Ballygrany
Townland in the civil parish of Ballymacward, barony of Tiaquin, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Uí Ghráinne
- Area
- 61.2 ha
- 151 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,619 m² (0.56 ha, 1.39 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygrany, from 92 m² to 131,317 m² (13.13 ha, 32.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygrany 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 May 2026Conditional
for new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter, domestic garage and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660778
24 Apr 2025Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment plant, polishing filter & domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 139.90 sqm(H), 37.56 sqm(G)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560486
26 Jul 2023Conditional
for a new dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant & polishing filter
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360846
20 Oct 2022N/a
new dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment plant & polishing filter.Gross floor space of proposed works 227.26sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261058
26 Oct 2021Conditional
to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house with waste water treatment system and private garage/fuel shed to include all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 115.54 sqm (house) & 53.94 sqm (garage/fuel shed)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211985
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballygrany.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygrany.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygrany.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballygrany.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballygrany with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygrany · Baile Uí Ghráinne
- Area
- 611,512 m² (61.15 ha, 151.11 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballymacward, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tiaquin
- Electoral division
- Cappalusk, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cappalusk electoral division: 416 people in 144 households; 94% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Gortbrack, Killooaun, Killooaun (Eyre), Mountbernard
- Placenames
- Ballygrany 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.