Ballyroe

65 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe, from 17 m² to 69,176 m² (6.92 ha, 17.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballyroe 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.

• 22 Jul 2026Refused

  for the construction of a 3 no. unit extension to a completed housing estate, comprising of the following mix: 3 no. two-bedroom terraced bungalow units and all associated car parking, landscaping, connection to existing road network, foul and storm sewers, including all other associated civil & site works and services to facilitate this development

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661242

• 6 Dec 2024Conditional

  to construct office space extension to existing Parish Hall and associated siteworks and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 58 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2461669

• 18 Nov 2024Conditional

  for a development consisting of the construction of a 15no. dwelling unit extension to completed housing estate, comprising of the following mix: 1 No. detached six-bedroom single storey assisted living unit, 4 No. semi-detached three-bedroom two storey dwelling units, 2 No. semi-detached four bedroom three storey dwelling units, 2 No. semi-detached two-bedroom two storey dwelling units and 6 No. Terraced two-bedroom two storey dwelling units and all associated car parking, landscaping, connection to existing road network, foul and storm sewers, including all other associated civil & site works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,777.54 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461556

• 10 May 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 229.00sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260455

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  for extension and alterations to existing dwelling house, construct domestic garage and fuel store along with associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 98.10 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201827

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 268.8sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17545

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyroe.

Recorded monuments

• GA006-007 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a set of hachures, curving from W through N to NE, in a manner suggesting a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives; a bungalow occupies the site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA006-008 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured area marked on the 1930 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a disused quarry defined by a large irregular pit. Probably of 19th/20th century date. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 August 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyroe, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyroe.

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.

• Ballyroe, Williamstown6 sales

Name

Ballyroe · An Baile Nua

Area

666,776 m² (66.68 ha, 164.76 acres)

Civil parish

Templetogher, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Kilcroan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

596 people lived in 224 households in the Kilcroan electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 25% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrownderry, Corralough, Pollaneyster, Springfield

Placenames

Ballyroe 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.