Ballynacurragh

78 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacurragh, from 159 m² to 203,189 m² (20.32 ha, 50.21 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 53 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 Ballynacurragh 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.

• 9 May 2024Conditional

  for a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. A Natura Impact Statement has been prepared as part of this planning application. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232.50 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460523

• 13 Jul 2022Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, domestic shed, proprietary effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 233 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22871

• 17 Jul 2020Conditional

  to demolish existing old farm buildings and construct a five bay Slatted/Loose shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 370 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 211 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20980

• 10 Nov 2017Conditional

  to construct a silage slab. (Gross floor space of proposed works 578sq)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171621

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works House 214.5sqm, Garage 35sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 171145

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA105-023 Quarry
  Description

  This is a quarry pit associated with a lime kiln. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 10 July 2015

• GA115-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved and densely overgrown oval rath (c. 25m NE-SW; c. 20m NW-SE) defined by an earthen bank and external fosse. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 February 2019

• GA115-005 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2015

• GA115-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. A poorly preserved oval rath (c. 25m E-W) defined by a degraded earthen bank with traces of an external fosse at W. A children's burial ground (GA115-006001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

• GA115-006001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  According to local information there was a children's burial ground within the rath (GA115-006----). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

Architectural heritage

• Soldier's Bridge, bridge, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone road bridge over river, built c.1860. Cut-stone walls with rubble parapets terminating in piers to abutments. High segmental arch having cut-stone voussoirs. Rubble walls to raised causeway of approaching road.

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 Ballynacurragh, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynacurragh · Baile an Churraigh

Area

2,162,580 m² (216.26 ha, 534.39 acres)

Civil parish

Kilchreest, and its townlands

Barony

Loughrea

Electoral division

Kilchreest, the unit of the census

Census 2022

307 people lived in 111 households in the Kilchreest electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarry, Ballycuddy, Ballynagran, Boggaun, Gorteenanillaun, Gortnamannagh East, Gortnamannagh West, Kilchreest, Kilnagappagh, Sonnagh Old

Placenames

Ballynacurragh 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.