Ballybackagh

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybackagh, from 182 m² to 60,143 m² (6.01 ha, 14.86 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballybackagh 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 Jul 2026Conditional

  for the change of plans for an extension to an existing dwelling including elevation alterations to those previously approved under pl. ref. no. 25/60934 & for all ancillary services & site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661168

• 11 Jul 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a rear and side extension to an existing dwelling, including elevation alterations and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 97.00 sqm(extension)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560934

• 23 Apr 2021Unconditional

  for demolition and reconstruction of fire damaged licensed premises and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 355.91sqm

  Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 21665

• 31 Jan 2019Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling, domestic garage, septic tank, treatment system, percolation area and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 208 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19132

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 Ballybackagh.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybackagh.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballybackagh, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_871 (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 Ballybackagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballybackagh · An Baile Bacach

Area

317,576 m² (31.76 ha, 78.47 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Castleboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

571 people lived in 204 households in the Castleboy electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullaunagh, Castleboy, Castledaly, Cregganore, Gortard, Lisheeneynaun, Pollacurra

Placenames

Ballybackagh 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.