Ballydavid

41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydavid, from 31 m² to 340,734 m² (34.07 ha, 84.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballydavid 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.

• 4 Aug 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic garage/fuel store and dog kennel to the rear of their property and all associated site services

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661346

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  for a change of use of part of the existing national school to a before school/afterschool and preschool facility

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660871

• 23 Jul 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 381 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211352

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 Ballydavid.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-015 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 July 2015

• GA106-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying undulating pastureland. Oval rath (42m E-W; 20m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible only at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA106-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A low ridge running across the monument from NNE to SSW may indicate the line of a field wall that is indicated on 1st ed. OS map. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA106-178 Battlefield
  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

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-storey house, built c.1780, having three-bay ground floor and two-bay first floor to front (north-west) elevation. Now vacant. Pitched slate roof, hipped to north-east, with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and timber sliding sash windows, six-over-three pane to first floor and six-over-six to ground floor. Square-headed timber battened door. Two-bay two-storey outbuilding to yard to north of house, with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings, and single-bay outbuildings to side, having pitched corrugated-iron roofs. Wrought-iron pedestrian gate with rendered piers and boundary walls to front garden.

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 Ballydavid, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballydavid.

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

Name

Ballydavid · Baile Dháith

Area

1,366,460 m² (136.65 ha, 337.66 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcooly, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

672 people lived in 233 households in the Kilmeen electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydoogan, Ballynahistil, Carrowroe, Cooleeny, Kilcooly

Placenames

Ballydavid 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.