Ballynahivnia

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahivnia, from 38 m² to 102,448 m² (10.24 ha, 25.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballynahivnia 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.

• 17 Jul 2026N/a

  for construction of proposed dwelling house, domestic garage/shed, proprietary treatment system, percolation area and associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661208

• 23 Dec 2024N/a

  for a provision of new package treatment system and associated Soil Polishing Filter to replace existing soakpit system on site, and provision of new vehicular site access onto the L31134 and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461806

• 9 Dec 2024Conditional

  and completion of alterations to elevations and floor plans, reduction of gross floor area and removal of two storey extension with minor amendments to site layout to that previously granted permission under planning ref: 24/60399. No changes are proposed to the site boundary, the location of the vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area which are to remain as per granted permission. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 55.00 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461680

• 12 Apr 2024Conditional

  for the change of use from cheese making plant to dwelling house, alterations & demolition to the existing elevations, construction of a two storey extension, wastewater treatment plant and percolation area and all associated site development and external works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 91 sqm (house) & 174.19 sqm (extension). Gross floor space of any demolition: 6 sqm

  Permission, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2460399

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the development which will consist of the construction of 1) an extension to existing cubicle shed 2) construction of a new silage slab and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works Silage slab 666sqm and shed 668 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211360

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct a new domestic garage and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 54 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17357

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 Ballynahivnia.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-009 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (43.3m N-S; 40.7m E-W)defined by a bank at S and elsewhere by a scarp. A field wall overlies the enclosing element throughout. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

• GA097-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (c. 24m N-S) defined by a degraded bank at SE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

• GA097-011 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On flat ground to the N of a stream, commanding a river crossing c. 60m to the SE. Named ‘Riverville Castle (in ruins)’ on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this rectangular tower house (11m N-S; 9.6m E-W) is reputed to have belonged to 'a Mac Hubert Burke' (Topgr. Files, NMI) and is probably of late-16th or early 17th-century date. It survives to a height of four storeys. It was built on a plinth (H 1.2m) of crude random coursed mortared limestone and the walls are of random coursed dressed limestone and dressed quoinstones; the latter have been robbed out at the SW, NW and NE corners to a height of 3m. A base-batter rises to a height of 5m. All four walls bear ivy growth and the E, W and N walls are almost totally covered with it. The original doorway, placed off-centre in the E wall, has been robbed out as has the external wall-face to its N. The doorway accessed a lobby with an overhead murder-hole. From the lobby, doorways led to the main ground-floor room to the W and to an intramural stairs to the S. In the main room horizontal gun loops are set into deep embrasures in the S, W and N walls, it is possible that they are later insertions into the original slit windows. None of the floors survive but corbel sockets indicate they were wooden. There is a stone vault between the 2nd/3rd floors. Above the 1st floor the stairs spiralled clockwise to the top of the tower but it is entirely broken out so access is not possible to the upper floors. The 1st floor is divided into a main room with the subsidiary chamber housing the murder-hole to its E. A fireplace is visible in the N wall of the main room. Wall recesses are visible on various floor levels. The garderobe exit chute is visible externally at the E end of the N wall. A number of windows have been robbed out. The surviving examples consists of flat and ogee-headed single lights; two of the latter on the 3rd floor in the E wall are opposite two in the W wall. There are cross loops on the NE and SE angles at 2nd-floor level. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26/08/2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballynahivnia, 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 Ballynahivnia.

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

Name

Ballynahivnia · Béal Átha na hAibhne

Area

648,038 m² (64.8 ha, 160.13 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconierin, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilconierin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

741 people lived in 238 households in the Kilconierin electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 58% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownagower, Carrowrevagh, Dunsandle, Lecarrow, Lickerrig, Lissalondoon

Placenames

Ballynahivnia 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.