Ballynageeha
Townland in the civil parish of Oranmore, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway; in Irish Baile na Gaoithe
- Area
- 87.1 ha
- 215 acres
- Land parcels
- 18
- registered freehold, median 2,221 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynageeha, from 1,432 m² to 264,041 m² (26.4 ha, 65.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 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 Ballynageeha 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
21 Dec 2022Conditional
to erect dwelling house, domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. Gross floor area of proposed works: 186.60 sqm (dwelling) 50sqm (domestic garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261285
22 Apr 2021Conditional
for change of house plans to that previously approved under Pl Ref 11/985 and 16/1456. Gross floor space of proposed works: 199.0 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21651
1 Mar 2019Conditional
for an extension to the side and rear of existing dwelling and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 59 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19286
5 Oct 2018Conditional
for an extension to the side of existing dwelling and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 56 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 13 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181408
31 May 2017Conditional
to erect dwelling house with attached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, polishing filter and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 248 sqm. & 30.40 sqm.)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17770
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 Ballynageeha.
Recorded monuments
- GA095-003 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a N-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 50m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible at NE and S. A gap (Wth c. 3m) at NE may be original. (Athy 1914, 135-6; McCaffrey 1952, 126, no. 48) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017
- GA095-162 Hut site
Description
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynageeha.
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_677 (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 Ballynageeha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynageeha · Baile na Gaoithe
- Area
- 870,704 m² (87.07 ha, 215.16 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oranmore, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Oranmore, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Oranmore electoral division: 4,721 people in 1,706 households; 66% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bushfield, Moneymore East, Oran Beg, Rinn
- Placenames
- Ballynageeha 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.