Ballintober

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober, from 376 m² to 274,811 m² (27.48 ha, 67.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballintober 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.

• 6 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete apron and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: (slatted shed) 126.94 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2533

• 21 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed to include concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: shed 81.34 sqm, feed passage 51.84 sqm, aprons 129.95 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24136

• 20 Nov 2020N/a

  to construct a farm machinery storage shed and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 343.13 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201763

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 Ballintober.

Recorded monuments

• GA086-033 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (ENE-WSW 33m, NNW-SSE 26.6m) defined by a bank. Gaps at WSW and NW appear modern. According to local information, the outer bank was removed in 1974 during land development. Within the interior is a probable souterrain (GA086-033001-). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-033001 Souterrain
  Description

  In NW quadrant of a ringfort (GA086-033----). According to local tradition, there is a 'cave' within this ringfort. All that is visible is a nettle-filled depression (L 5.7m, Wth 2.2m), running ENE-WSW and up to 0.5m in depth. The landowner removed a large slab from here some years ago. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA086-034 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballintober, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballintober · Baile an Tobair

Area

540,270 m² (54.03 ha, 133.5 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Killaan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

572 people lived in 200 households in the Killaan electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Ballybaun, Ballyglass, Clooncallis, Corraneena, Killagh More, Loughaunnavaag

Placenames

Ballintober 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.