Ballyhugh

318 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhugh, from 3 m² to 134,729 m² (13.47 ha, 33.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 43 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 161 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M2Town Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 81 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 12 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Commercial/Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R4Residential (Phase 2) (Strategic Residential Reserve)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential Infill (New/proposed residential)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N2.1Water/Rivers/Streams (Water)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.2Industrial (General industry)
  Gort Local Area Plan 2025-2031, Galway · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 May 2026Conditional

  for the completion of a comercial & residential development with alterations to those previously approved under pl ref 21/867 & all associated site works, services, landscaping & open spaces

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2660832

• 26 Nov 2025Conditional

  FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT CONTAINING 4 NO. TERRACED DWELLINGS, ASSOCIATED HARD & SOFT LANDSCAPED AREAS & ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS & SERVICES. PERMISSION IS ALSO SOUGHT TO DEMOLISH 1 NO. SUBSTANDARD DWELLING & ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 4 homes · Galway County Council, 2561741

• 26 Sept 2025Refused

  of the sub-division of the property into two individual living units and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561395

• 15 Aug 2025N/a

  for change of use of part of the existing dwelling, as retained and granted under Planning Ref. 25/60386, to allow for subdivision into two independent residential units and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561131

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  to insert two number Automatic Opening Vents into the forward projecting gables and for all associated works. Protected Structure RPS no. 442

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560400

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the temporary change of use of 11 x apartments to its current use as accommodation for protected persons to include two ground floor apartments, three first floor apartments and six second floor apartments and associated common areas for a period of three years

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560390

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  and completion of the conversion of the side garage to living quarters which is attached to the dwelling house, retain and complete the extension to the dwelling house, retain the new slates erected on the roof of the existing dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2560386

• 19 Mar 2025Unconditional

  on previous PL ref: 19988, for the construction of a Pastoral Centre, and all associated services and connections. Gross floor space of proposed works: 213.8 sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 2541

• 13 Aug 2024Conditional

  to extend the existing ramp to facilitate access at ground floor level for (Protected Structure N.I.A.H. 30341019). The extended ramp will include new handrail all to match existing in situ

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461036

• 4 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the demolition of rear domestic extension and retention and completion of rear domestic extension and alterations. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 61.46 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 23.60 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460830

• 1 Jul 2024N/a

  and completion of 8 dwelling houses - 9 to 16 inclusive Garraí Mhic Aodha, and to construct 32 dwelling houses - 17 to 20 inclusive Garraí Mhic Aodha and 1 to 28 inclusive Gort An Choirce. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2,969.86 sqm

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2460812

• 27 Jun 2024Conditional

  for the partial conversion of garage to living accommodation ancillary to existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 17.2 sqm (garage) & 31.7 sqm (part garage conversion)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460789

• 8 Jun 2023Conditional

  of 1 to 4 Cillin Court on revised site boundaries to that previously granted under 06/4518

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360626

• 8 Mar 2023N/a

  and completion of 8 dwelling houses - 9 to 16 inclusive Garraí Mhic Aodha, Ballyhugh, Gort and to construct 32 dwelling houses - 17 to 20 inclusive Garraí Mhic Aodha and 1 to 28 inclusive Gort An Choirce, Ballyhugh, Gort. Gross floor space of proposed works: 2, 969.86 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 682.08 sqm

  Retention, 2 homes · Galway County Council, 2360216

• 21 Feb 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a new two storey dwelling with an enclosed roof terrace, within the footprint of the existing walls of dilapidated stables. Gross floor space of proposed works: 96.8 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 43.01 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 1.3sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2358

• 6 Dec 2022Conditional

  for change of use from shop unit to use as a restaurant / cafe with ancillary take away facilities. Gross floor space of proposed works: 88.20 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2261207

