Ballynabucky
Ballynabucky is a townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of Dunkellin, Co. Galway. Its name in Irish is Baile na bPocaí.
Parcel 1974282
- Area
- 36,138 m² (3.61 ha, 8.93 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballynabucky
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_760 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 134 ha
- 331 acres
- Land parcels
- 75
- registered freehold, median 2,937 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 28
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynabucky, from 13 m² to 220,274 m² (22.03 ha, 54.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynabucky 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Aug 2026Conditional
for modifications (change of house plan) to Planning Permission Reference Number 23/60307 granted for a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit/percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661431
6 Aug 2026Conditional
for dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661359
1 Jul 2026Conditional
for a single storey extension to rear and side of existing dwelling house, enlargement of front porch and elevational changes to sides of existing dwelling house, additional front entrance to be used as the main entrance, private garage, private on-site domestic wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661109
25 May 2026Conditional
of dwelling on revised site boundaries from Pl Ref 69498
Retention · Galway County Council, 2660822
13 Nov 2025Unconditional
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment / percolation and all associated services
Extension of duration · Galway County Council, 25311
6 Feb 2025Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 201.20 sqm(house), 60.00 sqm(garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560120
7 Aug 2024Conditional
for dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment/percolation, vehicular access road link to public road and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 219.81 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461001
23 May 2024Conditional
for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House 232 sqm & Garage 60 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 24140
29 Mar 2024Conditional
for modifications (change of house plan) to planning permission reference number 21/1182 granted for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit/percolation area and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460353
27 Feb 2024N/a
for modifications (change of house plan) to planning permission reference number 21/1182 granted for a dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit/percolation area and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 222 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460204
13 Feb 2024Conditional
for the construction of dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 281.8 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460139
17 May 2023Refused
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage and effluent treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 245.40 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360518
29 Mar 2023Conditional
for new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360307
21 Oct 2021Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment/ percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 246.2 sqm (house) & 60 sqm (garage)
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211946
21 Oct 2021Refused
for the construction of a new dwelling along with garage, treatment septic tank system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 247 sqm, Garage: 40 sqm.
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211954
13 Oct 2021Conditional
(a) modified house plan from that granted under planning reference number 06/153 (b) garage (c) revised vehicular entrance location and (d) waste water treatment as constructed and all associated services.
Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211892
6 Oct 2021Conditional
for dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment/ percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 219.8 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211840
24 Sept 2021Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment /percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 265 sqm, Garage 60sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211773
1 Jul 2021Conditional
for dwelling house, on site wastewater treatment/percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 234sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211182
4 Jun 2021Refused
to demolish an existing domestic type garage and construct a new domestic type garage at the rear of an existing dwelling house and to construct an agricultural type shed in the lands to the rear of an existing dwelling house. Gross floor space of proposed works: 80sqm +94sqm=174sqm
Permission · Galway County Council, 21975
8 Apr 2021N/a
the retention of (1) the addition of a ground floor area to side sunroom circa 18sqm, ground & first floor front of existing house circa 16 sqm with elevational alterations to front & rear of existing property including apex style roof to front extension. (2) Retention of detached garage with pitched roof circa 60sqm & all associated site works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 95sqm.
Retention · Galway County Council, 21542
1 Mar 2021Refused
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site treatment system along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 199 sqm, G: 45 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 21261
23 Dec 2020Conditional
to construct a 2 storey extension to the side of dwelling house and also to retain and complete elevation alterations. Gross floor space of proposed works: 39.37 sqm Extension
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 202054
18 Dec 2020N/a
for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site treatment system along with all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: H: 199 sqm, G: 45 sqm
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 201977
24 Jun 2020Conditional
for dwelling house, garage, on site wastewater treatment / percolation and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed development: 247.2 msq
Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20794
The 25 most recent of 28 applications.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynabucky.
Recorded monuments
- GA103-018 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In level pastureland. A poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 37m) defined by a grass-covered wall from WNW through N to SSE. A curving field wall at W may indicate the former line of the wall. Another field wall cuts the monument at SSE and SSW. A collapsed curving bank within the interior may be an internal division. (McCaffrey 1952, 179, no. 96) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017
- GA103-019 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a SE-facing slope in level pastureland. Roughly circular rath (diam. 28.7m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone. A gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE may be modern. (McCaffrey 1952, 180, no. 97) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017
- GA103-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (30m E-W), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse; the latter only survives from NW to N. Traces of stone-facing are evident along the inner face of the bank at NE. Field walls overlie the enclosing element from through S to NW. There is a souterrain (GA103-020001-) in the N sector of the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 179, no. 85) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017
- GA103-020001 Souterrain
Description
Within the N sector of a rath (GA103-020----). This souterrain consists of a drystone-built subrectangular chamber (L 5.8m; Wth 1.3m; H 0.85-1.45m) running NNE-SSW. Access is gained at the SSW end and the chamber narrows towards the NNE end where it is 0.9m wide. (McCaffrey 1952, 179, no. 96) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 September 2019
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynabucky.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynabucky, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_721 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynabucky with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynabucky · Baile na bPocaí
- Area
- 1,340,245 m² (134.02 ha, 331.18 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- Dunkellin
- Electoral division
- Killeely, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,929 people lived in 572 households in the Killeely electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynastaig, Caherpeak East, Caherweelder, Dunkellin, Killeely Beg, Killeely More, Kiltiernan East
- Placenames
- Ballynabucky 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.