Ballysheedy

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysheedy, from 283 m² to 227,374 m² (22.74 ha, 56.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 45 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysheedy 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.

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  for the construction of a slatted shed with a creep area, silage slab & apron, manure pit and ancillary concrete. A natura impact statement has been submitted with this application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660131

• 9 Sept 2025N/a

  for the construction of a slatted shed with a creep area, silage slab & apron and ancillary concrete

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561282

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  for a 10 Year planning permission for the further development of a quarry, permitted under Pl. Ref. P09/415 to a final depth of 30.50 mAOD. The development will consist of Proposed continue extraction activities in the existing quarry void above the watertable, and to laterally extend the existing quarry void to the east and south; Extraction of a total volume of 325,000 tonnes on site over an area of c. 2.851 ha; Proposed tarmac surface and ramped surfaces, landscaping, and indigenous tree planting; Preservation and augmentation of the existing vegetation and planting; Provision of site drainage infrastructure; Existing septic tank to be decommissioned and all associated piping to be removed; Installation of a proposed polishing filter and treatment plant; Proposed maintenance track access gate and associated safety fence; Construction of an area dedicated to truck parking and car parking; Mineral processing activities, the loading of materials, the transportation of materials from the quarry and all related ancillary works related to the same; All associated site development and operational works; and All ancillary apparatus and site development works above and below ground, including soft and hard landscaping and drainage infrastructure; The recovery of inert waste arising from construction & demolition (C&D) activity, via the importation of inert material (under Waste Facility permit or as by End of Waste (in accordance with Article 28 of the European Communities (Waste Directive) Regulations 2011 (as amended) and the operation of an inert recycling facility to create recycled aggregates in accordance with the National End-of-Waste Criteria-Recycled Aggregates (EoW-N001/2023); Propose to restore the site, through the excavation and backfilling of areas; Restoration of quarry to its surrounding/former ground level using naturally occurring materials, principally inert soil and stone generated by construction and development activity and imported as waste under Waste Facility permit or as by-product, site restoration will be carried out on a phased basis. This application is accompanied by an NIS

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560256

• 2 Jun 2022Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 164.20sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260565

• 21 Dec 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 223.25 sqm, Garage: 44.7 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212464

• 27 Aug 2021Unconditional

  for the (1) demolition of a substandard dwelling house and (2) construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 250 sqm.(H) 36 sqm. (G))

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 211555

• 14 Jun 2018Conditional

  for construction of dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 199 sqm. (garage) 45 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18805

• 10 Aug 2017Refused

  for construction of dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works 222.18sqm, Garage 42.75sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171209

• 23 Feb 2017Conditional

  for the (1) demolition of a substandard dwelling house and (2) construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and all associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 250 sqm.(H) 36 sqm. (G))

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17242

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• GA122-020 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In grassland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. c. 20m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. The monument is obscured by heavy overgrowth. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA122-021 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 36m) defined by traces of a collapsed drystone wall surrounded by a later field wall. Almost centrally placed within the interior is an inaccessible souterrain (GA122-021001-), immediately to N of which is a circular cairn (diam. 2.5m) which may be fairly modern. A possible house site (GA122-021002-) is evident in the SSE sector and another less substantial structure (L 6m; Wth 3m) is evident in the NE sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA122-021001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA122-021001-), just 5m to the W of centre. This souterrain is indicated by a roof lintel but it is inaccessible. It appears to run NNW-SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA122-021002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the SSE sector and abutting the cashel (GA122----). A substantial rectangular stone-built structure (L 8m; Wth 6.5m; wall Wth 2m) may be the remain of a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

• GA128-021 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a low ridge in an area of grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured subcircular enclosure (c. 34m N-S; c. 26 E-W) and on the 1915 edition as a subcircular field. On inspection in August 1982 a curving field boundary in the W and N sectors with slight traces at S may have mirrored the outline of the enclosing element; otherwise no visible surface trace of the enclosure survived. Many of the field boundaries shown on the 1915 map had also been cleared away. Aerial imagery indicates that a large quarry now occupies this area and no visible surface trace of the enclosure is visible. A trackway leading into the site may overlie the W half of it. The cartographic evidence and siting in an area of outcropping rock suggest that this may be a cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_728 (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.

No address of the register names Ballysheedy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballysheedy · Baile Uí Shíoda

Area

1,486,368 m² (148.64 ha, 367.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Beagh electoral division: 789 people in 274 households; 92% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybaun, Ballyhugh, Drumminacloghaun, Newtown, Newtown (Regan), Sheeaun

Placenames

Ballysheedy 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.