Ballyglass

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 26 m² to 214,156 m² (21.42 ha, 52.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  to construct a four bay slatted shed with underground tanks, with a calf creep area, internal cattle crush, and a dungstead. Gross floor space of proposed works: 300.00 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2560761

• 13 Dec 2021Conditional

  to construct a walled silage slab. Gross floor space of proposed works: 296.88 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 212353

• 6 Aug 2021Refused

  construct a dwelling house. garage, treatment system, percolation area and rainwater harvesting system. T his planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. The works to include all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works, house 245 sqm and garage59 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211442

• 10 Jun 2021Conditional

  to construct a two storey extension to dwelling house. Permission is also sought to replace the existing conventional septic tack an percolation area with a new treatment plant and a raised percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 112m2

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211039

• 2 Jul 2020Refused

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 260 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20860

• 19 Mar 2020Conditional

  for construction of an extension to an existing dwelling house (area 44sqm) Gross floor space of proposed works 66sqm, Gross floor space of work to be retained 168sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20359

• 18 Jul 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment system and percolation area. Gross floor space of proposed works 224 sqm. Garage 60sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181017

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: Lough Corrib SAC 000297
• Natural Heritage Area: Lough Tee Bog NHA 000307

Recorded monuments

• GA072-002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a prominent rise, on roadside along which E boundary of td. runs. This CBG is indicated on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as an unenclosed subrectangular area (N-S c. 45m, E-W c. 25m). The area is overgrown and no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA072-003 Church
  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 Ballyglass.

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 20 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 moderately low, 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

2,921,233 m² (292.12 ha, 721.85 acres)

Civil parish

Clonkeen, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Cappalusk, the unit of the census

Census 2022

416 people lived in 144 households in the Cappalusk electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Clogh, Clonkeenkerrill, Cloonbornia, Colmanstown, Gorteen, Gortnacross, Knockaboy, Shanballymore, Sheeaun, Temple

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.