Ballinvoher

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvoher, from 238 m² to 162,329 m² (16.23 ha, 40.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballinvoher 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.

• 15 Jul 2026Conditional

  for a domestic shed, including associated services at the rear of existing house

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2661190

• 16 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the change of use of the existing Montessori and childcare building to a studio apartment and all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 43.32 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560435

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  for a garage of 54sqm adjacent to my house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 54 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211835

• 26 Apr 2021Conditional

  and completion of garage also retention of single storey extension to the rear of the house approx. 12 sqm., also retention for an arch detail above the front door. The original planning ref # 02/4631 and 08/245. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension: 12 sqm, Garage: 50 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 62 sqm in total

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21676

• 4 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a domestic garage / turf shed at rear of dwelling. Gross floor space of proposed works: 72 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 19843

• 6 Oct 2017Conditional

  to increase the number of children attending from 15 (granted by P.P. Ref. No. 12/317) to 26 and to install a new proprietary treatment system.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171457

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  of an existing shed to the rear of existing site along with all associated site works. (Gross floor space of works to be retained: 90.32 sqm.)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 17565

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 Ballinvoher.

Recorded monuments

• GA071-001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a hollow in a otherwise flat field. According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' here which is now blocked up. Possibly a natural limestone cave. 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 Ballinvoher.

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 Ballinvoher, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_755 (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.

• Ballinvoher, Turloughmore10 sales

Name

Ballinvoher · Baile an Bhóthair

Area

551,074 m² (55.11 ha, 136.17 acres)

Civil parish

Lackagh, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Deerpark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,440 people lived in 449 households in the Deerpark electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barnaboy, Garrauncreen, Laragh More, Mira, Parkgarve

Placenames

Ballinvoher 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.