Ballyglooneen

82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglooneen, from 9 m² to 123,432 m² (12.34 ha, 30.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyglooneen 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.

• 24 Oct 2023Refused

  to construct a new agricultural entrance/exit gateway & all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2361275

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  to upgrade the existing 220k overhead line between the existing Cashla 220kV Substation in the townland of Barrettspark, Co. Galway, & Tower 138 in the townland of Oughtagh, Co. Galway. The proposed development will consist of refurbishment works to the existing overhead Line (approximately 49 km long & comprising of 138no. steel angle masts). The refurbishment works to towers will consist of: installation of replacement parts on the towers including insulators, shield wire, vibration dampeners, arching horns & anti-climbing guards; associated site development works, including temporary work areas, foundation refurbishment /strengthening & recapping/clearing of shear blocks; clearance of shear block bases; & ancillary works; ancillary site preparation works, site clearance & levelling at the 6no. temporary construction compounds & associated temporary works to existing tracks & new temporary access routes to provide internal access routes to each tower with all associated works required to facilitate the development. No works will be undertaken to the overhead line (conductor). The proposed development will also consist of upgrades to the Cashla 220kV substation that will consist of: the decommissioning and removal of line bay equipment within the substation boundary; construction of a new adjacent offline like for like line bay & associated bay protection cabinets within the substation boundary; & new overhead lines connection between the end mast & the new line bay. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23355

• 3 May 2023Conditional

  for amendments to plans for proposed extension and renovation to existing dwelling, granted under re. no. 20/1398

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23173

• 10 Mar 2023Refused

  for the existing dwelling house, exit / entry gate, front boundary wall, wastewater treatment system & percolation area, all on revised site boundaries from previously granted planning permission reference number 21/1872. Full planning permission is also sought to retain & complete the construction of the domestic garage / fuel store previously granted under 21/1872 with all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 303 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2385

• 8 Oct 2021Conditional

  to retain and complete the existing dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area from previously granted planning permission reference number 20/994 all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 303 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211872

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  for extension and renovations to existing dwelling house and upgrade of the existing on-site treatment system, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 149.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201398

• 22 Jul 2020Conditional

  to renovate part of the existing derelict dwelling house, construct extensions, construct a domestic garage/storage space, install a septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 191sqm, Gross floor space of any demolition; 33sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20994

• 27 Jan 2017Conditional

  for constructions of extensions, completions and amendments to the existing dwelling. Also full retention permission is sought for the existing house and the attached garage / carport to the rear. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 37.7 sqm., ground level, & 42.2 sqm., - total 79.9 sqm. retention 28.8sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1774

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 Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

• GA058-016 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA058-017 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA058-018 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA058-019 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA058-020 Country house
  Description

  Martin Blake fitz Andrew of Galway, who was sheriff of the county of the town in 1648-9, was dispossessed of his property and estates by the Commonwealth in 1655. He was transplanted to Cummer, Co. Galway, where he and his family resided (see GA043-070----). In 1671 he purchased the lands of Ballyglunin (Ballyglooneen) from the Cromwellian planter Charles Holcraft but continued to reside at Cummer until his death in 1691 (Blake 1905, 214-5). His eldest son, Peter, died a month after his father and the Blake estate was settled on his son, Martin who moved to Ballyglooneen in the earlier 18th century where he built a house. Various additions and refurbishments were undertaken in the 18th and 19th centuries by his descendants. In the 1870s the Blakes owned over 10,000 acres in the locality. By March 1916 the family had accepted a final offer of over £60,000 from the Congested Districts' Board for almost 9,800 acres of their estate (http://landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=947). In 1964 the house was purchased by the Catholic institution, Opus Dei, and used as a conference centre. It was sold in 2014 and is now in private possession. The description of the house below is from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, record no. 30405821, www.buildingsofireland.ie, accessed 22 September 2017): Detached two-storey country house, comprising three-bay L-plan house of c.1770 facing south, having pedimented breakfront, with short link to later block to rear, to give overall U-plan building presenting gable and hip to west elevation, current entrance being in west gable of gable. Slate roofs, hipped to earlier block and pitched to later block, with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Diocletian window to first floor of breakfront, with limestone block and start surround, and Venetian doorway to ground floor, with block-and-start limestone surround, door opening now a window, square-headed sidelights and round fanlight now blocked up. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Projecting flat-roofed porch to west gable of rear block, having square-headed doorway flanked by windows. Round-plan two-stage tower to north-east corner of rear block, with pointed windows. Courtyard of farm buildings to east, having pitched slate roofs and rubble limestone walls, having lean-to addition to east range with segmental-arched vehicular entrance. Yard approached by entrance gate having offset dressed limestone piers with double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate. Walled garden to east bounded by rubble limestone wall. This country house is notable for its two phases of building and reorientation of its entrance. Its setting is enhanced by the associated outbuildings and walled garden, and siting next to the Abbert River. The retention of timber sash windows and other external and internal features also enhances this country house. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 5 December 2018

