Ballaghymurry

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghymurry, from 140 m² to 551,357 m² (55.14 ha, 136.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballaghymurry 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.

• 14 Sept 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561322

• 10 Aug 2024Conditional

  to construct a slatted slurry storage tank. Retention of an extension to an existing calf shed and retention of existing calf shed & retention for existing slatted slurry storage tank. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 909.76 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461028

• 16 Feb 2024N/a

  to: (1) construct extension to existing dwelling house including alterations to elevations, (2) change of use of existing veterinary surgery to granny flat accommodation and carry out alterations to elevations and construct extension to proposed granny flat, (3) demolish existing fuel store and (4) construct new domestic garage along with associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45 sqm (garage) & 20 sqm (extension) & 52 sqm (change of use veterinary surgery). Gross floor space of any demolition: 29 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460159

• 22 Aug 2023N/a

  for the: (a) construction of a calf shed extension to an existing shed; (b) to construct a slatted slurry storage tank; (c) retention permission for existing calf shed; (d) retention permission for existing slatted slurry storage tank

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360988

• 18 Feb 2021Conditional

  to construct dwelling house along with domestic garage and to connect to public sewer along with all ancillary site development works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 174 sqm, Garage: 6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21194

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 Ballaghymurry.

Recorded monuments

• GA002-001 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In rolling grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 50m by c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA002-002 Enclosure
  Description

  In rolling grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a subrectangular enclosure (c. 40m by c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. 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

• GA002-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently rolling grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular platform (E-W c. 40m, N-S 37m) defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse. 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

• GA002-004 Quarry
  Description

  On the brow of a low hill in rolling pastureland. A hachured area depicted on the 1929 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a shallow gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 July 2014

• GA002-005 Well
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballaghymurry, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballaghymurry · Bealach Uí Mhuirígh

Area

1,605,815 m² (160.58 ha, 396.81 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcroan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballymoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 151 households in the Ballymoe electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonee, Cloonruff, Cornamucklagh, Durrow, Gilkagh East, Gilkagh West, Knockogonnell, Lisnageeragh

Placenames

Ballaghymurry 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.