Ballylahy

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylahy, from 515 m² to 113,553 m² (11.36 ha, 28.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballylahy 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.

• 11 Jul 2022Conditional

  of extension to dwelling house. Gross floor space of work to be retained 38.40sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260706

• 29 Jun 2022Conditional

  of slatted shed and all associated works. Gross floor space of work to be retained 182.00sqm.

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260662

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  for a forest access road and entrance.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171477

• 9 May 2017N/a

  for a forest access road and entrance at Lissadultra, Peterswell, Co. Galway.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17647

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Peterswell Turlough SAC 000318
• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Peterswell Turlough 000318

Recorded monuments

• GA114-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pastureland. Only SW half of this rath survives. It is defined by a bank and external fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at SW. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NW and SE and no visible surface trace survives of the enclosing elements to NE of it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA114-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On NW-facing slope of a hill in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse best preserved at SE. The enclosing elements are obscured by overgrowth. There is a possible house site (GA114-011001-) in the SE quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA114-011001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Within the SE quadrant of the cashel (GA114-011----). The remains of a rectangular drytone-built structure (int. Wth 3m; wall T 0.85m) may be those of a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballylahy, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_872 (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.

No address of the register names Ballylahy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballylahy · Baile Uí Fhlaithimh

Area

596,569 m² (59.66 ha, 147.42 acres)

Civil parish

Kilthomas, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kilthomas, the unit of the census

Census 2022

101 people lived in 41 households in the Kilthomas electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Bullaunagh, Bullaunagh, Castledaly, Kilcarrooraun, Lissadulta

Placenames

Ballylahy 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.