• 21 Nov 2022Conditional

  for development consisting of; demolition of the existing school buildings, all associated out buildings, structures, play shelters etc. Construction of a new 2-storey primary school with a total floor area of circa 2,537 sqm incorporating 12 general classrooms, 2 S.E.N. classrooms, GP hall and ancillary accommodation. Modification to main entrance gate of Tubber Road. Modification extend to St. Colman's Park entrance. Localized road realignment works and new footpaths along the Tubber Road including controlled zebra crossing. Erection of totem signage associated with St. Colman's Park. (signage area of circa 8sqm). Provision of external store (circa 12.25 sqm), vehicular drop-off set-down and on-site parking, associated hard and soft play surfaces, boundary treatments, heat pump enclosure, associated site development works and all other ancillary services. A Nature Impact Statement (NIS) will be submitted to the planning authority with this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: circa 2,537 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: circa 653 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 221185

• 21 Oct 2022Conditional

  for (1). change of use of ground floor units No. 1 & No.3 from commercial to Preschool and after School service and (2). amalgamation of units No1. & No. 3 (3) All associated site works and services. Gross floor space of existing units 169.9 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 221126

• 29 Sept 2022Conditional

  for the installation of roof mounted Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Panels on the existing roof of the retail premises.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260981

• 2 Jun 2022Refused

  of elevation alterations to apartment and creche block previously granted under 18/741.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260571

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  for the installation of roof mounted Photovoltaic (PV) Solar panels on the existing roof of their industrial premises.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2260403

• 19 Apr 2022Refused

  (1) Demolish 1 no. substandard dwelling house & (2) to construct 3 no dwelling houses all previously permitted under planning reference number 06/5464. Gross floor space of proposed works: 332.5sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22514

• 4 Apr 2022Refused

  for the change of house plans on 16 sites previously granted permission under Planning Ref Nos 08/2336 & 14/502. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1703.2 sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22444

• 4 Apr 2022Refused

  for changed house plan on sites '1 to 73' previously granted permission under pl. Ref. No 08/2336 & 14/502 & 19/738. Gross floor space of proposed developents: 6546 msq.

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22445

• 4 Apr 2022Refused

  to construct (1) 132 no. houses comprising 5 no. single storey detached houses, 8 no. detached 2 storey houses, 30 no. 2 storey semi detached houses, 50 no 2 storey semi-detached houses, 39 no 2/3 storey terraced houses. (2) 6 no. 2 bed apartements/creche/2 no. shop units and associated signage in 1 no. 3 storey block. (3) All associated site development works to include car parking, riverside walk/access, playground and amenity areas, roads, paths and boundaries/landscaping. (4) All associated services including foul sewage sump and pumping plant, development of the full capacity of a water supply bore hole on site with pump house and treatment plant and 80m cubed water storage tank to supply water to the development and adjoining areas. (5) 2 no. ESB sub-stations and 1 no. meter room (gross floor space 17,117.8sqm)( Previous planning ref no.08/2336) Previous planning Ref. No. 14/502 & 18/741

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 22446

The 25 most recent of 62 applications.

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 Ballyhugh.

Recorded monuments

• GA122-003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pastureland, at the base of a slope on the E side of a marshy hollow. This well-preserved spring well is enclosed by a small wedge-shaped chamber (1.4m N-S) that opens to the NNE (Wth 1.3m; H 1.6m) and narrows towards the rear (Wth 0.5m; H 1.1m). It is roofed with three broad thin limestone lintels (max. L 1.36m; Wth 0.5m; T 0.15m) and five stone steps lead down to the water. The side-walls are constructed of heavily mortared roughly coursed limestone blocks and the E side is bulging inwards. No votive offerings were noted but a whitethorn bush is growing close by to the S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2022

• GA122-004 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In low-lying farmland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 40m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall best preserved from SE through S to NW. Elsewhere heavy overgrowth has obscured the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 7m) at NW may be modern. Within the interior, and just NNW of the centre, is an oval-shaped mound of collapsed stone. To S of this is a souterrain (GA122-004001-). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA122-004001 Souterrain
  Description

  In the SW quadrant of a cashel (GA122-004----). The entrance to this souterrain is blocked up with a flagstone and access is impossible. According to the landowner, an 'underground passage' extended from the flagstone, in a northerly direction, towards an area of collapse which is evident to the NW of the centre of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA122-006 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.

• GA122-006001 Graveyard
  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.

• GA122-008 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.

