Ballydonnellan East

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonnellan East, from 3,952 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres) to 299,406 m² (29.94 ha, 73.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballydonnellan East 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballydonnellan East in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballydonnellan East.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-025 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1933) as a rectangular area (E-W 18m, N-S 10m). No visible surface trace survives. A ringfort (GA098-026----) lies c. 200m to SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Circa 200m SW of a CBG (GA098-025----). Subcircular rath (E-W 36.2m, N-S 30.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from N to NE and J from E through S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. An external fosse survives from SSW through W to NNE. A gap (Wth 7.5m) at SSE may be original. Quarrying has disturbed the enclosing elements at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-027 Earthwork
  Description

  In undulating pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a small circular mound lying off-centre within an oval enclosure (c. 40m by c. 30m). All that survives is a steep-sided round-topped circular mound of earth and stone (D 16.5m, H 3.2m max.). A small depression at S side may be the result of disturbance. No visible surface trace of the larger encircling enclosure survives. Possibly a tumulus, but its relationship to and the character of the encircling enclosure is unclear. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-028001 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In undulating grassland within the former Ballydonnellan estate. A poorly preserved tower (N-S 11.5m) built in 1412 by 'Tuly Odonelan' according to the foundation stone which is now in the yard of Aughrim National School. It was subsequently enlarged and remodelled in the 18th C when it was transformed into the flanking W wing of the adjacent (now level) 17th-C house (GA098-028001-); a similar wing was built on E side to balance it (Bence-Jones 1978, 20). Apart from W wall which is four storeys high, only the returns of N and S walls survive. A robbed-out doorway with brick insertions, in N wall, leads to a ground-floor chamber. A stone vault exists between ground/1st floors, Robbed-out rectangular windows are visible on 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of W wall, and also a rectangular chimney stack embellished with two string courses. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 647-8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-028002 House - 17th century
  Description

  Abutting E wall of a tower house (GA098-028001-). According to Bence-Jones (1978, 20), this was originally a 'long low and narrow 2 storey C17 house'. In the 18th C, it was enlarged and remodelled by the Donellan family who 'transformed the castle into a flanking wing higher than the C17 range and built a similar wing to balance it at the other [E] end' (ibid.). Apart from the tower house, only the grassed-over foundation lines of the 17th-C house (L > 25.7m, Wth 11.3m) survive, along with the shell of the four-storey 18th-C E wing. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 647-8) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-028003 House - 18th/19th century
  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.

• GA098-029 Dovecote
  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.

• GA098-030 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.

• GA098-031 Standing stone
  Description

  On a hummock in grassland, in the former Ballydonnellan estate. A limestone slab (H 1.3m), roughly rectangular in plan, aligned NE-SW. Now used as a scratching stone. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-032 Memorial stone
  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

• Ballydonnellan Castle, country house, 1410–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Ruinous remains of multiple-bay three-storey over basement country house, built c.1750, incorporating tower house, built 1412, to west end. West wall standing over tower house undercroft, central range of house demolished, east elevation, single-bay of garden (south) elevation with full-height canted bay window, and part of east bay of north (front) elevation remain. Roofless. Remains of rendered walls with some cut limestone quoins and string courses. Square-headed openings, dressings and fittings gone. Evidence of plaster cornices to interior. Undercroft with vaulted ceiling having excellent wicker centering. Ruinous remains of outbuilding to east with round-headed arches having cut limestone voussoirs, giving onto single-cell chambers with corbelled ceilings. Remains of carriage arches, set in rendered walls, one with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Site entrance to roadside with square-profile cut stone piers with decorative cast-iron gates and matching railings set on cut limestone plinth wall, with matching cut limestone terminating piers.

• Ballydonnellan Castle, dovecote/pigeon house/aviary, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached square-plan dovecote, built c.1750. Now roofless and ruinous. Rubble limestone walls with cut-stone string courses, square recess over door. Round-headed door opening with tooled limestone surround and two arch stones. Circular-plan to interior, with brick-lined walls with nesting boxes. Situated in demesne of Ballydonnellan Castle.

• Ballydonnellan Castle, walled garden, 1730–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Irregular plan walled garden, built c.1750. Now disused and overgrown. Rubble limestone walls, having entrance to west side.

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 Ballydonnellan East, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballydonnellan East · Baile Uí Dhónalláin Thoir

Area

1,169,287 m² (116.93 ha, 288.94 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killoran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

288 people lived in 95 households in the Killoran electoral division. 98% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydonnellan West, Ballyhogan, Brackloon, Carrowreagh, Chelsea, Cloonmain, Lissacullaun, Lissacullaun, Lissalumma, Shanballycolman, Tooree

Placenames

Ballydonnellan East 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.