Ballyculloo

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyculloo, from 535,977 m² (53.6 ha, 132.44 acres) to 535,977 m² (53.6 ha, 132.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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 Ballyculloo 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyculloo in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Lough Fingall Complex SAC 000606
• Special Area of Conservation: Kiltiernan Turlough SAC 001285
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Kiltiernan Turlough 001285
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Fingall Complex 000606

Recorded monuments

• GA103-012 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 30m) defined by a drystone wall obscured at E by field-clearance rubble. A souterrain (GA103-012001-) is associated. (McCaffrey 1952, 177, no. 68) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA103-012001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a rath (GA103-012----). Noted by McCaffrey (1952 177, no. 68); no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA103-013 Enclosure
  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.

• GA103-013001 Souterrain
  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 Ballyculloo.

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 Ballyculloo, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_722 (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 Ballyculloo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballyculloo · Baile Cholú

Area

534,762 m² (53.48 ha, 132.14 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolgan, 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

Cahernalinsky, Carraghadoo, Frenchpark, Keamsellagh East, Keamsellagh West

Placenames

Ballyculloo 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.