Ballard

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 5,405 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres) to 277,484 m² (27.75 ha, 68.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballard 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.

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  development consisting of (1) construct a storey and a half dwellinghouse and a domestic garage (2) install a septic tank and percolation area and (3) carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 22333

• 30 Nov 2020Conditional

  development consisting of the following: (1) construction of a 634sq.m ventilated agricultural shed for the housing of sheep, (2) construction of a 376sq.m agricultural machinery and hay storage shed, (3) proposed 188 sq.m dungstead complete with a pre-cast concrete effluent tank (4) proposed new access road and entrance and to carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Sligo County Council, 20404

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 Ballard.

Recorded monuments

• SL019-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a rise in undulating pasture. Raised subcircular area (dims. 33m N-S; 31.6m E-W) enclosed from N-NNE-NE and at S by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. c.3m; H 0.25m). At E it is bounded by a linear bank, the last remnants of an otherwise levelled field boundary. From SW-W-N the defining element is a scarp (H 2.9m). No fosse. Immediately outside of the site at S and within the SW quadrant of the interior are two shallow pits. Stone-lined break in bank at SW (Wth. 1.2m) may represent original entrance. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on a low rise on a NE-SW ridge in pasture. Raised oval area (dims. 32.6m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by a wide, low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 6.75m; H 0.7m) with traces of a possible internal stone kerb. At W, at the upper edge of the external face of the bank, is a linear length of stone revetment (L 3m) which may be a later feature. At the external foot of the bank from W-NW-N is a fosse (Wth. 3.5m - 4m) with a low outer bank (Wth. 4m; H 0.4m). At SW the outer bank survives as a low rise whilst from WNW-N-NE it is largely overlain by a modern curving field boundary wall. Break in inner bank at E (Wth. 3.3m) with traces of accompanying causeway may represent original entrance. Within the SE quadrant of the internal area is a shallow, circular depression (diam. 2m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-037 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  Depicted as a circular enclosure bisected by into two roughly equal portions by the NW-SE townland boundary on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1913 edition it is depicted as a D-shaped enclosure whose straight side (L c 50m) is a formed by a NE-SW field boundary which is also shown as part of the townland boundary. A small portion of the enclosure at NE, marked by hachures, is shown outside the circuit of the remainder by the corner of a NW-SE and a NE-SW field boundary. There is a break in the defining element (L c 20m) from ENE-E-SE. A series of hachures define the remainder of the circuit. A linear hachured feature (L c 17m) extends into the interior from the centre of the straight side. This monument, almost certainly a rath, has been levelled and there are no remains now visible at ground level. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-039 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in rolling pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 10.4m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 2.8m - 3.7m; H 0.4m) with an internal fosse (Wth. 2.3m - 2.9m; D 0.5m). The E half of the central area is largely occupied by a horizontal concrete slab from which a pipe protrudes. Immediately W of this is a shallow depression and a scattering of stones. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-040 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  Situated on a low rise in rolling countryside. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 13m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 2.7m - 3m; H 0.25m) with an internal fosse (Wth. 2.5m; D 0.5m). Original entrance not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-041 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  Situated on a low ridge on a W-facing slope in pasture. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 11.7m E-W; 11.5m N-S) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth. 3.3m; H 0.3m). No fosse. The monument, particularly the perimeter, is thickly overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 19 January 2011

• SL019-209 Burnt mound
  Description

  Situated towards the NNE end of a narrow, flat-bottomed valley, aligned NNE-SSW, within which numerous fulachtaí fiadh occur over a distance of c. 1.5km. Glimpses of burnt stone and charcoal occurs for a length of c. 12m on the E side of a NNE-SSW field drain which extends along the valley floor. In addition some mound material occurs in a low sod-covered bank of upcast which borders the drain. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2011

• SL019-210001 Burnt mound
  Description

  In wet pasture, located on the floor of a narrow NE-SW valley. One of a series of fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. This burnt mound comprises a low, D-shaped mound (c. 11m NE-SW; c. 9.6m NW-SE; H 0.85m at SE) whose straight side, at NW, is formed by a NE-SW drain which bisects the monument. On the opposite side of the drain is a low bank of upcast burnt mound material and beyond this is a surface spread (10m NE-SW; 4m NW-SE) of shattered sandstone and charcoal. A second burnt mound (SL019-210002-) occurs 10m to SW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2011

• SL019-210002 Burnt mound
  Description

  In wet pasture, located on the floor of a narrow NE-SW valley. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. A low, D-shaped mound (13m NE-SW; 7.7m NW-SE; H 0.8m) with the straight side at NW formed by a NE-SW field drain. In the drain section the layer of burnt stone and charcoal has a depth of 1.3m. A second burnt mound (SL019-210001-) occurs 10m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2011

• SL019-211 Burnt mound
  Description

  In wet pasture, located in the base of a narrow NE-SW valley, adjacent to the NW side of a NE-SW field drain, with traces of an old stream bed curving around the W side of the mound. One of several fulachtaí fia and burnt mounds which occur over a distance of c. 1.5km along the flat-bottomed valley. This mound was levelled during land reclamation works in the early 1990's. Remains comprise a roughly circular spread (diam. c. 8m) of shattered sandstone within a charcoal-rich matrix. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 May 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballard with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Ballard · An Baile Ard

Area

582,425 m² (58.24 ha, 143.92 acres)

Civil parish

Dromard, and its townlands

Barony

Tireragh

Electoral division

Toberpatrick East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Toberpatrick East electoral division: 232 people in 88 households; 85% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlig, Ballinphull, Bunnafedia, Carrowflatley or Carrownaglogh, Carrowgilpatrick, Lisnarawer

Placenames

Ballard 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.