Ballycahill

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahill, from 170 m² to 92,655 m² (9.27 ha, 22.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballycahill 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.

• 23 Aug 2021Conditional

  for development of this site. The development will consist of construction of dwelling house & effluent treatment system together with associated site works. Previous planning permission reference number: 07/4156 & 19/1276. Gross floor space of proposed works: 212.7 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211526

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  for development comprising of the following works: a] New Part 2 storey, part single storey dwelling b] proposed single storey garage c] proposed new treatment system, percolation area d] Proposed new entrance from main road e] And all associated site works. Gross floor area of proposed works: 279 sqm (house) & 40.95 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20829

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 Ballycahill.

Recorded monuments

• GA117-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in gently rolling grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (22.8m E-W; 21.9m N-S) defined by a bank at NW and elsewhere by a scarp. The fosse only survives from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

Architectural heritage

• Ballycahill Mill, mill (water), 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Multiple-bay two-storey with attic storey watermill, built c.1800, southern half being slightly higher, with three-bay two-storey miller's house to north end, having shallow flat-roof projection to rear, with further two-storey block to west, and having single-storey lean-to shed at right angles to front of southern part of mill. Pitched slate roof to southern part of mill, corrugated-iron roofs elsewhere. Roughcast rendered walls, with paired red brick chimneystacks located centrally to miller's house. Square-headed openings with stone sills, having timber casement and fixed pane windows to mill, and replacement timber windows to miller's house. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors and recent sliding metal doors. Mill pond, mill dam and sluices to north.

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 Ballycahill, 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, low (inferred).

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycahill.

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

Name

Ballycahill · Bealach Sháithil

Area

624,178 m² (62.42 ha, 154.24 acres)

Civil parish

Killimorbologue, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Killimor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

715 people lived in 256 households in the Killimor electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Caher, Cloonconabeg, Garryad and Garryduff, Garrynasillagh, Killimor and Boleybeg, Pollnahincha, Treananearla

Placenames

Ballycahill 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.