# Ballymurry, Co. Galway: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kiltullagh, barony of Athenry, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile Uí Mhuirígh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 649,617 m² (64.96 ha, 160.52 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,686 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kiltullagh, https://everytownland.com/galway/parish/kiltullagh.md - Barony: Athenry - Electoral division: Bullaun, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 340 people lived in 112 households in the Bullaun electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 51% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Galway, https://everytownland.com/galway.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/19690 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 60393 - Centre: latitude 53.253076, longitude -8.540089 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurry, from 255 m² to 77,267 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1927482: 77,267 m² (7.73 ha, 19.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927482.md - Parcel 1970939: 69,848 m² (6.98 ha, 17.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970939.md - Parcel 4457702: 61,217 m² (6.12 ha, 15.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457702.md - Parcel 5526828: 61,203 m² (6.12 ha, 15.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5526828.md - Parcel 1927483: 57,102 m² (5.71 ha, 14.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927483.md - Parcel 1927478: 56,291 m² (5.63 ha, 13.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927478.md - Parcel 1927480: 55,822 m² (5.58 ha, 13.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927480.md - Parcel 1927481: 49,520 m² (4.95 ha, 12.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927481.md - Parcel 1970833: 45,514 m² (4.55 ha, 11.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970833.md - Parcel 4457692: 30,173 m² (3.02 ha, 7.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457692.md - Parcel 1927484: 19,553 m² (1.96 ha, 4.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927484.md - Parcel 1970940: 16,391 m² (1.64 ha, 4.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970940.md - Parcel 1970938: 12,318 m² (1.23 ha, 3.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970938.md - Parcel 1970941: 4,686 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970941.md - Parcel 4457700: 4,544 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457700.md - Parcel 1970937: 3,817 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1970937.md - Parcel 4457693: 3,522 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457693.md - Parcel 4632155: 3,422 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4632155.md - Parcel 1927479: 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1927479.md - Parcel 4457698: 2,056 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457698.md - Parcel 4457695: 2,031 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457695.md - Parcel 4457699: 1,842 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457699.md - Parcel 4457694: 1,295 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457694.md - Parcel 4457696: 1,230 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457696.md - Parcel 4457697: 369 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457697.md - Parcel 2373481: 361 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2373481.md - Parcel 4457701: 255 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4457701.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurry 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. - 26 May 2026, Galway County Council 2660830: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment unit, percolation area and all associated site services. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/GalwayCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660830/0 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 Ballymurry. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymurry. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymurry. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballymurry, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymurry. - 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/ballymurry.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymurry.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/galway/ballymurry.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymurry 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) - Bellayarha North: https://everytownland.com/galway/bellayarha-north.md - Ben More: https://everytownland.com/galway/ben-more.md - Brackloonbeg: https://everytownland.com/galway/brackloonbeg.md - Gortcam: https://everytownland.com/galway/gortcam.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/ballymurry - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/galway/ballymurry