Ballyclery

195 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyclery, from 5 m² to 167,567 m² (16.76 ha, 41.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Ballyclery 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.

• 7 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 155.70 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460511

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  to (a) demolish the existing fire-destroyed dwelling. (b) For the construction of a new replacement dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site services, as a replacement dwelling Gross floor area of proposed works: 177.00 sqm (dwelling house 7.80 m High) and 60.00 sqm (garage 5.0m high).

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360035

• 29 Nov 2022Conditional

  Construction of dwelling house and garage.Gross floor space of proposed works in 184.28sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261184

• 9 Jun 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 207.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260596

• 13 Apr 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works . Gross floor space of proposed works : Dwelling House 155.7m2 & Garage 40m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260343

• 23 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a single dwelling house and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 170.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22390

• 14 Oct 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 155.7 sqm (house) & 40 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211908

• 28 Apr 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works: 155.7sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21688

• 30 Apr 2020N/a

  Permission for 1. Volunteer Centre & Toilet Block, 2. De-Commission of existing Septic Tank & construction of new waste water treatment system to serve both existing house & proposed volunteer centre and toilet block. Gross floor space of proposed works: 92 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20526

• 14 Oct 2019Refused

  (adjacent to protected structure - Thatched Cottage - previous P.P. No:-14/1376) for the following: 1. Rebuild and add 1st floor to existing stone and shed as Volunteer Centre and Stores/Tak Room for Forgotten Horses Ireland. 2. De-commission existing Septic Tank and Percolation Area and construct new Waste Water Treatment System to serve both existing house and Volunteer Centre. 3. All necessary ancillary site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191600

• 18 Dec 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater, wastewater treatment system and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 212sqm, Garage 46sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171821

• 28 Sept 2017Conditional

  for (1) a dwelling house, chalet and storage shed on revised site boundaries to pervious planning permission 72108 (2) to decommission of the existing septic tank and construct a treatment unit and all associated services (3) the removal of a lifetime enurement condition. Gross floor space of work to be retained Dwelling 268sqm, Shed 160.53sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171426

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• GA113-008 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the summit of a rise in rough grazing land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 262, no. 1b) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. 34.75m) defined by the foundations of a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA113-009 Burial ground
  Description

  On the S side of an E-W running byroad. Marked the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular 'Burial Ground' (c. 50m E-W; c. 36m N-S). Modern graves occupy its E half. Within the W half there is a deep linear fosse running N-S (L 34m; Wth 4m; D 1.75m), which is known locally as ‘the famine grave’. A number of small headstones (average H 0.2m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.08m), aligned N-S and similar to those in a children's burial ground, are visible to the E of the fosse. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 January 2020

• GA113-010001 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the foot of a steep S-facing slope in rough pastureland. This spring well, named 'Tobermacduagh' on the OS 6-inch maps, is defined by an overgrown rectangular drystone chamber (L 3.7m; Wth 3.2m; H 0.9m). It is filled with stones and no relics or votive offerings were noted. When recorded by Fahey (1893, 112-3) the 'Turas' associated with it was still being observed. Circa 5m to the SE is a small cairn (6.5m E-W; 5m N-S; H 1m) surmounted by a cross (GA113-010002-) dated 1820. Two other covered spring wells lie c. 15m to the W and c. 22m to the SW respectively. (Kelly 1914, 115-16) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 January 2019

• GA113-010002 Cross
  Description

  Circa 5m to the SE of a holy well (GA113-010001-). This simple Latin limestone cross (H 1m; arm span Wth 0.6m) is cemented into a stepped plinth of limestone blocks on the SE limits of a small cairn (c. 6.5m E-W; c. 0.5m N-S; H c. 1m). The slab is dressed on the SE face and sides but the NW face is unworked. It bears the INRI inscription on the SE face and is dated AD 1820. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 2 January 2018

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof having slightly raised ridge, and rendered chimneystacks. Exposed rubble limestone walls, rendered to east gable. Square-headed opening to front (south) elevation with half-glazed timber battened door, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Garden to front.

• House, 1940–1960 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1950. Pitched thatched roof with rendered copings and rendered chimneystack. Wetdash render to front (east) elevation having render quoins, plinth course and eaves course. Square-headed openings to front with raided render reveals and half-glazed timber battened door and replacement timber windows with painted sills. Rubble limestone outbuilding to east of house providing access to well, steps descending and accessed via decorative wrought-iron gate, also having stile.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house with attic, built c.1800. Pitched thatched roof with raised scolloped ridge, rendered copings and rendered chimneystack. Wetdashed rendered walls having smooth render plinth course, eaves course and quoins. Render surrounds to all openings continuing to eaves course. Square-headed doorway to front (north) elevation with timber battened door having glazed panel, with limestone step. Square-headed window openings to front with painted sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Garden to front with rubble and concrete boundary wall with hedging.

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 Ballyclery, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_576 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyclery · Baile Uí Chléirigh

Area

2,890,692 m² (289.07 ha, 714.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenavarra, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killeenavarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

903 people lived in 282 households in the Killeenavarra electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Dungory East, Gortaboy, Knockballyclery, Lisheeneenaun West, Tarrea, Tooreen East, Tooreen West

Placenames

Ballyclery 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.