Ballybroder
Ballybroder is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmeen, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Bhruadair.
Parcel 5884526
- Area
- 71,488 m² (7.15 ha, 17.67 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballybroder
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1047 (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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 66.7 ha
- 165 acres
- Land parcels
- 24
- registered freehold, median 8,313 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybroder, from 1,130 m² to 95,295 m² (9.53 ha, 23.55 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybroder 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Sept 2023Conditional
of (a) changes to elevations of dwellinghouse, (b) construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the dwelling (c) conversion of attic into storage space & home office, (d) changes to domestic garage, (both dwelling & garage granted planning permission under planning ref. no. 05/3467) (e) & all associated site services (f) retain all works on revised site boundaries
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361089
9 Feb 2021Conditional
for development consisting of the replacement of existing dwelling house with a new super energy efficient dwelling house, new site entrance and associated site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 142 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 147 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 90 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21135
26 Jun 2020Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services, Gross floor space of proposed works; 223.73sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20832
17 Apr 2020Conditional
for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 271.03 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20490
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybroder.
Recorded monuments
- GA106-008 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the summit of a low hill in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. Abutting the monument at NW is a rectangular annexe (26m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by a bank; it may be associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybroder.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballybroder, 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1047 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybroder with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybroder · Baile Uí Bhruadair
- Area
- 666,623 m² (66.66 ha, 164.73 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Loughrea
- Electoral division
- Kilmeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybroder, Kilboght, Kilmeen, Lecarrow, Moyleen
- Placenames
- Ballybroder 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.