Ballaghduff

57 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghduff, from 706 m² to 229,731 m² (22.97 ha, 56.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Ballaghduff 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.

• 3 Mar 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a five bay double slatted shed including 2 no. underground slurry tanks and calf creep areas along all ancillary and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 520 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21279

• 27 Jun 2018Conditional

  to construct a slatted shed with calf creep area, handling facilities and ancillary concrete. Gross floor space of proposed works 415.14 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18879

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 Ballaghduff.

Recorded monuments

• GA031-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved oval rath (N-S 28.5, E-W 23.2) defined by an overgrown earthen bank and external fosse; due to quarrying no visible surface trace of the fosse survives from S to W. Several breaches in the bank appear modern. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballaghduff, 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 Ballaghduff.

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

Name

Ballaghduff · An Bealach Dubh

Area

1,922,331 m² (192.23 ha, 475.02 acres)

Civil parish

Kilkerrin, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Shankill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

355 people lived in 131 households in the Shankill electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonconore, Curraghlehanagh, Killasmuggaun, Marganure, Milltown, Rockfield East, Shankill East, Slieveroe

Placenames

Ballaghduff 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.