Ballinlass

66 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlass, from 260 m² to 133,257 m² (13.33 ha, 32.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 45 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 Ballinlass 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.

• 22 Nov 2023Conditional

  to construct new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter domestic garage & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 264 sqm (house) & 55 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361400

• 29 Aug 2023Conditional

  to extend dwellinghouse & to reconstruct old derelict house for use as part of the existing dwelling to replace septic tank fit new treatment plant, raised polishing filter & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361022

• 21 Nov 2022Refused

  to extend dwellinghouse & to reconstruct old derelict house for use as part of the existing dwelling & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 13.02sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261165

• 24 May 2022Conditional

  of minor alterations to dwelling house and domestic garage to that granted under planning permission 06/4697 and all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22663

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  to construct a new slatted shed, with concrete aprons, concrete base for silage bales and all associated site works.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 1855

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 Ballinlass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinlass.

Architectural heritage

• Tirur Bridge, bridge, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge, built c.1870, over River Shiven. Segmental arches with cut limestone voussoirs with draughted margins to arch rings, coursed random rubble limestone infill to spandrels. Triangular cutwaters with triangular ashlar piers and pyramidal limestone copings. Squared and snecked rubble limestone projecting parapet with flat rubble limestone copings. Set in rural landscape with timber post and wire fence to adjacent fields.

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 Ballinlass, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinlass · Baile an Leasa

Area

2,306,598 m² (230.66 ha, 569.97 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Mount Bellew Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Ballynakill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

647 people lived in 225 households in the Ballynakill electoral division. 88% of households owned 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, Killosolan, Longford, Tirur

Placenames

Ballinlass 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.