Ballybackagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybackagh, from 104 m² to 565,979 m² (56.6 ha, 139.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballybackagh 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.

• 6 Feb 2026Conditional

  for the construction of an extension to the side of an existing dwelling and all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660176

• 23 Apr 2021Conditional

  to construct a three bay slatted cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 132.5 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21658

• 16 May 2018Conditional

  to construct a serviced dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 195 sqm. (garage) 32 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18632

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 Ballybackagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-002 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 37.8m) defined by a much-collapsed dry stone wall. No visible surface trace of it survives from ESE to SE. 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

• GA084-138 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In level pasture. This ring-barrow is defined by a roughly circular central mound (17m ESE-WNW; 15m NNE-SSW), which is surrounded by a well-preserved fosse (Wth 2.4-2.7m; D 0.7-0.8m) and a substantial bank (Wth 6.55-7.5m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.6-0.7m) of earth and stone. A causewayed entrance (Wth 3.5m) cuts through bank and across fosse (Wth 6m) at ESE. A NNW-SSE running trackway (Wth 2.7m) truncates the edge of outer bank at W. A shallow circular depression (diam. c. 11m) is visible within the interior to the W. The following images, courtesy of M. O'Leary, have been uploaded: GA084-138----_01.jpg GA084-138-----02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 July 2023

• GA084-148001 Boulder-burial
  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.

• GA084-148002 Boulder-burial
  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 Ballybackagh.

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 5 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 Ballybackagh.

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

Name

Ballybackagh · An Baile Bacach

Area

1,287,881 m² (128.79 ha, 318.24 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughrim electoral division: 1,317 people in 436 households; 89% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinloughaun, Caherateemore South, Carnaun, Peakroe, Tobernavean

Placenames

Ballybackagh 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.