# Ballydavid, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcooly, barony of Leitrim, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Dháith. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,366,460 m² (136.65 ha, 337.66 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 10,086 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcooly, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kilcooly.md - Barony: Leitrim - Electoral division: Kilmeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20022 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60295 - Centre: latitude 53.20393, longitude -8.463005 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydavid, from 31 m² to 340,734 m² (34.07 ha, 84.2 acres); 21 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1971789: 340,734 m² (34.07 ha, 84.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971789.md - Parcel 1926514: 117,246 m² (11.72 ha, 28.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926514.md - Parcel 1926522: 109,139 m² (10.91 ha, 26.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926522.md - Parcel 5937263: 106,361 m² (10.64 ha, 26.28 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5937263.md - Parcel 1971781: 96,817 m² (9.68 ha, 23.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971781.md - Parcel 4462063: 92,311 m² (9.23 ha, 22.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462063.md - Parcel 5800770: 64,045 m² (6.4 ha, 15.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5800770.md - Parcel 1926509: 56,551 m² (5.66 ha, 13.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926509.md - Parcel 1971782: 46,730 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971782.md - Parcel 2113333: 43,363 m² (4.34 ha, 10.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2113333.md - Parcel 1926508: 42,253 m² (4.23 ha, 10.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926508.md - Parcel 1971778: 40,934 m² (4.09 ha, 10.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971778.md - Parcel 5635851: 26,699 m² (2.67 ha, 6.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5635851.md - Parcel 1926511: 23,960 m² (2.4 ha, 5.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926511.md - Parcel 1971787: 22,265 m² (2.23 ha, 5.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971787.md - Parcel 1926518: 18,320 m² (1.83 ha, 4.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926518.md - Parcel 1926520: 16,830 m² (1.68 ha, 4.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926520.md - Parcel 1971786: 16,389 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971786.md - Parcel 1926513: 13,951 m² (1.4 ha, 3.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926513.md - Parcel 1926521: 10,856 m² (1.09 ha, 2.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926521.md - Parcel 1971788: 10,086 m² (1.01 ha, 2.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971788.md - Parcel 1926517: 7,378 m² (0.74 ha, 1.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926517.md - Parcel 4462064: 6,821 m² (0.68 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4462064.md - Parcel 1926609: 6,470 m² (0.65 ha, 1.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926609.md - Parcel 1971785: 4,317 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971785.md - Parcel 1926515: 3,899 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926515.md - Parcel 1971784: 3,843 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971784.md - Parcel 1971777: 3,545 m² (0.35 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971777.md - Parcel 1971780: 2,515 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971780.md - Parcel 1926606: 2,149 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926606.md - Parcel 1926510: 1,939 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926510.md - Parcel 5945221: 1,681 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5945221.md - Parcel 1926516: 1,579 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926516.md - Parcel 1926607: 1,431 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926607.md - Parcel 1926512: 488 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926512.md - Parcel 1971779: 298 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971779.md - Parcel 1926610: 175 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1926610.md - Parcel 5800773: 102 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5800773.md - Parcel 4618979: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618979.md - Parcel 4618980: 50 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4618980.md - Parcel 1971783: 31 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1971783.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 4 Aug 2026, Galway County Council 2661346: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. for the construction of a domestic garage/fuel store and dog kennel to the rear of their property and all associated site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661346/0 - 29 May 2026, Galway County Council 2660871: Conditional. Permission. for a change of use of part of the existing national school to a before school/afterschool and preschool facility. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660871/0 - 23 Jul 2021, Galway County Council 211352: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/211352/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballydavid. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA106-015: Quarry, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-015----. This is a disused gravel pit. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 July 2015 - GA106-016: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-017----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA106-178----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - House, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 30410607, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=GA®no=30410607. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydavid.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydavid.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydavid.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydavid with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway: https://everytownland.com/galway.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballydoogan: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydoogan-60305.md - Ballynahistil: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballynahistil.md - Carrowroe: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowroe-61033.md - Cooleeny: https://everytownland.com/galway/cooleeny.md - Kilcooly: https://everytownland.com/galway/kilcooly.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballydavid - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballydavid