Ballygasty

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygasty, from 23 m² to 218,799 m² (21.88 ha, 54.07 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 Ballygasty 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.

• 20 Dec 2024Conditional

  for ground-mounted photovoltaic solar panels with a maximum actual square metreage of 1,340 m2 distributed over three grass areas and an embankment in combination with associated ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461798

• 26 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the construction of a equipment & tractor mower store and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 52.10sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260398

• 26 Feb 2021Conditional

  for the removal of 3 No. existing light stands with halogen lighting & the replacement & relocation with 6 No. lights stands with energy efficient LED lighting & all associated services to main playing pitch.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21255

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 Ballygasty.

Recorded monuments

• GA105-021 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In flat pastureland c. 1.75km N of Loughrea town. In existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'Mac Owg & Wm Mc Tibbot' (Nolan 1901, 112). Shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular roofed building (c. 14m N-W; c. 10m E-W) and labelled as 'in ruins'. Evidently demolished by the 1929 edition when the words 'Site of' are appended. All that survives is a mound of earth and stone of irregular plan (D 36m max., H c. 4m) on the surface of which are large displaced portions of mortared stone walls. The walls average 1.6m in thickness but do not appear to form any coherent plan. The mound occupies the SW corner of possible bawn (GA105-021001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 August 2021

• GA105-021001 Bawn
  Description

  In flat pastureland. On inspection in November 1982, a roughly square enclosure (25m N-S; 24m E-W) was noted to the E of an unclassified castle (GA105-021----). It was defined by a grass-covered stone wall. Current aerial imagery (OSi digitalglobe) suggests that enclosure was possibly a bawn wall that surrounded the castle, which occupies its SW corner. A farm roadway now cuts across it to the E of the castle site (Google Earth imagery dated 18/09/2020 last accessed 20/08/2021) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 August 2021

• GA105-229 Road - road/trackway
  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

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

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 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_990 (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 Ballygasty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballygasty · Bile Gasta

Area

1,146,078 m² (114.61 ha, 283.2 acres)

Civil parish

Loughrea, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Loughrea Rural electoral division: 898 people in 307 households; 92% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahernamuck East, Caheronaun, Cosmona, Curraghs, Graigue, Lackalea, Raruddy East

Placenames

Ballygasty 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.