Ballydavid Middle

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydavid Middle, from 1,878 m² to 290,077 m² (29.01 ha, 71.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 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 Ballydavid Middle 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.

• 29 Sept 2025Refused

  for a period of 10 years for a development consisting of the provision of the following: i. 8 no. wind turbines with an overall turbine total tip height range of 178m - 185m, a rotor diameter range of 149m - 163m, and turbine hub height range of 101m - 104m, and associated foundations and hard standing areas; ii. A permanent 38kV substation compound (including a control building (157.6 sqm) with welfare facilities, all associated electrical plant and apparatus, security fencing, underground cabling, storage containers, wastewater holding tank, site drainage and all ancillary works); iii. Permanent underground electrical (38kV) and communications cabling to the existing Cashla Substation in the townland of Barrettspark (including joint bays, communication and earth sheath link chambers and all ancillary works along the route). This cabling route is primarily located within the public road corridor which includes protected structures (RPS No. 3747, RPS No. 146). iv. Underground electrical (20/33kV) and communications cabling connecting the wind turbines and meteorological mast to the proposed on-site substation; v. 2 no. temporary construction compounds (including site offices and welfare facilities (with a combined floor area of 202.5 sqm); vi. A meteorological mast with a height of 30 meters, security fencing and associated foundation and hard-standing area; vii. Upgrade of existing site tracks/ roads and provision of new site access roads, junctions and hardstand areas, including a new site entrance off the L3115; viii. Peat and Spoil Management Areas; ix. Tree felling and vegetation removal; x. Biodiversity enhancement measures (including peatland habitat enhancement, Marsh Fritillary habitat enhancement and management, establishment of hedgerows and native woodland planting); xi. Site drainage; xii. Operational stage site signage; and xiii. All ancillary works and apparatus. A thirty five-year operational life from the date of full commissioning of the wind turbines and subsequent decommissioning is being sought. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and accompany this application. An Opinion on Unconfirmed Details issued by Galway County Council (Opinion Ref. No. 25/MP/2) on 29th May 2025 accompanies this application. The details unconfirmed in this application are the turbine total tip height, rotor diameter and hub height. The range of parameters un

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561412

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 Middle.

Recorded monuments

• GA084-004 Castle - tower house
  Description

  On a low hillock in undulating farmland which falls away gently to the S. This tower house was in existence in 1574 when 'Balledavy' castle was in the possession of 'the Abbay [sic] of Athenry' (Nolan 1901, 121). Only a section of the N wall (L 5m; H c. 9m; wall T 1.6m at base; wall T 1.3m above batter) and a short length of the return of the of adjoining E wall (L 1.5m, H 1m) survive. It is constructed of roughly coursed rubble and mortar. Apart from a noticeable base-batter, the only architectural feature is part of a window ope at the frayed W end of the N wall, c. 4m above ground level. A stony ridge probably marks the position of the W wall, suggesting an E-W length of c. 9-10m. This corresponds closely with Lyons' notes on the castle made in early 20th century which recorded its dimensions as 10.05m by 13.7m (Cody 1989, 344-5). The tower house was built in the NE section of a subrectangular grass-covered platform (22m N-S, 18m E-W) that is defined by a scarp (H 1m). A medieval church (GA098-006001-) lies c. 290m to the SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 August 2021

• GA084-005 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In gently rolling pastureland. A ‘Castle (in ruins)’ is named on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map among a group of small group of buildings and while it is unclear to which building it refers, it most like was the largest one in the group. It is depicted on the OS 25-inch plan dated 1892 as the remains of a roughly square building (c. 14m N-S; c. 13m E-W), only its E wall and the returns of the N and S walls are shown. It was omitted from the subsequent 25-inch plan dated 1927-8 (Cody 1989, 345-6). According to Cody (ibid.), this was done on the on basis of information provided by a local antiquarian (Matilda Redington) who noted that ‘the ruins were probably those of farmhouse of the Dominican monks at Athenry and not a castle’. Without details of the building it is not possible to verify this and the possibility remains that it could have been a castle. No visible surface traces survives. A number of farm buildings have been built to the S it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 August 2021

• GA084-157 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pastureland. A circular enclosure (diam. c. 24m) is visible on Google Earth aerial imagery dated March 2018 and on OSi digitalglobe imagery (2011-2013). Identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. Possibly a ring-barrow. The following image has been uploaded: GA084-157-----_01.jpg Google Earth image (March 2018) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 July 2022

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballydavid Middle.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_866 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballydavid Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballydavid Middle · Baile Dháibhí Láir

Area

820,500 m² (82.05 ha, 202.75 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Athenry

Electoral division

Aughrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aughrim electoral division: 1,317 people in 436 households; 89% of households own their home; 45% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydavid North, Ballydavid South, Carrowntober East, Carrowntober West, Mountain North, Park, Skeaghaderreen

Placenames

Ballydavid Middle 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.