Ballyloughaun
Townland in the civil parish of Kiltartan, barony of Kiltartan, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile an Locháin
- Area
- 42.9 ha
- 106 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 12,400 m² (1.24 ha, 3.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughaun, from 1,510 m² to 56,870 m² (5.69 ha, 14.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyloughaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Feb 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area along with all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 194.76 sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 2560140
4 Jul 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 279.1 sqm, Garage - 31.85 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191037
11 Apr 2019Refused
for construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 279.1 sqm (House), 31.85 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19538
23 Jan 2019Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 279.1 sqm (House), 31.85 sqm (Garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 1990
15 Mar 2018N/a
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 279.1 sqm (house), 31.85 sqm (garage)
Permission · Galway County Council, 18316
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyloughaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyloughaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyloughaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- 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.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_802 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyloughaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyloughaun · Baile an Locháin
- Area
- 428,644 m² (42.86 ha, 105.92 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kiltartan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kiltartan
- Electoral division
- Kiltartan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kiltartan electoral division: 859 people in 290 households; 89% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballyloughaun 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.