Ballyglass

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 78 m² to 72,828 m² (7.28 ha, 18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballyglass 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.

• 10 May 2023Conditional

  of existing domestic garage & permission to extend to said garage & all associated works. Gross floor area of garage to be retained - 48msq. Gross floor area of extension - 14msq

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360482

• 13 Apr 2023Conditional

  to change the location of the off licence previously granted under planning reference number 21/2207

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360378

• 25 Nov 2021Conditional

  for the following: a) Retention of the change of use of part of the dwelling house as retail space, b) Retention of the change of use of part of the store as retail space, c) Permission to change of use of part of the dwelling house to retail space, d) Retention of the previous extension as retail space, e) Retention of the current elevations as constructed, f) Permission is being sought to construct a new extension to the side of the existing shop, and for changes to the front elevation. g) Permission is also being sought for a drinks off licence at this location as a part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 74.7 sqm (ext). Gross floor space of work to be retained: 5 sqm (prev ext)

  Retention · Galway County Council, 212207

• 15 Jul 2021Refused

  for the following: (a)Retention of the change of use of part of the dwelling house as retail space, b) Retention of the change of use of part of the store as retail space, c) Permission to change of use of part of the dwelling house to retail space, d) Retention of the previous extension as retail space, e) Retention of the current elevations as constructed, f) Permission is being sought to construct a new extension to the side of the existing shop, and for changes to the front elevation. g) Permission is also being sought for a drinks off license at this location as part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works is 35.4 sqm.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211296

• 29 Apr 2021N/a

  to retain a previous extension to the existing shop, to construct new extension to the existing shop, including one to the side, and for changes to the front elevation. Permission is also sought for a drinks off licence at this location as part of this application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 73.6 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 9.5 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 21705

• 11 Dec 2020Conditional

  for extension to front, side and rear of existing Dwelling House, new window design and new wastewater treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed area:174 msq.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201909

• 19 Feb 2020Refused

  to construct 1 no. single storey dwelling (193.5 sqm), detached garage (53.5 sqm), septic tank, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 247 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20208

• 15 Jun 2018Conditional

  for alterations and extension to existing dwelling, provision of new waste water treatment system and associated ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 63.5sqm, work to be retained 72.2sqm, any demolition 50.6sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18822

• 6 Mar 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwellinghouse with attached domestic garage and effluent treatment system. Gross floor space of proposed works 313.0sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18252

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 Ballyglass.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyglass.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1800, having single-storey extensions to rear. Pitched reed thatched roof with blocked ridge, two low rendered chimneystacks, and with rendered and painted copings to gables. Rendered and painted walls, having rendered plinth to front and rear. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed eight-panelled timber entrance door. House set below road level, with lime-rendered boundary wall, rendered gate piers and metal gates, boundary curving to vehicular gates at south. Planting to front, garden to side and rear.

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 Ballyglass, 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 Ballyglass.

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

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

794,868 m² (79.49 ha, 196.42 acres)

Civil parish

Athenry, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Deerpark, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,440 people lived in 449 households in the Deerpark electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrone, Barnaboy, Derrymaclaughna, Lackagh More, Monard, Turloughmore Common

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.