Ballinrooaun

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrooaun, from 433 m² to 339,613 m² (33.96 ha, 83.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballinrooaun 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.

• 13 Mar 2026Conditional

  for change of house and garage plans from those previously approved under planning reference 25/60833 along with associated siteworks

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660395

• 23 Jan 2026Conditional

  for 2 no. existing livestock sheds with underground slatted slurry storage tank. b) Permission for construction of a calf rearing shed, c) permission for construction of an agricultural shed with cubicles & underground slatted slurry storage tanks, d) and permission for construction of a silage slab & all associated site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660077

• 25 Jun 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, complete with vehicle access drive, a garage, installation of a sewage treatment plant with drainage and landscaping, complete with all site services and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 132.76 sqm(H), 56.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560833

• 30 May 2025N/a

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling, complete with vehicle access drive, installation of a sewage treatment plant with drainage and landscaping, complete with all site services and ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 132.76 sqm(H)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560684

• 23 Aug 2024Conditional

  for: (a) change of use of existing school to residential use as dwelling house with minor elevation changes, (b) to demolish existing boiler house and construct new rear extension, (c) to construct new site entrance to north of site and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed work: (House)180 sqm & (Extension) 17.4 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 7 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24248

• 24 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the demolition of existing derelict incomplete dwelling house previously granted under reference number 65827, construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling: 259.82 sqm, Garage: 55.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21224

• 29 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct Dwellinghouse Domestic Garage & proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 241.84 sqm (house) and 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191676

• 2 Feb 2018Conditional

  to 1) construct a domestic garage/garden store and 2) replace existing concrete block finished front boundary wall with higher natural stone wall, 3) all associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1898

• 23 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works (Gross floor space of proposed works: 278.14sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17721

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 Ballinrooaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA059-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Circular ringfort (D 34.4m), in fair condition, defined by two earthen stone-faced banks and an intervening fosse. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S, to E of which no visible surface trace of the outer bank survives. It is overlain by a field wall at SW. There is a probable souterrain (GA059-002001-) within the interior. (Claffey 1983, 146) 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

• GA059-002001 Souterrain
  Description

  In N sector of a ringfort (GA059-002----). It consists of an oval hollow (L 6.2m, Wth 3.4m), running NW-SE and up to 1m in depth. Traces of possible stone-facing are visible along the sides of the hollow and the base is quite uneven and stony. (Claffey 1983, 146) 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

• GA059-003 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On the summit of a hill in grassland. A fairly well-preserved almost circular rath (D 45.2m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank survives intermittently at N; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. (Claffey 1983, 145) 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

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

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 Ballinrooaun, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinrooaun · Baile an Ruáin

Area

2,626,440 m² (262.64 ha, 649.01 acres)

Civil parish

Moylough, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

976 people lived in 332 households in the Derryglassaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghnagrosheen, Carrownacregg West, Derryglassaun, Mullaghmore South, Windfield Demesne, Windfield Lower, Windfield Upper

Placenames

Ballinrooaun 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.