Ballyweeaun

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyweeaun, from 16 m² to 768,943 m² (76.89 ha, 190.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Ballyweeaun 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.

• 4 Oct 2023Conditional

  for an extension & alterations to an existing dwelling, new effluent treatment system & new domestic entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361190

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  for an extension & alterations to an existing dwelling, construction of a garage/shed & upgrading the effluent treatment system together with associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360454

• 3 Apr 2023N/a

  for an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360336

• 20 Dec 2021Refused

  chun a) athchóirithe a dhéanamh ar sean-teach atá ann aheana féin, b) coras séarachais nua agus láthair shíothlúcháin nua a chur isteach, c) díon nua a chur ar an seid taobh leis an teach chomh maith le gach obair suímh a baineann. Spás urláir comhlán na n-oibreacha beartaithe: n/a

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212414

• 17 Dec 2021Refused

  chun athchóirithe a dhéanamh ar fhothrach sean-teach, coras séarachais nua agus láthair shíothlúcháin nua a chur isteach chomh maith le gach obair suímh a baineann leis.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212397

• 15 Jul 2021Conditional

  of a glazed potting shed to the gable of my dwelling and revised location of my site entrance to that granted under planning application Ref 11/468.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211298

• 26 Sept 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed. Gross floor space of proposed works 261sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171415

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  (1) To demolish existing substandard house. (2) To retain temporary mobile home. (3) To construct a new dwellinghouse, treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. (Gross floor space for demolition: 62 sqm; Gross floor space of work to be retained; 36.4 sqm; Gross floor space of proposed works: 144.42 sqm).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17356

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 Ballyweeaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA027-011 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On W-facing slope in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st edition of OS as a subcircular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyweeaun, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyweeaun · Baile Uí Bhuíáin

Area

2,806,122 m² (280.61 ha, 693.41 acres)

Civil parish

Ross, and its townlands

Barony

Ross

Electoral division

Cloonbur, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,267 people lived in 389 households in the Cloonbur electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 18% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballard, Cahergal, Carrick East, Carrowkeel, Coolin, Fahy, Gortnarup, Kilbeg Upper, Millpark

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballyweeaun 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.