Ballynacorra (Ffrench)

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacorra (Ffrench), from 76 m² to 82,925 m² (8.29 ha, 20.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 47 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 Ballynacorra (Ffrench) 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.

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  for alterations to previously approved extension design granted under planning reference number 21/1741 to include the following: Omission of previously approved front porch extension, extensions to side and first floor extension to existing dwelling, to be replaced with proposed extension to side of existing dwelling with elevational changes, proposed alterations to internal layout and proposed relocation of previously approved garage/store and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 65.98 sqm (extension) & 40.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461193

• 2 Aug 2024Conditional

  to extend and reconstruct existing dwelling house, to install a new wastewater treatment plant and polishing filter, construct new domestic garage, to decommission old septic tank and soak pit and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (Garage) 36.56 sqm & (Extension) 134.04 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460989

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  for construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 278 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211740

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  for alterations/extensions to existing dwelling house including; A: proposed porch to front elevation, B: proposed extension to east-southeast side of dwelling house including dining area & lounge area, C: proposed extension to west-northwest side of dwelling house including 1 no. bedrooms, bathroom & utility/laundry room, D: proposed elevational changes to existing dwelling including; 1) existing rear kitchen door changed to proposed kitchen window, 2) existing bathroom window omitted, 3) existing rear bedroom window changed to proposed rear hall door, E: proposed first floor extension to include 2 bedrooms, bathroom & hot press, windows to rear elevation, window to west-northwest gable & velux windows to front elevation, F: proposed garage/storage shed, G: proposed vehicular entrance replacing existing agricultural entrance, H: proposed upgrade of existing septic tank to proposed proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 117.04 sqm (dwelling) & 40 sqm (garage). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 59.46 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211741

• 1 Apr 2021Conditional

  to erect a dwelling house and domestic garage/store and install a septic tank system and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 312.73msq

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21502

• 6 Feb 2017Conditional

  for change of house plans to those granted under planning reference no 13/673 and for domestic garage/fuel store. (gross floor area 266.28sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17121

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 Ballynacorra (Ffrench).

Recorded monuments

• GA032-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved almost circular rath (E-W 37m, N-S 36.5m) defined by a scarp and external fosse best preserved at S. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from W through N to NNE where a field wall cuts the monument. Possible entrance at NE. 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

• GA032-004 Quarry
  Description

  In pastureland. A roughly subrectangular hachured feature (NNW-SSE c. 20m; E-W c. 11m) marked on the 1931 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused sand pit defined by a hollow. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 1 October 2014

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynacorra (Ffrench).

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 Ballynacorra (Ffrench), 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynacorra (Ffrench).

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 Ballynacorra (Ffrench) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballynacorra (Ffrench) · Baile na Cora (Ffrench)

Area

1,417,020 m² (141.7 ha, 350.15 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Cloonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

353 people lived in 125 households in the Cloonkeen electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacorra (Davies), Ballynacorra (Netterville), Bleannagloos, Boherbannagh, Cloonfinnoge, Cloonkeen (Davies), Cloonkeen (Ffrench), Creeveroe (Ffrench), Kentstown, Lissavruggy

Placenames

Ballynacorra (Ffrench) 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.