• GA122-093 Town
  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

• Saint Colman's Hall, school, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey limestone-fronted former school, built c.1870, with full-height gabled projecting end bays to front elevation and recent full-width two-storey flat-roofed extension to rear. Formerly in use as community hall, now heritage centre. Pitched artificial slate roof with cut limestone chimneystacks to end gables, copings, finials and eaves course. Snecked front walls with cut-stone plat band between floors, and carved limestone plaque with 'St Colman's Hall' inscribed to central bay. Rendered walls to other elevations. Square-headed window openings with limestone label-mouldings, tooled sills and voussoirs and replacement timber windows. Square-headed doorway with replacement double-leaf timber door with paned overlight, having moulded render surround. Cast-iron pedestrian gate and railings to shallow forecourt between projections to front of site.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End of terrace two-storey house, built c.1860, having five-bay ground floor and three-bay first floor. Pitched artficial slate roof with rendered end chimneystacks, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Channelled lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, render sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed central doorway with moulded render surround and replacement uPVC door and fanlight, with glazed timber panelled door set to inner side. Fronts directly onto street.

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced five-bay three-storey former house, built c.1850, with integral central carriage arch, and having canted bay window to ground floor at north-east end. Now in use as offices. Pitched artficial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and cut limestone eaves course. Rendered walls and quoins with rendered sill courses upper floors. Square-headed windows openings with moulded render surrounds, having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows, including one tripartite window, to most of south-eastern three bays, and replacement uPVC windows elsewhere. Round-headed doorways flanking carriage arch, with cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and decorative keystones, and half-glazed timber panelled doors with plain fanlights. Segmental carriage arch has cut limestone voussoirs and block-and-start surround, with double-leaf timber panelled doors. Shallow gardens to front of house, with red brick boundary walls having limestone plinths and copings and decoratrive wrought-iron railings.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace double-pile three-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with office to ground floor and flat-roofed multiple-bay two-storey extension to rear. Pitched sprocketed slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with moulded render sill course to top floor, cut-stone sill course to first floor, and cut-stone plinth course. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds, first floor having cornices and with pediment surmounted on scroll brackets to central bay. Timber sliding sash windows to upper floors and side elevation, tripartite four-over-four pane to top floor and six-over-nine pane to first floor, with panelled timber internal shutters. Six-over-six pane windows with cut limestone sills to side elevation. Replacement margined timber display windows to ground floor with tooled limestone sills, and having decorative metal window guards. Recessed square-headed double-leaf timber panelled door with geometric glazing to overlight, with half-glazed timber panelled door to inner side.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched artficial tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds, painted sills and replacement timber windows. Round-headed door opening to north-east end with painted carved stone Gibbsian surround with decorative keystone, intersecting timber tracery to fanlight, timber battened door and limestone threshold. Timber and render shopfront having moulded timber cornice, render fascia and pilasters with plinth blocks, square-headed display window over render stall riser, and square-headed glazed timber panelled shop door with overlight.

• T. Lally, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with pubfronts to ground floor, flanking doorway to house. Built as one of pair. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds with timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three pane to top floor and six-over-six pane to first floor. Round-headed doorway to house has painted stone Gibbsian surround, fanlight and timber panelled door. Recent pubfront to south-west comprising square-headed timber display window and timber battened half-door with plain timber fascia. Shopfront to north-east comprises square-headed four-pane timber display windows with window guards, flanking square-headed glazed timber door, all surmounted by timber fascia with painted trompe-l'oeil lettering, moulded cornice and base, latter with carved timber brackets to each side of openings.

