Ballinduff

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinduff, from 54 m² to 116,680 m² (11.67 ha, 28.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 44 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 Ballinduff 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.

• 24 Oct 2024Conditional

  for the retention of the front porch extension and the construction of an extension and make alterations to existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 27.25 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461420

• 3 Apr 2023Conditional

  for development consisting of (a) part single storey - part two storey dwelling house measuring 221m2, (b) single storey domestic garage measuring 45m2, (c) new boundary wall and vehicular entrance to public road, (d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360330

• 16 Nov 2021Conditional

  of revised boundaries & revised site entrance location to existing dwelling as built, (granted under planning ref 19929) also to include retention for extended garage area with garage repositioned on site along with all associated site works.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212133

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a development consisting of the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area & all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.33 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211730

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the construction of new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House -288.75 sqm, Garage - 40.5 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19929

• 23 Jan 2019Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 55.1 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1989

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Ballinduff Turlough SAC 002295

Recorded monuments

• GA114-003 Souterrain
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in scrubland overlooking a turlough to the SE. This drystone-built souterrain (L >9m) is roughly L-shaped in plan. The long axis runs NW-SE and the short axis extends from its SE end and runs NE-SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 September 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinduff, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_801 (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.

No address of the register names Ballinduff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballinduff · Baile an Duibh

Area

959,306 m² (95.93 ha, 237.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymarcahaun, Carrownamona, Coolfin, Corker, Lissatunny, Tullira

Placenames

Ballinduff 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.