Ballykeeran

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeeran, from 257 m² to 425,995 m² (42.6 ha, 105.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballykeeran 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.

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  for single storey side extensions and a two stroey rear extension to the existing house including façade and internal amendments to the existing House. Retention of Amendments to existing garage pl. ref. 98/699 are sought, proposed amendments including the connecting of the house to the garage and an upgrade to the existing percolation system are also sought. Gross floor space of proposed works: House extension: 112 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Garage: 17.6 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 14 sqm (construction), 7 sqm (shed)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21571

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 Ballykeeran.

Recorded monuments

• GA097-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In level grassland. Marked on the OS maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) and described by Wheeler (Topgr. Files, Dúchas) as a ‘small subrectangular enclosure, almost effaced except on W side where a bank and fosse run in straight line’. No visible surface trace survives but its outline is clearly visible on the OSi Orthophotographs. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 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 Ballykeeran.

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 Ballykeeran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballykeeran · Béal Átha Chaorthainn

Area

1,341,626 m² (134.16 ha, 331.52 acres)

Civil parish

Lickerrig, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Raford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Raford electoral division: 645 people in 217 households; 84% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abberanville, Cahernamuck East, Carrowkeel, Farta, Knocknadaula, Lackafinna South, Lackalea, Tooloobauntemple, Turoe

Placenames

Ballykeeran 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.