Ballykeaghra

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeaghra, from 1,402 m² to 193,118 m² (19.31 ha, 47.72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballykeaghra 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.

• 7 Feb 2026Conditional

  for amendments to a solar energy development permitted under Galway County Council Planning Register Reference 20/1387 as follows: i) Omission of c. 1.92ha of solar panels; ii) Insertion of c. 1.30ha of solar panels, within the footprint of the permitted solar energy development; iii) Revised configuration of solar panels and alteration to spacing between the solar array rows to allow for 2.5m spacing; iv) Alteration to the design and location of the electrical inverter/transformer units and reduction in the number of electrical inverter/transformer units from 20 no. to 14 no.; v) 1 no. additional site entrance from the L6141 local road; vi) Revised locations of 1 no. site entrance from the L6141 local road and 1 no. site entrance from the L6143 local road; vii) Increase in the operational lifetime of the development from 30-years to 40-years from the date of commissioning; and, viii) All associated site development, drainage, access and reinstatement works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660183

• 20 Jun 2023Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter & associated site services & works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 286.51 sqm & 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23246

• 16 Jun 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 286.51 sqm & 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22779

• 10 Feb 2022N/a

  to construct dwellinghouse, garage, treatment plant and percolation area and associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: Dwelling; 271sqm, Garage; 60sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22159

• 21 Oct 2021Refused

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site services and works. Gross floor space of proposed works , House 286.51 sqm & garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211965

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  of an existing telecommunications support structure (previously granted under Plan Ref No. 071693) together with associated equipment and cabinets within a fenced compound.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 21179

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  For a 10 year planning permission for the construction of a solar PV farm and ancillary infrastructure at Cloontoa, Rinkippeen, Cloonascragh, Barnacurragh and Ballykeaghra, Tuam, Co Galway. The development will consist of approximately 62.6 hectares solar farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 20 no. single storey MV substations, 3 no. single storey customer substations, boundary security fencing, 1 no. communications pole, CCTV, associated electricity cabling and ducting, provision of access tracks, access gates and all associated ancillary development and landscaping works, and will have an operational lifespan of 30 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 673.2 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201387

• 26 Aug 2020N/a

  For a 10 year planning permission for the construction of a solar PV farm and ancillary infrastructure at Cloontoa, Rinkippeen, Cloonascragh, Barnacurragh and Ballykeaghra, Tuam, Co Galway. The development will consist of approximately 62.6 hectares solar farm comprising photovoltaic panels on ground mounted frames, 20 no. single storey MV substations, 3 no. single storey customer substations, boundary security fencing, 1 no. communications pole, CCTV, associated electricity cabling and ducting, provision of access tracks, access gates and all associated ancillary development and landscaping works, and will have an operational lifespan of 30 years. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the Planning Authority with the application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 673.2 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201191

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lough Corrib SAC 000297

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballykeaghra.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_751 (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 Ballykeaghra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballykeaghra · Béal Átha Ciachra

Area

1,138,653 m² (113.87 ha, 281.37 acres)

Civil parish

Cummer, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballinderry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballinderry electoral division: 597 people in 195 households; 91% of households own their home; 56% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinderry, Cloonascragh, Cloondarone, Cloonkeen North, Cloonkeen South

Placenames

Ballykeaghra 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.