# Ballykeeran, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lickerrig, barony of Loughrea, Co. Galway; in Irish Béal Átha Chaorthainn. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,341,626 m² (134.16 ha, 331.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 11,241 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Lickerrig, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/lickerrig.md - Barony: Loughrea - Electoral division: Raford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/20251 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60355 - Centre: latitude 53.251056, longitude -8.587546 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeeran, from 257 m² to 425,995 m² (42.6 ha, 105.27 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 2014983: 425,995 m² (42.6 ha, 105.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014983.md - Parcel 1937367: 118,358 m² (11.84 ha, 29.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937367.md - Parcel 2014988: 110,786 m² (11.08 ha, 27.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014988.md - Parcel 2014991: 100,742 m² (10.07 ha, 24.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014991.md - Parcel 1937368: 98,460 m² (9.85 ha, 24.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937368.md - Parcel 2014987: 76,058 m² (7.61 ha, 18.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014987.md - Parcel 2014990: 62,692 m² (6.27 ha, 15.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014990.md - Parcel 2014993: 61,424 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014993.md - Parcel 4794806: 39,126 m² (3.91 ha, 9.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4794806.md - Parcel 1937369: 36,286 m² (3.63 ha, 8.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937369.md - Parcel 4872153: 35,753 m² (3.58 ha, 8.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872153.md - Parcel 4981715: 34,181 m² (3.42 ha, 8.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981715.md - Parcel 4860438: 25,145 m² (2.51 ha, 6.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860438.md - Parcel 2014992: 24,722 m² (2.47 ha, 6.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014992.md - Parcel 4625435: 19,800 m² (1.98 ha, 4.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4625435.md - Parcel 4995721: 15,761 m² (1.58 ha, 3.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4995721.md - Parcel 4872156: 11,241 m² (1.12 ha, 2.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4872156.md - Parcel 2014984: 8,324 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014984.md - Parcel 2112293: 6,681 m² (0.67 ha, 1.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2112293.md - Parcel 1937364: 4,168 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937364.md - Parcel 2014989: 3,626 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014989.md - Parcel 4671974: 3,515 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4671974.md - Parcel 2014985: 2,867 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014985.md - Parcel 4860444: 1,552 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860444.md - Parcel 1937365: 1,532 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937365.md - Parcel 2014986: 1,478 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2014986.md - Parcel 1937366: 1,442 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1937366.md - Parcel 4860433: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860433.md - Parcel 4981718: 1,376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981718.md - Parcel 5417243: 1,158 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5417243.md - Parcel 4981720: 398 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4981720.md - Parcel 4860448: 344 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4860448.md - Parcel 5053159: 257 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5053159.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 12 Apr 2021, Galway County Council 21571: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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). File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/21571/0 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 Ballykeeran. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - GA097-008: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CGA097-008----. 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 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 Ballykeeran. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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, 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/ballykeeran.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballykeeran.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballykeeran.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballykeeran 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) - Abberanville: https://everytownland.com/galway/abberanville.md - Cahernamuck East: https://everytownland.com/galway/cahernamuck-east.md - Carrowkeel: https://everytownland.com/galway/carrowkeel-60939.md - Farta: https://everytownland.com/galway/farta.md - Knocknadaula: https://everytownland.com/galway/knocknadaula.md - Lackafinna South: https://everytownland.com/galway/lackafinna-south.md - Lackalea: https://everytownland.com/galway/lackalea.md - Tooloobauntemple: https://everytownland.com/galway/tooloobauntemple.md - Turoe: https://everytownland.com/galway/turoe.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/ballykeeran - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballykeeran