Ballintemple
Ballintemple is a townland in the civil parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Baile an Teampaill.
Parcel 1964334
- Area
- 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 279 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballintemple
Planning applications on this parcel
1 May 2025Conditional
and extension of the existing granny flat to existing dwelling and to construct shed/store and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 23.70 sqm (extension), 28.09 sqm(shed/store), gross floor space of work to be retained: 65.66 (granny flat)
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2599
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_528 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 115.8 ha
- 286 acres
- Land parcels
- 85
- registered freehold, median 2,426 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Recreation and Amenity
- Planning
- 15
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
85 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintemple, from 242 m² to 139,474 m² (13.95 ha, 34.46 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- G1Recreation and Amenity (Open space, park)
Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3), Galway City · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S3Community Culture and Institutional (Community facilities)
Galway City Development Plan 2023-2029 (Variations 1,2,3), Galway City · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Feb 2026Refused
of (1) 2 no. agricultural sheds, (2) hardstand area with decorative boundary fence and concrete slab and (3) access road from main road to hardstand area
Retention · Galway County Council, 2660199
3 Dec 2025N/a
of; (1) 2 no. agricultural sheds, (2) hardstand area with decorative boundary fence and concrete slab and (3) access road from main road to hardstand area
Retention · Galway County Council, 2561779
1 May 2025Conditional
and extension of the existing granny flat to existing dwelling and to construct shed/store and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 23.70 sqm (extension), 28.09 sqm(shed/store), gross floor space of work to be retained: 65.66 (granny flat)
Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2599
18 Jul 2024Conditional
to construct dwellinghouse, garage, treatment plant and percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235 sqm (H) & 60 sqm (G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24206
28 Mar 2024Conditional
for the construction of front, rear & first floor extensions to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations and refurbishment of same. Permission is also sought for revisions to the existing domestic garage, replacement of the existing septic tank with a new proprietary treatment system and percolation area, for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 99 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460346
8 Jun 2023Conditional
of alterations to a wastewater treatment system from what was granted in planning reference number 19/1189
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360621
18 Aug 2022Refused
to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment plant and percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 235sqm, Garage: 60sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22987
19 Aug 2021N/a
to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment plant and percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 235 sqm, Garage 60sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211512
5 Jan 2021Refused
to build a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, effluent treatment system, and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 212 sqm, Garage: 58 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 216
24 Mar 2020N/a
to build a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, effluent treatment system , 2. purafio modules and percolation area and all associated site works; Gross floor space of proposed works 212sqm + 58sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20382
7 Feb 2020Conditional
to (a) raise the roof on the existing domestic garage and create a usable first floor area (b) convert the domestic garage to a 2 bedroom Granny Flat (c) construct a single storey link extension between the dwelling house and the domestic garage, (d) make changes to the elevations of the existing garage and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 53.50 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20146
31 Jul 2019Conditional
for single storey extension to existing dwelling house consisting of domestic garage, living room, toilet and utility room and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 100.1 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 170.3 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12.3 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191189
2 Feb 2018Refused
for the development of sports pitches and associated facilities which will consist of the provision of the following: i) up to 5 no. playing pitches, ii) clubhouse/dressing rooms, iii) entrance/car parking facilities, iv) provision of associated facilities including floodlighting and wastewater treatment system, v) undertaking all associated landscaping and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 271 sqm.
Permission · Galway County Council, 18103
19 Jan 2018Unconditional
for the construction of a dwellinghouse, garage, sewage treatment unit and percolation area, previous planning ref. no. 12/1432 (gross floor space 239sqm)
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 1841
7 Feb 2017Unconditional
to construct dwellinghouse, garage and associated site services (gross floor space 218sqm). Previous planning reference no: 12/128
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 17131
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintemple.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballintemple.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintemple.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballintemple, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_527 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballintemple with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintemple · Baile an Teampaill
- Area
- 1,158,169 m² (115.82 ha, 286.19 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Ballintemple, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,609 people lived in 566 households in the Ballintemple electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Breanloughaun, Brockagh, Glenrevagh, Kiltullagh
- Placenames
- Ballintemple 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.