Ballynahowna

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahowna, from 1,081 m² to 101,459 m² (10.15 ha, 25.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Ballynahowna 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.

• 3 Oct 2024Conditional

  for a new single storey dwellinghouse with treatment system and percolation area with all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 102 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461299

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the change of the house and garage plans and the relocation of both within the site which was previously granted planning permission under ref. no. 13-289. Gross floor space of proposed works: 119.9sqm (House) and 28.16sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21991

• 14 Mar 2018Unconditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and all associated site works (gross floor space 249.59sqm). (Previous Planning Reference No. 13/289)

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 18288

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynahowna.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynahowna, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynahowna · Baile na hAbhna

Area

1,151,240 m² (115.12 ha, 284.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Cappard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

121 people lived in 42 households in the Cappard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappard Demesne, Drumminacoosaun, Farnaun, Gorteenaniska, Hollymount, Keelderry

Placenames

Ballynahowna 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.