Ballynakill

77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 321 m² to 150,361 m² (15.04 ha, 37.15 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 Ballynakill 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.

• 27 Jun 2026Conditional

  to complete dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated services on revised site boundaries. (Previously granted under Planning Reference No. 22/776)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661082

• 18 Dec 2025Conditional

  for (a) construction of new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage/store, (c) wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, (d) new site entrance & (e) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 25347

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  of an existing treatment plant and permission to extend and upgrade the existing percolation area and all associated site services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461220

• 24 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the following development: (a) decommission existing agricultural entrance; (b) construction of a new agricultural entrance in lieu of original entrance; & (c) all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23340

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 145.6 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23107

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the following development: (a) construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and (e) all associated external site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 240 sqm, 82.49 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22776

• 10 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct a cow cubicle house, straw bed loose house between two existing sheds, silage base, filling apron, effluent tank, ancillary concrete yard and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 216.24 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2211

• 6 Dec 2019Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage tank, ancillary concrete area and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 319.68 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191887

• 18 Sept 2019Conditional

  for the following development; (a) Construction of a new dwelling (b) construction of a domestic garage and (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 297 sqm (Dwelling), 60 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191448

• 5 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the following development: a) Construction of a 3 Bay double slatted shed and b) all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Shed - 258 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19850

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  permission of an underground slatted slurry tank installed in an existing livestock house, and permission to construct an agricultural building to include a milking parlour, dairy with plant room, roofed side yard with cattle crush, and a store, permission to construct a slatted cubicle house with underground slurry storage, circular meal bin and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 304 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 50.24 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 19120

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Kilnaborris Bog NHA 000284

Recorded monuments

• GA108-021 Burial ground
  Description

  Within a densely overgrown tree copse in grassland. Marked on the 1945 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an rectangular unenclosed burial ground (c. 20m NE-SW; c. 15m NW-SE). A faint rise marks its location. Only one grave-marker (H 0.5m; Wth 0.5m) was noted, just NW of centre. A number of small stones visible throughout appeared to be field-clearance material. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 January 2020

• GA108-023 Quarry
  Description

  This record relates to a gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2015

• GA109-001 Quarry
  Description

  On a glacial ridge. The record was classified as Enclosure in the RMP (1997). A re-examination of the cartographic evidence indicates that it was named 'Gravel Pit' on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16). It is a disused and overgrown quarry pit. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2019

• GA109-002 Ritual site - holy well
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynakill, 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 Ballynakill.

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

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Coille

Area

2,425,407 m² (242.54 ha, 599.33 acres)

Civil parish

Clonfert, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Clonfert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

454 people lived in 157 households in the Clonfert electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbeyland Great, Brackloon, Cankilly, Cloonkea, Goatland, Gortaloughane, Lismore Demesne, Rooaun

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.