• Finnegan, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with shopfronts to ground floor. Built as one of pair. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Pebbledashed walls to upper floors, smooth rendered around house doorway. Square-headed window openings to upper floors having replacement uPVC windows, raised render reveals and render sills. Round-headed doorway to house with painted stone Gibbsian surround, spoked fanlight and timber panelled door. Timber shopfronts, that to north-east being recent modification to square-headed display window and square-headed double-leaf timber panelled door. Older shopfront has moulded cornice, render pilasters with rusticated panels, scroll consoles with gabled tops, plain fascia with painted trompe-l'oeil lettering, square-headed display window and shop door.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with recent timber pubfront to whole of ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls, render quoins, moulded render eaves course and render sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Moulded render surrounds and painted stone sills to top floor and fluted pilasters, brackets and dentillated cornices to first floor.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with recent timber shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed replacement timber windows to upper floors with render sills. Round-headed doorway to house with painted stone Gibbsian surround, spoked fanlight, limestone threshold and timber panelled door.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and render eaves course. Rendered walls with render quoins, and render sill course to first floor. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds to top floor with painted sills, and decorative fluted surrounds with moulded cornices to first floor, with replacement uPVC windows. Shopfront comprises fluted render pilasters and scroll consoles, render cornice, replacement uPVC fascia, altered square-headed display window with replacement uPVC frame and shop door, and square-headed replacement uPVC house door with limestone threshold and step.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1800, with shopfront to ground floor. Now also in use as café. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings to upper floors with moulded render surrounds, painted sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Shopfront comprises fluted render pilasters, render cornice and fascia, square-headed display windows flanking double-leaf timber panelled door, with half-glazed timber panelled door set within lobby. Square-headed doorway to house, having render pilasters, bracketed cornice, and timber panelled door with paned overlight, and limestone step. Abutting row of outbuildings to rear with rubble limestone walls, integral elliptical carriage arch and square-headed openings with timber battened fittings.

• Weighbridge/weighhouse, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached single-bay single-storey former weighhouse, built c.1880. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone walls with tooled plinth. Square-headed window openings with block-and-start surrounds, tooled sills and replacement timber windows. Square-headed door opening with block-and-start surround and timber panelled double-leaf door. Wrought-iron crane, cast-iron hydrant and cast-iron weighbridge to site. Set within Market Square.

• Críost Rí, monument, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding monument, erected c.1930, comprising life-size sculpted marble figure of Christ the King on carved square-profile tapering limestone pedestal with inscription and having carved celtic interlace panels to base and below statue, and 'Críost Rí' to front panel. Set on octagonal cut limestone plinth with planting around and bounded by decorative wrought-iron railings and gate with cut limestone plinth.

• Allied Irish Bank, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced six-bay three-storey bank, built c.1810, but probably formerly two three-bay houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, moulded limestone eaves course. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with stepped plinth, render panels to middle of ground floor, and slight render plat band at top floor sill level. Square-headed window openings having moulded render surrounds, painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door openings to end bays, with moulded render surrounds, overlights and timber panelled doors, with limestone steps. Bank front comprises intermittent render pilasters, moulded cornice, plain fascia, pediments to southern doorway and one window.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced three-bay three-storey house, built c.1810, with replacement timber shopfront to ground floor, and now also in use as shop. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and moulded limestone eaves course. Rendered walls having render plat band at top floor sill level. Square-headed window openings with render surrounds and replacement uPVC windows to upper floors. Timber shopfront evokes traditional examples and comprises fluted panelled pilasters with carved consoles, supporting fascia with moulded dentillated cornice, bowed display windows over panelled stall risers, flanking recessed glazed timber shop door with overlight. Glazed timber door to house with overlight and cut limestone steps.

• House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Corner-sited end-of-terrace two-bay three-storey double-pile house, built c.1810, with shopfront inserted to ground floor. Now in use as shop and offices. Pitched M-profile slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded limestone eaves course. Rendered walls and render quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, limestone sills and replacement aluminium windows. Square-headed door opening to doorway to upper floors with painted carved stone surround, replacement uPVC door and rendered steps. Render cornice and nameplate to both elevations. Timber framed display windows to Barrack Street elevation. Square-headed recessed shop doorway flanked by replacement uPVC display windows, with polished limestone stall riser and render steps.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1820 as one of pair. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, cast-iron rainwater goods and moulded limestone eaves course. Render removed, exposing dressed limestone walls. Square-headed window openings to upper floors, with tooled limestone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Elliptical arch to ground floor former shopfront, with dressed limestone voussoirs, cut-stone sill, and replacement uPVC window. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone pilasters, brackets and cornice, having replacement uPVC door and overlight, approached by flight of cut limestone steps, latter also continuing to front former doorway of former shopfront.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house over raised basement, built c.1820 as one of pair. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls with painted stone string course with moulded brackets to ground floor. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills, and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with painted stone block-and-start surround, and replacement timber panelled door and spoked fanlight, with render steps.

