Ballydoogan

72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydoogan, from 50 m² to 142,183 m² (14.22 ha, 35.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballydoogan 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 2026N/a

  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

• 21 May 2021Conditional

  for retention of dwelling house and garage on revised site boundaries and for permission for the installation of a new bio-treatment unit and percolation area. Gross floor work to be retained: 130.58 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21877

• 16 Apr 2020Conditional

  for the following: 1.) Extension to House. Gross floor space of proposed works: 75 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20480

• 13 Sept 2018Conditional

  1) to refurbish existing house and construct storey and half extension to side of existing house 2) to construct domestic garage and septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works - extension, 192sqm and garage, 63sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181297

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 Ballydoogan.

Recorded monuments

• GA106-019 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 August 2014

• GA106-020 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pastureland, immediately to the NW of 'Ballydoogan House' (GA106-020001-). In existence in 1574 when 'Bealladugane' castle was in the possession of 'Tege Mc Gill patrick' (Nolan 1901, 111). Evidently still standing at time of the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map (see O' Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 495), but demolished by the time of 3rd edition (1933) when the words 'Site of' are appended. A photograph taken c. 1892 indicates that the tower house was in a ruined state and was at least three storeys high (O'Riordan 2015, 24). When initially visited by the Galway Survey in April 1983, it was noted that traces of a wall (L 1.95m; H 2.9m) with a base-batter (H 1.65m; splay 0.07m) were incorporated into the SE corner of the wall on outhouse. Another section of walling (L 4.1m; H 2.9m) also appeared to be incorporated into the E wall of an adjoining garden to the S of this building. It was concluded that the two sections of walling may have been the remains of the NE angle of the castle (SMR file). However, on re-inspection in June 2017, it was noted that the wall with the batter most likely continued further to the E as the digging of a trench (5m N-S; 2m E-W; D 2m) immediately to the rear of Ballyduggan House revealed the foundations of a wall (D c. 1m; Wth 0.4-5m), in line with this wall, in the W face of the trench. It is more likely that this the SW angle tower on an associated bawn wall. No visible surface trace of the tower house survived. However, a possible external wall-face (L c. 3m) was also evident running along the E side of the trench. The latter probably marks the site of the tower house and ties in with the evidence of the photograph. Architectural fragments including an arch stone of a doorway and the top of an ogee-window head, now located on the W wall of the garden, are most likely from the tower house. Other pieces of dressed stone from it have been reused in the outhouses to the rear of the house. A number of massive timber beams that have been reused as joists in an outhouse to the W are also likely to be from the tower house. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 28 August 2017

• GA106-020001 Country house
  Description

  The following description is from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (www. buildingsofireland.ie last accessed 10 July 2017): Detached three-bay two-storey country house over raised basement, built c.1760, with half-hexagon entrance bay to front elevation, and slightly recessed multiple-bay lower block to rear (north). Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and modillions to eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with cut limestone quoins to front elevation, and cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to front and side elevations, and mixed two-over-four pane and six-over-six pane windows, barred to basement, and twelve-over-twelve pane stairs window. Front elevation has moulded limestone window surrounds to front elevation and block-and-start to ground floor, latter with triple keystones. Square-headed door opening with carved limestone surround with fluted brackets and segmental pediment, approached by flight of limestone steps, with half-glazed double-leaf timber panelled door set within porch. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with half-glazed timber panelled door with multi-pane overlight, approached by rendered steps. Set within own grounds with demesne features extant. with half hexagon central bay built c. 1760. Rendered façade with exposed cut limestone quoins. Segmental pediment door case and Gibbsian window surrounds. Hipped slate roof with leaded ridge and hip with modillion bracketed eaves and four rendered chimneys. Front (south) elevation having square-headed six-over-six sliding sash windows with twelve-over-twelve, three-over-three, six-over-six all with cut stone to rear. Square-headed entrance doors to front and back. Site is located on a picturesque demesne with arched entrance on stone screen wall from the north approaching to courtyard to the rear elevation. Courtyard containing a variety of notable outbuilding. Built on the site of an earlier tower house (GA106-020----), Ballydoogan House has many of the features typical of the eighteenth century. Its form is interesting, having a block at the rear almost the same size as the main block. The full hight bay to the front, cut-stone dressings and quoins emphasise the formal properties of the structure. Burnt in 1922, it was rebuilt with modifications in 1929. It makes an interesting group with the White Bridge, the Rock Bridge, and the entrance gates. Uploaded by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2017

