Ballygunneen

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygunneen, from 145 m² to 121,446 m² (12.14 ha, 30.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballygunneen 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.

• 21 Jun 2024N/a

  for the (A) construction of secure vehicle storage shed (B) and all associated site development work. Gross floor space of proposed works: 223 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2460763

• 16 Nov 2023Refused

  for the construction of a new dwelling house (area 310sq.m), domestic garage (area 38sq.m), new sewage treatment system and associated site development works. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted with this application

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361368

• 26 Apr 2023Refused

  for (A) construction of a restoration / vehicle storage shed behind existing car servicing & repairs garage (B) and all associated site development works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2360422

• 22 Mar 2023Conditional

  of 1. extensions to existing dwelling house, 2. workshop and 3. amenity building. Permission also to upgrade existing wastewater treatment system. (SPLIT DECISION - GRANT EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE & UPGRADE TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, REFUSE THE WORKSHOP & AMENITY BUILDING)

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360279

• 19 Jul 2021N/a

  for dwelling house, domestic garage with fuel store, greenhouse, temporary timber garden shed on revised site boundaries and reduction in site area from previously granted under planning ref. 20-1099.

  Retention · Galway County Council, 211308

• 6 Aug 2020Conditional

  for Dwelling house with extension on revised site boundaries, Domestic garage with fuel store, Greenhouse, Temporary timber garden shed and all associated site development works. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 85 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201099

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA114-007 Enclosure
  Description

  On the NW-facing slope of a hill in scrubland. Depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly hachured subrectangular enclosure within a large mixed plantation of fir trees and bushes. The interior was clear of growth. On the 1921 edition of the map it shown as an oval enclosure (c. 55m E-W; c. 40m N-S) and, again, the interior was clear of growth. When initially inspected in October 1982 the monument was completely overgrown and almost inaccessible. On re-inspection in July 1992 it could not be located due to overgrowth. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA114-008 Enclosure
  Description

  In pastureland. Marked only on the 1921 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small rectangular enclosure (c. 22m NW-SE; c. 18m NE-SW). No visible surface trace survives. Possible an animal pen. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA114-009 Enclosure
  Description

  On the W-facing slope of a hill, beside a stream. Marked on the OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygunneen, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_924 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballygunneen · Baile Uí Dhuinnín

Area

1,848,570 m² (184.86 ha, 456.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killinan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymullen, Castleboy, Cloghaun, Gortnagleav, Kilnagappagh, Lackabaun, Lahardaun, Roxborough

Placenames

Ballygunneen 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.