Bookalagh

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bookalagh, from 423 m² to 785,553 m² (78.56 ha, 194.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Bookalagh 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.

• 25 Jul 2019Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic garage and fuel store, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and associated siteworks. Gross floor space of proposed works: 257.00 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191157

• 16 Jun 2017Conditional

  to construct dwellinghouse, domestic garage and fuel store, waste water treatment system and percolation area (gross floor space 352.60sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 17893

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: Corliskea/Trien/Cloonfelliv Bog SAC 002110
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Corliskea/Trien/Cloonfelliv Bog 002110

Recorded monuments

• GA002-006 Kiln - corn-drying
  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.

• GA002-007 Kiln - corn-drying
  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 Bookalagh.

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 Bookalagh, about 1 in 10 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Bookalagh · Buaclach

Area

2,756,819 m² (275.68 ha, 681.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcroan, and its townlands

Barony

Ballymoe

Electoral division

Ballymoe, the unit of the census

Census 2022

398 people lived in 151 households in the Ballymoe electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 26% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Annagh (Co. Roscommon), Cloonee, Cloonfad (Co. Roscommon), Cloonfelliv (Co. Roscommon), Corliskea, Farm, Gilkagh East, Gilkagh West, Marnellsgrove

Placenames

Bookalagh 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.