Ballyglass

86 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 37 m² to 126,631 m² (12.66 ha, 31.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Ballyglass 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.

• 7 Mar 2026Refused

  for the provision of an agricultural entrance to lands, including associated works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660352

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  for change of house type from that granted under planning ref: 22/60365. Gross floor space of proposed works: 232 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2361470

• 25 Oct 2022Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 200.50sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261073

• 18 Apr 2022Conditional

  construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 270.90 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260365

• 4 Dec 2019Conditional

  and complete dwellinghouse, domestic garage and all associated services on revised site boundaries (previously granted under planning ref. no. 18/597). Gross floor space of work to be retained: House - 238.0 sqm, Garage - 40.5 sqm

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191873

• 10 May 2018Conditional

  for a) construction of a new dwelling, b) construction of a domestic garage/store, c) wastewater treatment system with soil polishing filter, d) new site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works (dwelling) 238 sqm. (garage) 42.50 sqm.)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18597

• 27 Feb 2017Conditional

  to construct a 2 bay double shed with slatted tank area, loose/straw area, dung stand and all associated site works. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 142 sqm.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17265

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 Ballyglass.

Recorded monuments

• GA126-001 Quarry
  Description

  On a hummock in undulating pastureland. A hachured feature marked on the 1947-8 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1984 to be a pit: possibly a disused quarry or silage pit. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 14 August 2014

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey vernacular house, built c.1850 with windbreak to front (south) elevation, and with recent extension to rear. Hipped thatched roof with low cement rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth render to windbreak. Square-headed window openings with painted stone sills and replacement timber windows. Blocked-up square-headed opening in rear wall. Square-headed replacement timber battened door to porch. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof, rubble limestone walls and square-headed openings, with lean-to turf shed to north gable, latter having corrugated-iron roof. Cast-iron garden gate and double-leaf wrought-iron vehicular gates, set to rendered piers and rendered road boundary wall.

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 Ballyglass, 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 Ballyglass.

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

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

858,868 m² (85.89 ha, 212.23 acres)

Civil parish

Tynagh, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballyglass, the unit of the census

Census 2022

179 people lived in 67 households in the Ballyglass electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cappagh, Cloonmoylan, Crannagh, Knockbrack, Loughaunroe West

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.