Bredagh

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bredagh, from 393 m² to 198,628 m² (19.86 ha, 49.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Bredagh 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.

• 4 Nov 2020Conditional

  to construct serviced dwelling house and domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: house 282 sqm, garage 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201635

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 Bredagh.

Recorded monuments

• GA056-027 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight SW-facing slope. Roughly circular enclosure (D 54m) defined by a low scarp which is overlain by a field wall from E through S to SW. 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

• GA056-028 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (D 30m) defined by a collapsed dry stone wall. The inner wall-face does notsurvive from NNW to NNE, and the outer face is obscured by field-clearance rubble. A gap at E could be original. 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

• GA056-029 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure cut by field boundaries from NNW to N and from N to E. The monument has been levelled and is now indicated by a low rise (NE-SW 50m, NW-SW 36m) within which are a series of mounds and hollows. 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

Architectural heritage

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

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 Bredagh, 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 Bredagh.

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

Name

Bredagh · An Bhréadach

Area

1,399,864 m² (139.99 ha, 345.91 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcoona, and its townlands

Barony

Clare

Electoral division

Ballinduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

725 people lived in 241 households in the Ballinduff electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasey, Bunatober, Cahermorris, Cluidrevagh, Kilcoona, Knockereen, Manuslynn, Parkanallacan

Placenames

Bredagh 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.