• Silverfort, house, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house over basement, built c.1850, with lower two-storey single-bay wing to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and external louvred shutters. Timber sliding sash windows, square-headed to first floor and tripartite and camber-headed to ground floor, having tooled limestone sills throughout. Round-headed door opening with cut limestone block-and-start surround, timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and flight of cut limestone steps with rendered retaining walls having flat cut limestone copings. Recent wrought-iron pedestrian gate and rubble stone boundary walls to front of site. Set within its own grounds.

• Saint Colman's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built 1825. Canted chancel, and sacristy added 1876. Building altered and extended 1892, and substantially altered again c.1935 with side aisles added. Three-bay nave elevation with clerestorey and lean-to side aisles, full-height single-bay transepts, four-stage tower to north-west corner with steeple, and single-bay two-storey annex to front elevation and apse, sacristy and extension to south elevation. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings, limestone cross finials to transepts and front elevation, wrought-iron cross finial to apse, rendered chimneystack to sacristy, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Snecked rock-faced rusticated limestone walls with cut limestone plat bands and octagonal-profile corner turrets to east end of front elevation, stepped diagonal buttresses to corners of tower and transepts, and stepped buttresses to other side elevations. Carved string courses to tower with decorative courses including quatrefoils. Pointed arch windows to nave, transepts and chancel, mainly paired, tripled to side aisles and triple-light to transept gables, all having chamfered cut limestone surrounds and stained-glass windows, with hood-mouldings to transept gables. Quatrefoil window to apex of front elevation. Pointed arch openings to top stage of tower with trefoil-headed metal louvred windows, pointed arch openings to other stages, tripled and with hood-mouldings to second stage. Shallow triangular-headed window openings to sacristy. Pointed arch door openings to end bays of front elevation, with carved stone hood-mouldings, mosaic panels to tympanums, and double-leaf timber battened doors. Central doorway has pointed-arch opening set in moulded limestone surround with cross finial, square-profile corner buttresses with pinnacles, carved roll mouldings, carved marble panel to tympanum, and double-leaf timber battened doors. Date carved to gable. Marble arcaded interior separating nave and side aisles with clustered piers having sculpted bosses to capitals, marble altar and rendered reredos set in apse. Open arch-braced A-framed truss roof with hanging posts, carved timber gallery to rear over glazed screen wall and carved timber confessionals to east long wall. Cut limestone steps to entrance, with snecked rusticated curved flanking walls with terminating square-profile ashlar limestone piers forming plinths for carved marble statues, and having ornate cast-iron railings. Carved marble Celtic cross to centre of forecourt, on stepped plinth. Ornate cast-iron double and single-leaf pedestrian gates, with cast-iron piers, atop flight of limestone steps, terminated by cut limestone square-plan piers with corbelled-out pyramidal caps, and flanked by rock-faced snecked limestone walls with ornate wrought-iron railings.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Mid-row single-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to ground floor. Now also in use as auctioneer's offices. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with decorative render quoins and platband. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, having cornice and fluted pilasters to first floor, painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber shopfront comprising timber cornice and name plate over square-headed double-leaf timber battened door flanked by timber display windows with timber sills over rendered stall risers. Single render console bracket with shamrock motif and ball finial to northern end of shopfront.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced L-plan property, built c.1820, forming inner corner of rows of buildings, and comprising three-bay west-facing block with two-bay block to north-west. Now also in use as public house and restaurant. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks and painted stone eaves courses. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed window openings with moulded render surrounds, having fluted pilasters and cornices to first floor, and painted stone sills to top floor, all with replacement timber windows. Full-width recent shopfronts to ground floors.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1820 as one of pair, with shopfront to ground floor. Now also in use as shop and office. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals, painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed doorway to house, having painted cut-stone Gibbsian block-and-start surround with decorative keystone, timber panelled door with spoked overlight, and cut limestone steps. Shopfront comprises timber pilasters, full-width timber fascia, and dentillated cornice, square-headed timber display windows with curved upper corners, central recessed square-headed door opening with curved corners having square-headed glazed timber door and decorative timber panel above, all on cut limestone plinth. Limestone threshold to door opening.

