Ballyboy

120 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyboy, from 58 m² to 109,848 m² (10.98 ha, 27.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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 Ballyboy 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 Aug 2026N/a

  for a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661356

• 22 Apr 2026N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660615

• 15 Jun 2025Conditional

  for an extension to the existing slatted shed to incorporate (a) slatted shed with underground tank, (b) a solid floor lie back, (c) calf rearing area, (d) meal silo, (e) covered dungstead, (f) all associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 235 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 185 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560769

• 25 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed work: (House) 299.00 sqm & (Garage) 40 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460941

• 4 Jul 2024Conditional

  for extensions and modifications to existing dwelling house to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 45.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460827

• 14 Oct 2021Conditional

  1. Extension to dwelling house 2. Agricultural Sheds, 3. Domestic Sheds. Permission is also being sought to construct a new wastewater treatment system on revised site layout on revised site boundaries to that permitted under planning reference 25166. Gross floor space or work to be retained: 197.5 sqm + 191.1 sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211899

• 3 Jun 2021N/a

  1. Existing Granny Flat extension to an existing dwelling house 2. Agricultural sheds 3. Domestic sheds 4. Agricultural entrance. Also to construct a new wastewater treatment system. All on a revised site layout on revised site boundaries to that permitted under planning reference 25116. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 196.8sqm + 199.1sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21972

• 18 Dec 2020Conditional

  for [a] retention of recessed road boundary wall and vehicular site entrance and [b] permission for dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment / percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201967

• 15 Oct 2020N/a

  for dwelling house, garage, on site waste water treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 218 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201525

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 61.7 sqm (House), 25.8 sqm (Garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201232

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Termon Lough SAC 001321

Recorded monuments

• GA128-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hillock in grassland. Named ‘Fort’ on OS Fair Plan. A poorly preserved subcircular rath (40m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by a bank. The fosse-like feature inside the bank at SE may be due to the natural slope of the hillock. Several breaches appear to be modern. A field boundary surrounds the enclosing element obscuring an traces of an external fosse. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA128-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (37m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse. A causewayed gap (Wth 5.5m) at E may be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA128-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (33.5m N-S; 29.8m ENE-WSW) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. Causewayed gaps at E and S appear to be modern. A field boundary abuts the monument at S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA128-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On 'Rose Hill' in grassland. The M18 now runs immediately to the SE. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 36m N-S; 32m E-W; c. 59m max. N-S); partially levelled by the time of the 1921 edition when the bank is only indicated from ESE to NNW. No visible surface trace survives. However, its outline is visible on the OSi Orthophoto. According to local information, the monument was levelled c. 1980. The cartographic evidence suggest it was a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying road over Ennis-Athenry railway line. Snecked rock-faced rusticated stone walls and parapets having recent render copings, arch flanked by pilaster-like buttresses. Dressed stone abutments with tooled rusticated stone copings. Tooled rusticated voussoirs and ashlar soffit to elliptical arch.

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 Ballyboy.

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.

• Ballyboy, Gort7 sales

Name

Ballyboy · An Baile Buí

Area

1,475,660 m² (147.57 ha, 364.64 acres)

Civil parish

Beagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield Demesne, Ballybaun, Caherbroder, Carhoon, Derry, Fiddaun, Lisheen, Sheeaun

Placenames

Ballyboy 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.