Ballymore

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymore, from 1,985 m² to 169,921 m² (16.99 ha, 41.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballymore 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 Jun 2025Conditional

  for a single storey dwelling house, single storey domestic garage, new boundary wall and two vehicular entrances to public road, the first new vehicular entrance to serve the proposed dwelling house and the second new vehicular entrance to serve the adjacent farmland, wastewater treatment, landscaping and all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 192 sqm(H), 50.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560698

• 15 Jul 2021Refused

  for 1) to construct a dwelling house and domestic garage / garden store 2) new sewage treatment system and 3) all associated site works and services 4) a Natura Impact Statement will accompany the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 221.8 sqm (house) and 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211284

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606

Recorded monuments

• GA103-015 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In recently cleared pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 178, no. 104a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 33.8m) defined by a drystone wall, which was ‘composed of two faces of blocks set on edge’. Immediately to the E of the cashel were ‘the remains of two stone houses [GA103-015001-; GA103-015002-] 40’ x 38’ [c. 12.2m by c. 11.6m] overall’. No visible surface trace survives of the cashel or the houses. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

• GA103-015001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  According to McCaffrey (1952, 178, no. 104a), there were ‘the remains of two stone houses [GA103-015001-; GA103-015002-] 40’ x 38’ [c. 12.2m by c. 11.6m] overall’ immediately to the E of the cashel (GA103-015----). The walls were '3' wide' and composed of 'heavy masonry'. No visible surface trace survives of the cashel or the houses. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

• GA103-015002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  According to McCaffrey (1952, 178, no. 104a), there were ‘the remains of two stone houses [GA103-015001-; GA103-015002-] 40’ x 38’ [c. 12.2m by c. 11.6m] overall’ immediately to the E of the cashel (GA103-015----). The walls were '3' wide' and composed of 'heavy masonry'. No visible surface trace survives of the cashel or the houses. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

• GA103-016 Enclosure
  Description

  In farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) as a rectangular ‘Stone fort’ (38.4m N-S; 36.9m E-W) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.7m) composed of two faces of stone set on edge. Three house sites (GA103-016001- to GA103-016003-) and an internal dividing wall were visible in the interior. A wall extended from the monument at W, running in a NW direction. Two enclosures (GA103-016004- and GA103-016005-) were located near it. Unlike the house sites, which were also defined by double-faced walls, the walls of these structures consisted of a single face of blocks set on edge. A crescent-shaped wall of single blocks extended off N end of the monument. No visible surface trace of any of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA103-016001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  This is one of three houses (see also GA103-016002- and GA103-016003-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) within the W half of the interior of a rectangular 'Stone fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'A', the house (8.8m x 5.4m) was constructed of double-faced walls (Wth 0.9m; H 0.6m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA103-016002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  This is one of three houses (see also GA103-016001- and GA103-016003-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) within the W half of the interior of a rectangular 'Stone fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'B', the house (10.4m x 5.1m) was constructed of double-faced walls (Wth 0.9m; H 0.48m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA103-016003 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  This is one of three houses (see also GA103-016001- and GA103-016002-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) within the W half of the interior of a rectangular 'Stone fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'C', the house (6m x 4.2m) was constructed of double-faced walls (Wth 0.9m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA103-016004 Enclosure
  Description

  This is one of two enclosures (see also GA103-016005-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) that were associated with a rectangular 'Stone Fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'D', this enclosure (6m x 3.6m) was defined by walls composed of single lines of boulders set on edge. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA103-016005 Enclosure
  Description

  This is one of two enclosures (see also GA103-016004-) recorded by McCaffrey (1952, 178-9, no. 119) that were associated with a rectangular 'Stone Fort' (GA103-016----). Annotated 'E', this enclosure (7.9m x 5.4m) was defined by walls composed of single lines of boulders set on edge. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA113-023 Cross
  Description

  In the corner of a field in flat pastureland. The stump of this partially collapsed and overgrown drystone limestone cross-shaft (D 0.95m; H >0.62m) stands on a pedestal (H 0.2m) and a two-tiered base (Wth 1.3m; max. H 0.7m). The edges of the shaft are chamfered. According to local information, it was used by a local priest for mass after the famine. On the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this feature may have been incorrectly named 'Holy Well' (see GA113-023001-). (McCaffrey 1952, 268, no. 4) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 November 2022

• GA113-023001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In flat pastureland. Named 'Holy Well' but not indicated on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of it survives and its existence was not remembered locally. It is possible that the name is an error and should have read 'Altar', as on the 1922 edition of the map. The latter feature proved to be the remains of a cross-shaft on a pedestal and base (see GA113-023----). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 16 November 2022

• GA113-024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  At NW end of a ridge in rough pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34.5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall from SW through N to NE. The SE quadrant has been bulldozed away and the resulting rubble now forms a meandering field wall, which runs through the interior from NE to NW. A low scarp indicates the former line of the wall from NE through S to SW. A gap (Wth c. 7m) at S may indicate the original entrance as traces of a raised causeway extend from here for c. 10m to S. In N half of the interior are the foundations of a rectangular structure (7.6m E-W; 4m N-S; H 0.3m); possibly the remains of the roofed building shown on 1st ed. of OS map. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymore, about 1 in 5 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_683 (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 Ballymore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballymore · An Baile Mór

Area

1,272,650 m² (127.27 ha, 314.48 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernalinsky, Cloghballymore, Cregballymore, Killeenavarra, Lisheeneenaun West, Tooreen East

Placenames

Ballymore 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.