Ballydonnellan West

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonnellan West, from 133 m² to 274,705 m² (27.47 ha, 67.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballydonnellan West 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 West 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 West.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-033 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1985 to be a disused quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

• GA098-142001 Burial
  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.

• GA098-142002 Burial
  Description

  The source of this record is a reference to ‘graves’ which local tradition identified as associated with the Battle of Aughrim (SMR file). This record was entered on the statutory Record of Monuments and Places (issued 1997) as ‘Battlefield – possible’. While it is possible that these may be burial places there is no evidence to support it being classified as a battlefield. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 8 August 2017

• GA098-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pastureland. This subcircular enclosure (NE-SW c. 30m; NW-SE c. 26.7m) was brought to the attention of the Survey by Jean-Charles Caillère who identified it on Google Earth satellite imagery dated March 2018. A NW-SE running field boundary clips the enclosing element at NNW and NNE. The monument is marked on the current OSi digital mapping and is visible on the OSi Ortho and digitalglobe aerial imagery. Possibly a rath. The following image has been uploaded: GA098-147----_01.jpg Google Earth, imagery dated 20 March 2018. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 West, 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 West.

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

Name

Ballydonnellan West · Baile Uí Dhónalláin Thiar

Area

1,154,970 m² (115.5 ha, 285.4 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

Ballinlaur, Ballydonnellan East, Cloonmain, Eastwell, Lackagh, Shanballycolman

Placenames

Ballydonnellan West 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.