Ballardiggan

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballardiggan, from 127 m² to 220,893 m² (22.09 ha, 54.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Ballardiggan 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.

• 13 Nov 2019Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing dwellinghouse & permission is also sought for the construction of a replacement dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 233 sqm, Garage - 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191760

• 27 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works: House - 183.6 sqm, Garage - 48.6 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19992

• 31 May 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, treatment unit and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works Dwelling 183.8sqm, Garage 48.6sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18739

• 28 Jul 2017Conditional

  to 1. to construct an extension and alterations to an existing dwelling house 2. Demolish existing sheds and construct a new domestic shed, 3. Construct a new wastewater treatment system 4. Carry out alterations to existing entrances and all associated services. Gross floor space of proposed works House 54.45sqm, Garage 31.5sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 171144

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

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballardiggan.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballardiggan, 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 Ballardiggan.

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

Name

Ballardiggan · Baile Arda Gaibhle

Area

570,295 m² (57.03 ha, 140.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbeacanty, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Kilbeacanty, the unit of the census

Census 2022

357 people lived in 121 households in the Kilbeacanty electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyturin, Cloonmorris, Drummin, Gorteenboy, Kilcrimple, Knockouran, Lisbrine

Placenames

Ballardiggan 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.