# Ballybackagh, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish An Baile Bacach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 317,576 m² (31.76 ha, 78.47 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,990 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ardrahan, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/ardrahan.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Castleboy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Castleboy electoral division: 571 people in 204 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19724 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60255 - Centre: latitude 53.139438, longitude -8.716875 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybackagh, from 182 m² to 60,143 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1935538: 60,143 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935538.md - Parcel 1935535: 46,577 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935535.md - Parcel 2016968: 43,415 m² (4.34 ha, 10.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2016968.md - Parcel 1935536: 36,724 m² (3.67 ha, 9.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935536.md - Parcel 4662007: 34,552 m² (3.46 ha, 8.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4662007.md - Parcel 1935534: 23,297 m² (2.33 ha, 5.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935534.md - Parcel 1935532: 5,068 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935532.md - Parcel 5156987: 4,139 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5156987.md - Parcel 1935537: 3,841 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935537.md - Parcel 4926548: 3,460 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4926548.md - Parcel 1935531: 2,831 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935531.md - Parcel 1935530: 2,764 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935530.md - Parcel 1935528: 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935528.md - Parcel 4661923: 2,275 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4661923.md - Parcel 1935533: 1,363 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935533.md - Parcel 1935529: 182 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1935529.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 4 applications, newest first. - 10 Jul 2026, Galway County Council 2661168: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the change of plans for an extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations to those previously approved under pl. ref. no. 25/60934 & for all ancillary services & site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661168/0 - 11 Jul 2025, Galway County Council 2560934: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a rear and side extension to an existing dwelling, including elevation alterations and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 97.00 sqm(extension). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560934/0 - 23 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21665: Unconditional. Extension of duration. for demolition and reconstruction of fire damaged licensed premises and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 355.91sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21665/0 - 31 Jan 2019, Galway County Council 19132: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 208 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/19132/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybackagh. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybackagh. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybackagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_871, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_871.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybackagh-60255.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybackagh-60255.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybackagh-60255.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballybackagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Bullaunagh: https://everytownland.com/galway/bullaunagh-60684.md - Castleboy: https://everytownland.com/galway/castleboy.md - Castledaly: https://everytownland.com/galway/castledaly.md - Cregganore: https://everytownland.com/galway/cregganore.md - Gortard: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortard-62238.md - Lisheeneynaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/lisheeneynaun.md - Pollacurra: https://everytownland.com/galway/pollacurra.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballybackagh-60255 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballybackagh-60255