Ballymariscal
Townland in the civil parish of Ardrahan, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile an Mharascalaigh
- Area
- 30.3 ha
- 75 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 3,183 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymariscal, from 13 m² to 62,981 m² (6.3 ha, 15.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Ballymariscal 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
19 Oct 2023Conditional
of a serviced dwelling with an effluent treatment system previously granted under pl. ref. no. 03/6622
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361260
6 Apr 2023Conditional
for development consisting of: a) single storey dwelling house measuring 181 sqm, b) single storey domestic garage measuring 34 sqm, c) new boundary wall and two new vehicular entrances to the public road, the first new vehicular entrance to serve the proposed dwelling house and the second new vehicular entrance to serve the adjacent farmland, d) wastewater treatment and all associated site services and works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 23140
3 Mar 2023Conditional
for the construction of a new storey and a half dwellinghouse & garage with onsite treatment unit & percolation area along with all associated site works, following on from a previously granted planning permission ref: 21/1824. Gross floor space of proposed works 263.00sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360199
4 Oct 2021Conditional
for the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling house and garage with on site treatment unit and percolation area along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works:254.3 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211824
1 Jul 2021N/a
for the construction of a new storey and a half dwelling house and garage with septic tank and percolation area along with all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 252.4sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211183
28 Jun 2019Conditional
for change of house plans (previously approved Ref No. 18/1518). Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 212 sqm, Garage - 56 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19998
25 Oct 2018Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: (house) 203 sqm, (garage) 56 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181518
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 Ballymariscal.
Recorded monuments
- GA114-017 Designed landscape feature
Description
In level pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed circular mixed tree plantation. On the 1921 edition it is shown as a roughly circular (diam. c. 46m) enclosure defined by a wall. Four trees are visible in the interior, one in each quadrant. No visible surface trace survives. A similar feature is shown on the maps c. 165m to the SW (see GA114-019----). Possible a landscape feature associated with Tullira Castle (GA114-166002-). (McCaffrey 1952, 280, no. 51) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019
- GA114-019 Designed landscape feature
Description
In level pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an unenclosed circular mixed tree plantation. On the 1921 edition it is shown as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a wall. A number of trees are visible in the interior. No visible surface trace survived when visited by McCaffrey (1952, 280, no. 50 ), who suggested that it may have been 'an ornamental ring of trees'. A similar feature is shown on the maps c. 165m to the NE (see GA114-017----). Possibly a landscape feature associated with Tullira Castle (GA114-166002-). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 17 June 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymariscal.
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_800 (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 Ballymariscal with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymariscal · Baile an Mharascalaigh
- Area
- 303,144 m² (30.31 ha, 74.91 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardrahan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Skehanagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Skehanagh electoral division: 536 people in 185 households; 86% of households own their home; 47% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caheratrim, Caherkelly, Cregaclare Demesne, Rathanlon, Tullira
- Placenames
- Ballymariscal 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.