Ballagh West

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballagh West, from 1,691 m² to 191,114 m² (19.11 ha, 47.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballagh West 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballagh West in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballagh West.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-019 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In gently undulating marshy pastureland. A poorly preserved castle; all that survives is a section of ENE wall with traces of a batter. Surrounding the monument is a subcircular enclosure (D c. 21.5m) defined by an earthen bank; a series of similar banks radiate from it. 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

• GA099-019001 Bawn
  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.

• GA099-195 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating grassland. Noted during aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 377:23, 29-30). Very poorly preserved roughly D-shaped enclosure (E-W c. 120m) defined from E to S by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m, H 0.2m) and external fosse, and from S to WNW by a scarp (H 0.4m); no trace of it survives elsewhere. The interior rises to a low rocky hillock defined along its NW side by a natural scarp. A number of modern field banks cut across the monument. 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 Ballagh West.

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 Ballagh West, about 1 in 10 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 Ballagh West.

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

Name

Ballagh West · An Bealach Thiar

Area

663,444 m² (66.34 ha, 163.94 acres)

Civil parish

Clontuskert, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attibrassil, Ballagh East, Corrabaun, Gorteenaveela, Lisheennavannoge (Blake), Liskelly, Tristaun

Placenames

Ballagh West 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.