garage, effluent treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works.Gross floor space of proposed works 291.80sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260911

• 16 Mar 2022Conditional

  for a) part single storey-part two storey dwelling house measuring 238 sqm, b) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to local road, c) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 238 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22359

• 3 Feb 2022Refused

  The proposed development will consist of a new dwelling house and associated domestic garage, effluent treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 291.80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260062

• 11 Aug 2020Conditional

  for a domestic dwelling, treatment plant & percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 356sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201118

• 19 Mar 2020Conditional

  to consist of 1) Permission for the renovation and modification of an existing derelict former dwelling house for habitable use, 2) Construction of a new single storey extension to the rear and 3) Construction of a new first floor and new roof, 4) Provision of a new sewerage treatment system and 5) All associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to Planning Authority. Gross floor space of proposed work; extension 16.2sqm, new first floor 48sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20357

• 18 Apr 2019Refused

  to construct a single-storey dwelling, septic tank, treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 111.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19585

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA103-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed farmland. Marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

• GA103-051 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In reclaimed farmland. Described by McCaffrey (1952, 184, no. 36) as possible stone fort (diam. c. 33m) that was defined by a wall of rocky spill (Wth 7.3m; H 0.9m). On inspection in May 1992 only a grassy stony mound (38m N-S; 20m E-W) was visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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; parts are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyvullaun · Baile Uí Mhaoláin

Area

804,452 m² (80.45 ha, 198.78 acres)

Civil parish

Drumacoo, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Drumacoo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Drumacoo electoral division: 1,561 people in 514 households; 83% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderreen, Crosheen, Drumacoo, Killeenaran, Tyrone

Placenames

Ballyvullaun 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.