# Ballygasty, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Loughrea, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Bile Gasta. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,146,078 m² (114.61 ha, 283.2 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,917 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Loughrea, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/loughrea.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Loughrea Rural, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20146 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60328 - Centre: latitude 53.2154, longitude -8.570339 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygasty, from 23 m² to 218,799 m² (21.88 ha, 54.07 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1974346: 218,799 m² (21.88 ha, 54.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974346.md - Parcel 1923786: 148,112 m² (14.81 ha, 36.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923786.md - Parcel 1974344: 112,373 m² (11.24 ha, 27.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974344.md - Parcel 1974348: 89,978 m² (9 ha, 22.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974348.md - Parcel 1923782: 85,194 m² (8.52 ha, 21.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923782.md - Parcel 1923785: 78,170 m² (7.82 ha, 19.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923785.md - Parcel 1923881: 73,168 m² (7.32 ha, 18.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923881.md - Parcel 1923781: 63,723 m² (6.37 ha, 15.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923781.md - Parcel 1974345: 35,536 m² (3.55 ha, 8.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974345.md - Parcel 4723099: 28,372 m² (2.84 ha, 7.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4723099.md - Parcel 1923792: 18,605 m² (1.86 ha, 4.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923792.md - Parcel 1974347: 18,179 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974347.md - Parcel 1923882: 15,065 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923882.md - Parcel 1923787: 13,827 m² (1.38 ha, 3.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923787.md - Parcel 1923783: 12,290 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923783.md - Parcel 1923790: 10,998 m² (1.1 ha, 2.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923790.md - Parcel 4794095: 10,677 m² (1.07 ha, 2.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794095.md - Parcel 1974343: 10,248 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974343.md - Parcel 1974352: 10,229 m² (1.02 ha, 2.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974352.md - Parcel 1923791: 8,993 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923791.md - Parcel 2723523: 7,803 m² (0.78 ha, 1.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2723523.md - Parcel 5001635: 7,398 m² (0.74 ha, 1.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5001635.md - Parcel 1974351: 5,378 m² (0.54 ha, 1.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974351.md - Parcel 1974349: 4,456 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974349.md - Parcel 4457756: 4,345 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457756.md - Parcel 1923788: 3,832 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923788.md - Parcel 4794101: 3,511 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794101.md - Parcel 1923784: 2,945 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923784.md - Parcel 4794099: 2,750 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794099.md - Parcel 4664842: 2,690 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664842.md - Parcel 4664844: 2,195 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664844.md - Parcel 4664838: 2,009 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4664838.md - Parcel 4997033: 1,997 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4997033.md - Parcel 1923789: 1,445 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923789.md - Parcel 2744936: 1,333 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744936.md - Parcel 4997036: 1,327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4997036.md - Parcel 1923880: 1,167 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1923880.md - Parcel 4565482: 913 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4565482.md - Parcel 4823041: 786 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4823041.md - Parcel 4744443: 613 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744443.md - Parcel 1974350: 495 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1974350.md - Parcel 4744446: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4744446.md - Parcel 2744937: 453 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2744937.md - Parcel 5912567: 437 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5912567.md - Parcel 4884643: 150 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4884643.md - Parcel 4703165: 23 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4703165.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 Dec 2024, Galway County Council 2461798: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461798/0 - 26 Apr 2022, Galway County Council 2260398: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a equipment & tractor mower store and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 52.10sqm. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2260398/0 - 26 Feb 2021, Galway County Council 21255: Conditional. Permission. 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.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21255/0 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 Ballygasty. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA105-021: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA105-021----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA105-021001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA105-229----. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygasty. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: 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: 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_990.zip (ZIP). - 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/ballygasty.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballygasty.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballygasty.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballygasty 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) - Cahernamuck East: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamuck-east.md - Caheronaun: https://everytownland.com/galway/caheronaun.md - Cosmona: https://everytownland.com/galway/cosmona.md - Curraghs: https://everytownland.com/galway/curraghs.md - Graigue: https://everytownland.com/galway/graigue-62371.md - Lackalea: https://everytownland.com/galway/lackalea.md - Raruddy East: https://everytownland.com/galway/raruddy-east.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/ballygasty - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballygasty