Ballynalahy

132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynalahy, from 26 m² to 82,777 m² (8.28 ha, 20.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynalahy 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 Ballynalahy 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Carrownagappul Bog SAC 001242
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Carrownagappul Bog 001242

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynalahy.

Architectural heritage

• Windfield House, farm house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey farmhouse or miller's house with half-dormer attic, c.1850, on a rectangular plan. Renovated, 2001. Replacement hipped slate roof including lean-to roofs to window openings to half-dormer attic (west), clay ridge tiles, paired limestone ashlar central chimney stacks having stringcourses below capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging eaves having paired consoles. Replacement rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered frieze. Segmental-headed central door opening with two cut-limestone steps, timber doorcase with fluted engaged columns on stepped plinths, and replacement moulded rendered surround framing glazed timber panelled double doors having fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement margined six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (side elevations) with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement six-over-six timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed window openings (west) with concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds with limestone ashlar piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting cast-iron double gates.

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballynalahy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballynalahy · Baile na Lathaí

Area

1,005,652 m² (100.57 ha, 248.5 acres)

Civil parish

Killian, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynakill electoral division: 647 people in 225 households; 88% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownagappul, Cloonavihony, Tully, Windfield

Placenames

Ballynalahy 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.