Ballaghnagrosheen

87 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghnagrosheen, from 209 m² to 147,187 m² (14.72 ha, 36.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballaghnagrosheen 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.

• 20 May 2025Conditional

  to close existing entrance and open a new entrance, construct private garage/store and install waste water treatment system to include all associated site works. Gross floor space pf proposed works: 53.94 sqm(G)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 25118

• 26 Mar 2024Conditional

  to construct: 1. Slatted shed with cattle handling facilities. 2. Sheep shed with handling facilities. 3. Manure pit to include effluent tank, concrete aprons and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 251.20 sqm (slatted shed), 287.92 sqm (sheep shed), 111.36 sqm (cattle handling), 130.80 sqm (sheep handling), 28.55 sqm (manure pit) & 446.62 sqm (aprons)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2488

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  will consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house (gross floor area of new works 53sqm) and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 53sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201324

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 Ballaghnagrosheen.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghnagrosheen.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballaghnagrosheen, 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 Ballaghnagrosheen.

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

Name

Ballaghnagrosheen · Bealach na gCroisíní

Area

2,061,109 m² (206.11 ha, 509.31 acres)

Civil parish

Killoscobe, and its townlands

Barony

Tiaquin

Electoral division

Derryglassaun, the unit of the census

Census 2022

976 people lived in 332 households in the Derryglassaun electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinrooaun, Carrownacregg East, Carrownacregg West, Cloonmweelaun, Derryglassaun, Killoscobe, Menlough Eighter

Placenames

Ballaghnagrosheen 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.