• Keane's, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfront to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded limestone eaves course. Pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed doorway to house with render cornice surmounted on brackets, having replacement timber panelled door, paned overlight, and cut limestone steps. Shopfront comprising full-width moulded render cornice and nameplate with raised lettering, and with one fluted timber pilaster to south end having console. Square-headed opening with timber display windows flanking recessed square-headed door opening with glazed timber double-leaf door with overlight.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey former house, built c.1820, with recent timber shopfront to ground floor. Now in use as shop and office. Pitched tiled roof with rendered chimneystacks and cut limestone eaves course. Dressed limestone walls, render removed. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement timber windows. Round-headed doorway leading to upper floors having cut limestone block-and-start surround with decorative keystone and half-glazed timber panelled door with plain fanlight and cut limestone step. Shopfront has canted doorway flanked by display windows with rendered stall risers.

• M. Barry, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house, built c.1820, with shopfronts to ground floor. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and moulded limestone eaves course. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having replacement uPVC windows, and painted stone sills. Round-headed door opening with painted stone Gibbsian surround, limestone steps and timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Shopfront to south comprising square-headed metal-framed display window, and recessed door opening with glazed timber door having overlight. Timber shopfront to north comprises timber fascia with raised lettering and carved cornice, over carved pilasters flanking timber nameplate and square-headed opening timber battened double-leaf door with paned overlight, flanked by boarded-up display windows with render sills and stall risers.

• House, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace four-bay three-storey house, built c.1820. Now in use as doctors' surgery. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and painted render eaves course. Pebbledashed walls with rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed door opening with painted stone Gibbsian surround with moulded lintel, timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Cut limestone plinth wall with wrought- and cast-iron railings to front of site.

• Gort Library, church/chapel, 1805–1815 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan limestone former Church of Ireland church, built c.1810, with two-bay nave, three-stage tower to west gable, full-height transepts, and lower chancel to east elevation, with crenellated canted porch to north re-entrant corner of chancel and nave and similar annex to south. Now in use as library. Pitched slate roofs with cut-stone copings, tower having spire and crenellations. Crenellations also to porch and annex, cut-stone finials and cross finials to gables, corner pinnacles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed walls with stepped corner buttresses, and having cut-stone string courses to tower. Pointed arch stained-glass three-light window to east gable with cut limestone block-and-start surround. Pointed arch louvered openings to top stage of tower. Pointed arch window openings elsewhere with replacement windows. Pointed arch door openings to porch and south side of tower with chamfered limestone block-and-start surrounds and timber battened doors with cut limestone steps. Graveyard to south incorporating former convent orchard. Double-leaf cast-iron gate, flanked by ashlar limestone piers with chamfered edges, limestone plinth wall with cast-iron railings. Set within its own grounds.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey limestone house, built c.1860, with recent five-bay three-storey extension to rear. Now also in use as restaurant. Pitched slate roof with dressed chimneystacks, cut-stone eaves course and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled sills and timber sliding sash windows, three-over-three to top floor and six-over-six pane to lower floors. Square-headed door opening with cut limestone surround having moulded cornice and brackets, timber panelled door with overlight and cut limestone steps. Cut limestone plinth wall with cast-iron railings to front of site. Set back from street.

• House, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay three-storey limestone house, built c.1860. Pitched slate roof with dressed chimneystacks, cut-stone eaves course. Dressed walls. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed door opening with retaining arch of dressed voussoirs, painted limestone surround having moulded cornice and brackets, with timber panelled door, geometric overlight and cut-stone threshold. Cut-stone plinth wall with cast-iron railings to front of site. Set back from street.