• GA058-021 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyglunin Park, gate lodge, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway, erected c.1850, serving Ballyglunin House. Comprising pair of square-plan decorative open cast-iron piers with decorative double-leaf cast-iron gates, flanked by pair pedestrian gates. Square-plan ashlar limestone piers with string course and pyramidal caps to outer ends of gateway, with curvilinear coursed random rubble limestone walls with flat rubble copings to road. Set at roadside with gate lodge opposite. Lodge is detached L-plan three-bay single-storey with dormer attic house, built c.1850, now ruined. Pitched roof, with slate-roofed lean-to projecting window bay to north and east gables. Squared and snecked limestone rubble walls to north and east elevations, with coursed random rubble limestone walls to west and south. Corbels to gables and coved cornice to eaves. Square-headed openings with tooled limestone lintels and sills. Set at roadside with no boundary to rear, and yard to north.

• Bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arched rock-faced limestone bridge over River Abbert, built c.1860. Segmental arch with cut limestone voussoirs to arch rings, and squared and snecked random rubble limestone to spandrels. String course above arches, with squared and snecked limestone parapets with copings. Tarmacadamed carriageway. Random rubble limestone walls to adjacent fields.

• Ballyglunin Park, country house, 1760–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey country house, comprising three-bay L-plan house of c.1770 facing south, having pedimented breakfront, with short link to later block to rear, to give overall U-plan building presenting gable and hip to west elevation, current entrance being in west gable of gable. Slate roofs, hipped to earlier block and pitched to later block, with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Diocletian window to first floor of breakfront, with limestone block and start surround, and Venetian doorway to ground floor, with block-and-start limestone surround, door opening now a window, square-headed sidelights and round fanlight now blocked up. Square-headed window openings elsewhere with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Projecting flat-roofed porch to west gable of rear block, having square-headed doorway flanked by windows. Round-plan two-stage tower to north-east corner of rear block, with pointed windows. Courtyard of farm buildings to east, having pitched slate roofs and rubble limestone walls, having lean-to addition to east range with segmental-arched vehicular entrance. Yard approached by entrance gate having offset dressed limestone piers with double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gate. Walled garden to east bounded by rubble limestone wall.

• Brook Lodge, bridge, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c.1770, carrying demesne road across Abbert River. Piers and walls of rougly-faced limestone, with margined hammer-dressed voussoirs and having wrought-iron railings to parapets, terminated by ruble limestone piers.

• Church/chapel, 1840–1950 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached gable-fronted former Franciscan monastery chapel, built 1949, having eight-bay nave, and projecting gabled entrance porch. Four-bay two-storey lower block to south, built c.1850, is remaining part of monastery. Pitched slate roof, having closely set moulded corbels to eaves, and stone cross finial to gable-front. Rendered walls with plinth, pilasters between windows of nave elevations, and corners having projecting antae-like details with pyramidal caps having cross finials. Round-headed stained-glass windows to long walls set into square-headed raised render surrounds. Similar windows to gable-front, and triple-light window to altar gable. Romanesque-style rendered entrance comprising Order doorway with simple plinths and doiuble-leaf timber panelled door with stained-glass fanlight. Interior has marble altar with three round headed leaded stained glass openings to south-west. Timber-fronted choir balcony to entrance end, and slim roof trusses on concrete brackets with timber-sheeted ceiling. Monastery building has hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack, and rendered walls with rendered pilasters to corners. Buildings set back from road with graveyard to south-east and outbuildings to south-west.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

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

Name

Ballyglooneen · Béal Átha Glúinín

Area

1,911,901 m² (191.19 ha, 472.44 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballynapark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynapark electoral division: 1,101 people in 336 households; 95% of households own their home; 46% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh, Annagh Hill, Ardskea Beg, Brooklodge Demesne, Caherphuca, Parkgarve, Pollawarla, Pollsillagh

Placenames

Ballyglooneen 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.