Ballywinna

84 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywinna, from 60 m² to 202,916 m² (20.29 ha, 50.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballywinna 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.

• 2 Apr 2026Conditional

  of a domestic shed and lean to

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660496

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  for construction of a single storey dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area including installation of all site services and landscaping and vehicular access

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561590

• 1 Jul 2025Refused

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling including a wastewater treatment system & percolation area including installation of all site services and landscaping and vehicular access. Gross floor space of proposed works: 70.00 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560868

• 6 Aug 2024Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house and domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 80 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24232

• 27 Mar 2020Conditional

  of (a) Existing Fuel store and Tool Store build on Boundary wall. (b) Retention of a private domestic Garden shed and Games room. (c) Retention of Polytunnel. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 139.84 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20407

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 Ballywinna.

Recorded monuments

• GA096-010 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In recently cleared pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is much-obscured by overgrowth. A CBG (GA096-010001-) is associated. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 57) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA096-010001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within a cashel (GA096-010----). Indicated in name only on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933). No visible surface trace survives due to dumping of field-clearance rubble in the cashel. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 57) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA096-011 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Poorly preserved oval cashel (58.5m E-W; 38.4m N-S) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field wall. A children's burial ground (GA096-011001-) lies within the interior at E. A possible souterrain (GA096-011002-) is evident in the S sector. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 59) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA096-011001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the E half of a cashel (GA096-011----). Raised rectangular area (20.1m NE-SW; 11.7m NW-SE) within which burials are marked by recumbent or upright stones. Some of the stones are squared off and worked. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 59). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA096-011002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the SE quadrant of a cashel (GA096-011----). A protruding lintel-like stone in the SSE sector of the interior and a depression (L 6.4m, Wth 1.5m), running N-S, in the S sector suggest the possible presence of a souterrain. Traces of possible side-walls are evident in the depression. (McCaffrey 1952, 149, no. 59) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA096-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently rolling pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 149, no. 58a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. 18.5m), only half of which was evident and was densely overgrown. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballywinna.

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.

• Ballywinna, Craughwell8 sales

Name

Ballywinna · Baile an Mhuine

Area

1,678,809 m² (167.88 ha, 414.84 acres)

Civil parish

Killora, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Craughwell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Craughwell electoral division: 2,092 people in 690 households; 84% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymore, Garracloon North, Garracloon South, Moyode, Moyode Demesne, Pollnabanny, Templemartin

Placenames

Ballywinna 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.