• Bank of Ireland, bank/financial institution, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced six-bay three-storey building, built c.1860, probably formerly two houses. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods on wrought-iron eaves brackets. Painted lined-and-ruled rendered walls, with channelled rendered to ground floor, and moulded corner between lower floors. Square-headed window openings to upper floors, with decorative render cornices and brackets to first floor, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Round-headed openings to ground floor, cornice above incorporating keystones, and fixed timber windows with spoked fanlights, over render stall risers and sills. Doorways to end bays, northern now converted to accommodate ATM and southern having double-leaf timber panelled door with spoked fanlight. Limestone plinth wall with wrought-iron railing to front of site. Set back from street.

• Saint Patrick's Convent, house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  End-of-terrace three-bay three-storey former house, built c.1800, converted to convent and extended to rear (south-west) c.1860, having portico to front entrance, full-height bow to south-east gable, seven-bay two-storey wing to rear, with adjoining four-bay chapel. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, limestone bellcote to south-east elevation and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls, channelled rendered walls to ground floor of front elevation. Square-headed window openings, front elevation having moulded render surrounds, shouldered-and-kneed to first floor and pedimented to ground floor, with painted stone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Venetian-style entrance comprising round-headed doorway with rustcated jambs, flanked by square-headed sidelights, latter with cut-stone sills and replacement glazing, moulded cornice to openings, moulded archivolt with raised keystone, and timber panelled door. Portico comprises polished granite Doric columns with limestone plinths and capitals, surmounted by limestone entablature with plain frieze and carved cornice. Round-headed door opening to south-east elevation with painted cut-stone block-and-start surround and decorative keystone, with replacement uPVC door and fanlight. Chapel has four-bay nave with canted south-east altar end and canted entrance porch to south-west elevation. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone corbelled eaves course. Rendered walls with gabled buttresses to nave elevation. Double-light pointed arch stained-glass window openings having cut limestone block-and-start surrounds and carved limestone tracery forming trefoil-headed lights with trefoil light above. Convent set within its own grounds.

• Saint Patrick's Convent, school, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached H-plan multiple-bay two-storey school, built c.1860, having slightly higher projecting gabled ends to front elevation, that to west forming six-bay return, with recent three-bay single-storey flat-roofed extension to south-west elevation of return, single-bay full-height return to east end of rear elevation, and eight-bay single-storey flat-roofed corridor extension to rear. Pitched slate roofs, with dressed limestone chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods, on painted stone eaves brackets. Pebbledashed walls with painted stone quoins, plinth course and string course. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to centre of front elevation. Shallow recess to front of projections having double-light pointed windows to first floor with hood-mouldings and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows, and square-headed windows to ground floor with four-over-four pane windows. Similar window arrangement to rear of east projection, with oculus above first floor window. Mixed six-over-six pane, two-over-two pane and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to other elevations. Square-headed door opening to extension having double-leaf timber panelled door with flanking engaged render columns and canopy. Play shelter to rear with flat roof, rendered circular piers, roughcast rendered walls. Double-leaf cast-iron gate with rusticated limestone piers. Set within convent grounds.

• Bridge, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch limestone bridge, built c.1820, over Gort River. Snecked cut limestone walls, segmental arches with cut-stone voussoirs, carved U-cutwaters to north-east elevation and V-cutwater to south-west elevation. Dressed stone parapet walls topped with curved cut-stone copings.

• Water pump, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising flared fluted round-plan shaft with fluted domed cap, spout with bucket grip, and having wheel pumping handles to east and west sides. Limestone trough to front. Pump is set next to Gort Crane House and weigh bridge.

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Radon

About 1 in 5 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; parts are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_768 (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.

• Ballyhugh, Gort13 sales

Name

Ballyhugh · Baile Uí Aodha

Area

1,246,063 m² (124.61 ha, 307.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Gort, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gort electoral division: 3,186 people in 1,175 households; 55% of households own their home; 55% of homes were built since 2001; 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballylennan, Ballysheedy, Cloonnahaha, Drumminacloghaun, Gort, Lavally

Placenames

Ballyhugh 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.