Ballyskeagh

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyskeagh, from 564 m² to 152,473 m² (15.25 ha, 37.68 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballyskeagh 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.

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  to construct ground floor bathroom to side of existing dwelling for use by elderly occupant, and associated site developments works and services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25219

• 16 Mar 2021Conditional

  for the construction of a Slatted Cubicle and Loose Shed and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 480.624 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 1417.3 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21373

• 16 Feb 2021N/a

  for the construction of a Slatted Cubicle & Loose Shed and all associated ancillary concrete works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 480.624 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 1417.3 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21181

• 25 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 206.30sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171102

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 Ballyskeagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyskeagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyskeagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballyskeagh · An Baile Sceicheach

Area

528,697 m² (52.87 ha, 130.64 acres)

Civil parish

Monivea, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Monivea, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Monivea electoral division: 794 people in 273 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caherlissakill, Corralea, Crooroe Park, Glennagloghaun North, Peak, Pollboy or Knockatober

Placenames

Ballyskeagh 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.