Ballyconnell

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyconnell, from 238 m² to 246,967 m² (24.7 ha, 61.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballyconnell 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.

• 29 Apr 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of 190.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21700

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 Ballyconnell.

Recorded monuments

• GA123-015 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In flat pastureland overlooked by hills to the W. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of Mac Creamon (Nolan 1901, 114). All that survives of this tower house are the SE wall (L 10.45m) and the returns of the NE (L 2.3m) and SW (L 4.25m; wall T 1.66m) walls, which stand to just above the 1st floor level. The remains of a broken spiral staircase are evident in the E corner, suggesting that the doorway was located in the NE wall. A broken internal wall separates the stairwell from the main ground-floor chamber. The only surviving architectural features include a narrow loop lighting the stairwell, another narrow loop set within a deep embrasure in the SE wall of the chamber and E side of another embrasure the SW wall. A corbel in the S corner indicates that the 1st floor was wooden. Externally a garderobe exit chute is visible towards the S end of the SE wall. The tower house lies within the S half of a bawn (GA123-015002-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 August 2021

• GA123-015002 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a tower house (GA123-015----) which occupies its S half. Only the foundations of this roughly rectangular bawn wall survive. Three wall lengths were distinguishable at NW (L 48.8m), NE (L 38.5m) and SE (L 47.7m). Only a short length of the SW wall (L 7.6m) was discernible. A gap (Wth 1.9m) within it possibly marked the location of a gateway. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyconnell, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_839 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyconnell · Baile Uí Chonaill

Area

1,000,605 m² (100.06 ha, 247.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Ballycahalan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

213 people lived in 82 households in the Ballycahalan electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Ballycahalan, Cloonmorris, Kilbeacanty, Knockroe, Lisbrine, Lismoyle, Lurgabaun, Lurgan, Rakerin

Placenames

Ballyconnell 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.