Ballykilladea

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykilladea, from 269,699 m² (26.97 ha, 66.64 acres) to 281,627 m² (28.16 ha, 69.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykilladea 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballykilladea in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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: Caherglassaun Turlough SAC 000238
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caherglassaun Turlough 000238

Recorded monuments

• GA122-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level farmland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (24.5m WSW-ENE; 23.3m NW-SE) defined by a bank. Field-clearance rubble obscures the bank at N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA122-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives. There is another rath (GA122-010----). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA122-012 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In a small pocket of woodland surrounded by pasture. Named ‘Macduagh’s Holy Well’ on the 1838 and 1922 editions of the OS 6-inch maps, this natural spring well is known locally as ‘Colman’s Well’. It is rectangular in shape (1.56m N-S; 0.94m E-W; D 0.75m) and is lined with drystone walling. A single step (L 0.94m; Wth 0.33m) at its S end accesses the water. The well is surrounded by a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 2.7m ENE-WSW), with a straight E side (L c. 7m), which is defined by a wall (av. base Wth 1m; int. H 1m, ext. H 1.2m) that has partially collapsed at NNW. A possible entrance gap at SE was blocked up. Fahey (1893, 113) described the well as containing ‘an unfailing supply of purest water’, and noted that it was ‘overshadowed by a splendid ash’. He also recorded two further ‘similar enclosures’, which appear to have been penitential stations, that were visible within ‘a few yards on either side’ of the well. On inspection in September 1982, one of these (GA122-012001-) was noted to the E of the well. There was no visible surface trace of the second one (GA122-012002-). Likewise, no trace was noted of the 'Leaba Mac Duagh, or St. Colman's Bed', which Fahey recorded close to the entrance to the well. The latter consisted of 'a natural arbour, formed by a cluster of whitethorn and hazel.' The branches sheltered 'a slight excavation carpeted with moss and ivy', in which the 'Saint sometimes sought repose.' Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 January 2023 Fahey, J.A. 1893 (Reprint 1986) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Kilmacduagh. Galway. Kenny Gallery.

• GA122-012001 Penitential station
  Description

  Associated with a holy well (GA122-012----). Fahey (1893, 113) noted two ‘similar enclosures’ within ‘a few yards on either side’ of the holy well. Both were ‘without water’ and overgrown with hazel and underwood. On inspection in September 1982, one of these was noted to the E of the well. It consisted of a collapsed circular stone structure (diam. c. 4m). Intermittent outer wall-facing (H 0.9m) survived. Its function was unclear but it may have been a penitential station (GA122-012001-) associated with the well. No visible surface trace of the second one (GA122-012002-) was evident. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 January 2023 Fahey, J. 1893 Some Places of Interest near Gort Visited by the Society, August 11th, 1904. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 34, 211-19.

• GA122-012002 Penitential station
  Description

  Associated with a holy well (GA122-012----). Fahey (1893, 113) noted two ‘similar enclosures’ within ‘a few yards on either side’ of the holy well. Both were ‘without water’ and overgrown with hazel and underwood. On inspection in September 1982, one of these (GA122-012001-) was noted to the E of the well. It appeared to be the remains of a possible penitential station. No visible surface trace of the second one (GA122-012002-) was evident. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 4 January 2023 Fahey, J. 1893 Some Places of Interest near Gort Visited by the Society, August 11th, 1904. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 34, 211-19.

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballykilladea, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_686 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballykilladea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballykilladea · Baile Mhic Giolla Dhé

Area

551,772 m² (55.18 ha, 136.35 acres)

Civil parish

Killinny, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Cahermore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

620 people lived in 198 households in the Cahermore electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybuck North, Caherglassaun, Shigaunagh

Placenames

Ballykilladea 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.