Shanballard

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Shanballard, from 354 m² to 280,784 m² (28.08 ha, 69.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 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 Shanballard 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.

• 28 May 2020Conditional

  to construct a new 2 storey dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area, and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 244 sqm, Garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20654

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 Shanballard.

Recorded monuments

• GA072-005 Boundary mound
  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.

• GA072-049 Earthwork
  Description

  On a prominent ridge in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as W half of an irregularly shaped area (N-S c. 65m) defined by a single line of hachures. 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

• GA072-067 Boundary mound
  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

• Saint Monica's National School, school, 1895–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey schoolhouse, dated 1896, now in use as private dwelling, and having flat-roof porch to east. Pitched natural slate roof with red brick chimneystack to middle of ridge, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with rendered skirting band to base. Square-headed six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with render reveals and tooled limestone sills. Timber sheeted entrance door in east side of porch and window in south side. Inscribed limestone plaque in east elevation reads 'Scoil Náisiúnta' and another reading 'St Monica's National School Shanballard erected 1896'. Small garden to front with rendered boundary wall having chamfered limestone coping.

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 Shanballard.

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

Name

Shanballard · An Seanbhaile Ard

Area

1,032,545 m² (103.25 ha, 255.15 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cappalusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cappalusk electoral division: 416 people in 144 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caltraghbreedy, Clooncah, Corskeagh (Daly), Dooghcloon, Fahy, Shanballyeeshal

Placenames

Shanballard 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.