Ballynew

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynew, from 420 m² to 95,473 m² (9.55 ha, 23.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballynew 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.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to an existing dwelling and the construction of a new effluent treatment plant and all associated services. The extension consists of the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling, the conversion of the attic space to residential use and for minor alterations to the existing dwellinghouse. Previous planning permission number 25/61618 refers

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660831

• 6 Nov 2025Conditional

  for the provision of an extension to the side of, and for alterations to, an existing dwelling, and for the replacement of an existing septic tank with a proprietary effluent treatment plant

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561618

• 28 Feb 2020Conditional

  for the construction of dwelling house, domestic garage and proprietary treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 200.6 sqm (house) and 60 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20266

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 Ballynew.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynew.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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 Ballynew.

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

Name

Ballynew · An Baile Nua

Area

564,601 m² (56.46 ha, 139.52 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoona, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballinduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinduff electoral division: 725 people in 241 households; 92% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinduff, Ballydonnellan, Balrobuck Beg, Grange, Inish, Kilroe

Gaeltacht

In an Irish-speaking area

Placenames

Ballynew 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.