Ballina

126 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballina, from 115 m² to 234,849 m² (23.48 ha, 58.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Ballina 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.

• 6 Jul 2026N/a

  sought to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661139

• 19 Jun 2026N/a

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 26150

• 20 Apr 2026N/a

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete aprons and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2686

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  for the renovation of existing two storey dwelling house and extension to existing house, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24368

• 1 Oct 2024Conditional

  for renovation of an existing derelict dwelling, alterations of elevations and extensions to front & rear elevations, domestic garage, package tertiary wastewater treatment system with all associated site works and ancillary services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92.00 sqm (extension) & 30.00 (garage)

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2461287

• 30 Jun 2022Conditional

  sought for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 220sqm (dwelling house) and 56sqm (domestic garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260669

• 19 Apr 2022Refused

  for change of use of a domestic dwelling house to a commercial office, and all associated works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260369

• 15 Jun 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system and a garage/shed at the above address. Gross floor space of proposed works: 248sqm (Dwelling) and 60sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211062

• 6 May 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and all ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 153.7 sqm, Garage: 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21747

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 202.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191960

• 24 Sept 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 83 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191475

• 10 Apr 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, septic tank, treatment system and percolation area and all ancillary site works. Gross floor 185sqm. house, 60sqm garage

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18425

• 29 Sept 2017Conditional

  to construct a general purpose agricultural shed including all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works 140sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171435

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 Ballina.

Recorded monuments

• GA058-007 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On reclaimed level pastureland. An unenclosed oval area (E-W 30m, N-S 24.25m) within which a fairly dense concentration of small plain moss-covered, flat and upright, grave-markers are visible aligned E-W. 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

• GA058-009 House - 17th century
  Description

  Some 90m NNE of a castle (GA058-010001-). Very poorly preserved two-storey rectangular house (NE-SW; L 21m, Wth 9m), probably of late 17th/18th-C date. The upper storey is contained within the pitch of the roof. All that survives is NE gable crowned by a rectangular chimney, along with short returns of SE and NW side-walls. There are two robbed-out fireplaces and two wall recesses on ground floor, and a third fireplace on 1st floor, flanked by four rectangular windows. 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

• GA058-010001 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a low mound in undulating grassland. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Richard Burke fitz Tho.' (Nolan 1901b, 119). According to Nolan (1901a, 40), 'It was blown up to furnish stones for Moyne'. No visible surface trace survives apart from a spread of large boulders. A rectangular bawn (L 40m, Wth 25m) abuts the monument at N and a field system (GA058-010002-) lies to NW and 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

• GA058-010002 Field system
  Description

  To NW and N of a castle (GA058-010001-). A series of low grassed-over earthen banks, visible intermittently, cover an area c. 180m NE-SW by c. 60m NW-SE. The line of one earthen bank, aligned NW-SE, can be traced through several fields and a series of field banks aligned NE-SW run off it. A rectangular area (N-S 40m, E-W 15m) defined by a bank is also visible immediately to N of the castle. 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

Architectural heritage

• House, 1920–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-storey schoolteacher's house with dormer attic, built c.1930. Pitched slate roof with gable over middle bay with pair of windows, rendered chimneystacks to gable ends, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted roughcast walls. Square-headed timber slidings sash windows, four-over-four pane to upper windows and six-over-six pane to lower. Square-headed timber panelled door, with slated lean-to canopy above on timber brackets. Garden to front bounded by rubble limestone wall.

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 Ballina, 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

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

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.

• Ballina, Ballyglunin5 sales

Name

Ballina · Béal an Fheá

Area

2,989,886 m² (298.99 ha, 738.82 acres)

Civil parish

Killererin, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballynapark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Ballynapark, Brackloon, Feagh West, Garra, Gortbeg

Placenames

Ballina 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.