Ballybaun

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybaun, from 399 m² to 104,623 m² (10.46 ha, 25.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 8 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 Ballybaun 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.

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of works:167.02 sqm(H), 40.31 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560388

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage / fuel store with wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 277.03 sqm (House - 227.32 sqm, Garage - 49.71 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191215

• 18 Jul 2019Conditional

  for (a) a new single storey extension (gross floor area of extension = 52.24 m2) and alterations to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works, (b) Retention and Completion of the alterations and change of use of the existing barn, the new treatment plant and percolation area and associated site works in accordance with planning ref. no. 19/121. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension to house - 52.24 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 167.89 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191096

• 14 May 2019Conditional

  of an existing 5-bed dwelling of 261.72 m2 and detached garage of 57.40 m2 on a site with revised boundaries, a revised entrance location, a revised height to the dwelling, a revised area to the garage and a revised location of the existing house and garage on the site, to that approved under planning reference number 04-2128. Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 261.72 sqm, Garage - 57.40 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19723

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  for alterations to the existing house, construction of a new 2-storey extension to the house (gross floor area of extension to house = 149.88 sqm. 1st floor to barn 60.72 sqm.), alterations and change of use of the existing barn to a 2-bed dwelling, the installation of a new treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Extension to House - 149.88 sqm; 1st Floor to barn - 60.72 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retrained: House - 167.89 sqm; Barn - 76.50 sqm

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 19121

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 Ballybaun.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybaun.

Architectural heritage

• Clonbrock, gate lodge, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey gate lodge with dormer attic, c.1900, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch), clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond off-central chimney stack having chevron- or saw tooth-detailed stringcourse below capping supporting terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and cast-iron rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed (west) or paired square-headed (east) window openings (gables) with cut-limestone sills, and red brick block-and-start surrounds framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set back from line of road opposite entrance to grounds of Clonbrock with cut-granite monolithic piers to perimeter supporting flat iron gate.

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 Ballybaun, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1187 (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.

• Ballybaun, Ahascragh6 sales

Name

Ballybaun · An Bhuaile Bhán

Area

676,180 m² (67.62 ha, 167.09 acres)

Civil parish

Ahascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Clonbrock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

606 people lived in 209 households in the Clonbrock electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboggan, Clonbrock, Clonbrock Demesne, Derrymore, Kilglass, Lattoon

Placenames

Ballybaun 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.