Ballinlough

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 496 m² to 253,446 m² (25.34 ha, 62.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballinlough 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.

• 16 Dec 2022Conditional

  for change of house design on revised site layout previously granted under planning reference 22/60036.Gross floor space of proposed works 178.20sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261263

• 27 Jan 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 141 sqm (dwelling) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260036

• 14 Dec 2020N/a

  to construct a three bay single loose cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 60 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201923

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA125-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the summit of a hillock in hilly pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 26m). Apart from a very slight rise in the field level, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2019

• GA125-010 Crannog
  Description

  Formerly located in the SW end of Ballin Lough; the lake has subsequently been drained. Shown on the 1838 and 1920 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a small roughly wedge-shaped island (c. 30m NE-SW; c. 7-15m NW-SE). Labelled 'West Island' by Wood-Martin (1886, 222) and described by him as being 'connected' to the lakeshore during 'the dry season'. An 'excavation' conducted by Wood-Martin in the centre of the island produced 'Bog and clay, with a few bones' for the first 0.6m, beneath which 'wood ashes, full of charred bones' were encountered. On inspection the island was not discernible as it lay in a marshy area which was heavily overgrown with reeds and scrub. Two other crannogs (GA125-011---- and GA125-012----) also formerly lay within the lake c. 80m to the ENE and c. 260m to the E respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2020

• GA125-011 Crannog
  Description

  Formerly located within the SW end of Ballin Lough; the lake has subsequently been drained. A small roughly triangular-shaped island shown on the 1838 and 1929 editions of the OS 6-inch maps was investigated by Wood-Martin (1986, 222-3) who labelled it 'Middle Island'. An excavation conducted by him near the W extremity produced 'Peat and clay, with a few bones' for the first 0.25m, beneath which 'Wood ashes and peat, quantities of unbroken cherry stones, broken hazel nuts, broken animal bones and teeth, also a ball of red colouring matter' were found to a depth of c. 0.8m. Beneath this was a layer of basket flooring c. 0.3m thick under which were oak beams (L c. 15m), running N-S. Below the beams was a stratum of peat. The oak beams were sawn and pairs of dowels were visible at regular intervals. Ash poles secured these beams. The basket or wickerwork flooring was constructed of hazel rods. On inspection the island was not discernible as was is in a marshy area densely overgrown with reeds and bushes. Two other crannogs (GA125-010---- and GA125-012----) formerly lay within the lake. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 January 2020

• GA125-012 Crannog
  Description

  Formerly located in S half of Ballin Lough; the lake has subsequently been drained. Shown on the 1838 and 1920 OS 6-inch map as an irregularly pear-shaped island (c. 55m N-S; c. 12-40m E-W ). Labelled 'East Island' by Wood-Martin (1886, 223) who conducted an excavation in the centre of the island which produced 'four feet [c. 1.2m] of peat, and under it was shell marl, whilst for a radius of about twelve feet [c. 3.7m] around the island there were layers of irregularly-placed stones, small and flat; also at the SE shore there were two beams, seven inches [c. 0.2m] wide'. On inspection the island was not discernible; it lay in a marshy area densely overgrown with reeds and scrub. Two other crannogs (GA125-010---- and GA125-011----) were also formerly located within the lake. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 January 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinlough, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

807,348 m² (80.73 ha, 199.5 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballynagar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Commons West, Loughpark, Rosseeshal, Slatefield, Tulla

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.