Ballynakill

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 1,302 m² to 46,484 m² (4.65 ha, 11.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakill 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.

• 27 Jan 2026Conditional

  for change of house design and all associated site works, previously granted under planning reference number 25-60432

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660101

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.00 sqm(H), 43.30 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560432

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• GA125-022001 Church
  Description

  Within a graveyard (GA125-022002-) to the N of Ballynakill village. Described by O'Donovan in 1838 as a ruined church, the doorway in the W gable was of 'quadrangular form' and its sides were 'somewhat battered'. It was capped with two lintel stones that met 'nearly in the middle'. A breach in the centre of the E gable, one at each end of the N wall and one at the W end of the S wall marked the positions of windows (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 503-4). The church (c. 14m E-W; c. 7m N-S; wall T 0.8m), rectangular in plan, is constructed of roughly worked coursed and mortared limestone and is densely overgrown with ivy. Only the S side-wall survives almost to its original height ( H 3-3.5m) and its internal face is rendered. The others walls (H 1-1.5m) are much lower. All that survives of the doorway is its base and no other architectural features are now visible. A number of burials and an 18th-century vault are visible in the interior. A bullaun stone, possibly associated with the church, noted on the grassy verge W side of the roadway, to the W of the church, has been moved and is now outside the St Joseph's R.C. church (GA125-068----) in Ballnakilll. See GA125-068001- for its present location. A castle (GA125-036----) lies c. 175m to SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 27 July 2023

• GA125-022002 Graveyard
  Description

  Associated with a church (GA125-022001-), which is located in its NE sector. This roughly D-shaped graveyard (c. 56m ENE-WSW) with a straight W side (L c. 48m) is enclosed by a limestone boulder wall along the N, E and S sides and by a rendered wall capped with concrete along the roadside on the W side. Access is via a gateway in the W wall. The majority of the headstones date to the 20th century but some dating to the 19th century are visible to the E and SE of the church. Within the church one burial vault dates to the 18th century. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 January 2019

• GA125-154 Fulacht fia
  Description

  This fulacht fiadh (dims. 6.9m by 0.3m) was identified during the course of archaeological monitoring, which was requested by the Forestry Service as a condition of planning in the preparation of lands for afforestation, in February 2014 (Ref. No. CN62947). It lay c. 20m to the E of a roughly N-S running field drain and was exposed in a test trench. It was composed of heat-shattered stone in a charcoal-enriched silt matrix. After examination the trench was backfilled and a buffer zone was created around the monument in which no trees will be planted (Doherty and Jones 2014). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 April 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballynakill, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballynakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Cille

Area

487,922 m² (48.79 ha, 120.57 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballynagar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Burroge, Carrowroe, Cartron South, Clooneen, Cregg, Knockadrum, Knockdrummore, Knockroe, Liss, Lissaniska

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.