• GA106-022001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope, SW of Ballydoogan House. Well-preserved circular rath (diam c. 50m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse with an entrance gap at NW. A souterrain (GA106-022002-) and chapel (GA106-022003-) lie in the SW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA106-022002 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a rath (GA106-022001-). An undated report records the presence of an L-shaped souterrain '9 paces [c. 6.8m] N-S; 18 [c. 13.6m] E-W' with a 'lintelled roof' (SMR file). It has since collapsed and is now indicated by a heavily overgrown L-shaped hollow. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA106-022003 Chapel
  Description

  Within the SW quadrant of a rath (GA106-023001-). Very poorly preserved rectangular chapel (int. dims. 9.2m NE-SW; 4.1m NW-SE; wall T 0.4m). The SW gable (max. H 2m) is built into the bank of the enclosing rath and it is the best preserved wall. Apart from a doorway in the NE gable, no architectural features survive. A 20th-C burial vault occupies almost all of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA106-023 Bullaun stone (present location)
  Description

  In the garden of Ballydoogan House (GA106-020----). This roughly circular granite bullaun stone (diam. 0.6m; H 0.3m) with a central bowl (diam. 0.3m; D 0.2m) may have come from the ecclesiastical site in Kilmeen townland (see GA106-103001-, GA106-103003- and GA106-013004-) (information from Mrs. C. Besnyoe). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2017 The following image has been uploaded: GA106-023----_01.jpg

• GA106-024 Church
  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

• Ballydoogan House, gates/railings/walls, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Entrance gateway to Ballydoogan House, erected c.1820, comprising square-plan tooled limestone piers with carved cornices and stepped caps, flanked by lower matching piers, with replacement mild steel double-leaf gate, and wrought-iron single-leaf pedestrian gates. Rendered flanking walls, with wrought-iron pedestrian gate with rendered piers to garden of gate lodge. Latter is single-storey, three-bay, with pitched slate roof and rendered walls, rebuilt c.1980.

• Ballydoogan House, country house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey country house over raised basement, built c.1760, with half-hexagon entrance bay to front elevation, and slightly recessed multiple-bay lower block to rear (north). Hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and modillions to eaves. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with cut limestone quoins to front elevation, and cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and timber sliding sash windows throughout, six-over-six pane to front and side elevations, and mixed two-over-four pane and six-over-six pane windows, barred to basement, and twelve-over-twelve pane stairs window. Front elevation has moulded limestone window surrounds to front elevation and block-and-start to ground floor, latter with triple keystones. Square-headed door opening with carved limestone surround with fluted brackets and segmental pediment, approached by flight of limestone steps, with half-glazed double-leaf timber panelled door set within porch. Square-headed door opening to rear elevation with half-glazed timber panelled door with multi-pane overlight, approached by rendered steps. Set within own grounds with demesne features extant.with half hexagon central bay built c. 1760. Rendered façade with exposed cut limestone quoins. Segmental pediment door case and Gibbsian window surrounds. Hipped slate roof with leaded ridge and hip with modillion bracketed eaves and four rendered chimneys. Front (south) elevation having square-headed six-over-six sliding sash windows with twelve-over-twelve, three-over-three, six-over-six all with cut stone to rear. Square-headed entrance doors to front and back. Site is located on a picturesque demesne with arched entrance on stone screen wall from the north approaching to courtyard to the rear elevation. Courtyard containing a variety of notable outbuildings-see separate record.

• Saint Jarlath's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, dated 1846, having five-bay nave elevation, gabled porch to gable-front, and two-bay sacristy to east (altar) end of north elevation. Pitched slate roofs throughout, with cut limestone cross finials and pinnacles to gables, and with rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Roughcast rendered walls with render quoins and plinth course, and having carved limestone date plaque to west gable. Pointed arch window openings with cut limestone surrounds and leaded stained-glass windows. Y-traceried two-light window to upper part of west gable. Quatrefoil opening to east gable with cut limestone surround and stained glass. Square-headed replacement timber battened door to porch. Marble altar, and timber gallery over glazed timber screen porch to interior. Steel framed bell stand to site. Rendered and recent concrete block boundary walls.

• Ballydoogan House, bridge, 1720–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch bridge, built c.1740, carrying road over canalised river. Elliptical arch with cut-stone voussoirs, flanked by niches to both elevations. Dressed stone walls with cut-stone string course and copings. Piers to east end, with recent double-leaf gates. Recent stile using ex situ cut and carved stone. Revetments to canal banks. Set within Ballydoogan demesne.

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballydoogan · Béal Átha Dúgáin

Area

2,869,588 m² (286.96 ha, 709.09 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmeen, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilmeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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

Neighbouring townlands

Annaghbride, Ballydavid, Cooleeny, Drought, Kilcooly, Kilmeen, Knockbaron, Rafarn

Placenames

Ballydoogan 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.