Ballyeighter

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyeighter, from 143 m² to 105,954 m² (10.6 ha, 26.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballyeighter 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.

• 8 Feb 2026Conditional

  for a design change to a garage pursuant to planning permission 22548

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660185

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240.6 sqm (house) & 45 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22548

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 240.6 sqm (house) & 45 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22549

• 23 Dec 2020Conditional

  for the construction of a single storey dwelling house and domestic garage along with new treatment septic tank System to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 189 sqm, Garage: 52 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202043

• 19 Feb 2020Conditional

  for change of dwelling house type as previously granted under Planning Reference 19/1733 and associated garage and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 150 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20206

• 6 Nov 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 181.60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191733

• 3 Oct 2018Conditional

  for the change of house design to that previously granted under Planning Ref. No. 18/330 and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works - 222.5 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181386

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 208 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18330

• 2 Aug 2017N/a

  for the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 239sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171169

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyeighter.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell Roman Catholic Church, built c.1850, with altar to south end of three-bay nave, and having single-bay sacristy to west elevation. Pitched tiled roofs with tooled limestone cross finials to gables, and carved limestone square-profile pinnacles on decorative carved limestone brackets to corners, taller to front corners. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course and eaves course to gable-front. Pointed arch window openings with tooled limestone sills and stained glass. Tracery glazing bars to chancel window. Square-headed window openings to sacristy with stained glass, and render sills. Tudor-arch door opening to gable-front with tooled limestone surround having ribbon dressing and chamfer, and double-leaf timber battened door. Freestanding octagonal-plan tooled limestone holy water font outside main entrance. Timber Stations of the Cross and marble altar to interior, latter having plaster ceiling rose above. Stained-glass windows, and statues to nave. Carved stone font to entrance. Recent religious statue to grounds. Recent mild steel double-leaf pedestrian gates to road boundary set to rendered piers in rendered boundary walls.

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 Ballyeighter.

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

Name

Ballyeighter · An Baile Íochtair

Area

619,424 m² (61.94 ha, 153.06 acres)

Civil parish

Kilteskill, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Kilteskill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilteskill electoral division: 393 people in 131 households; 91% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aille, Ballinlawless, Knockash, Leamcon, Loughaun, Srahaunananta

Placenames

Ballyeighter 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.