Ballygar

279 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygar, from 2 m² to 146,111 m² (14.61 ha, 36.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 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.

• M2Village Centre (City/Town/village Centre, central area)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 102 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R2Residential Existing (Existing residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 84 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.5Transport Infrastructure (Mixed/general transport uses)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• S3Community Facilities (Community facilities)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1Residential (Phase 1) (New/proposed residential)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G1Open Space/Recreation & Amenity (Open space, park)
  Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028, Galway County · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  for the installation of an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) on the front façade of the existing Ballygar Credit union building and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660365

• 30 Jan 2026Conditional

  to erect new timber preparation building to include concrete yard and all associated site works. A Natura Impact Statement and Construction Environmental Management Plan in relation to the above application will be submitted to the planning authority with the application

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2660124

• 15 Dec 2025N/a

  to erect new timber preparation building to include concrete yard and all associated site works

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2561854

• 26 Nov 2024Conditional

  for the installation of a 30 metre lattice telecommunications antenna support structure carrying antennas, remote radio units (RRU’s), dishes, GPS, cable ladder, gantry poles, supporting fixtures, concrete foundation together with ground-based equipment cabinets, fencing, access track and all associated site development works to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2461604

• 18 Oct 2024Refused

  for the change of use of commercial to residential use and for the construction of a one bedroom residential extension to existing commercial unit together with all ancillary site works and services. Gross floor space to be retained: 51.14 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24306

• 24 Jul 2024Conditional

  to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house, treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works and retention for an access road and entrance. Gross floor space of proposed works: 287.00 sqm (house) & 62.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460924

• 21 May 2024N/a

  to construct a new fully serviced private dwelling house, treatment system, percolation area, domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 287.00 sqm (house) & 62.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460591

• 2 Feb 2024Conditional

  of an extension of 74 sqm to existing dwelling

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2432

• 24 Nov 2023Refused

  to construct 16 No. two storey dwelling houses, with temporary sewage treatment plant and connection to Uisce Eireann wastewater treatment plant to take treated sewage. The application includes for the demolition of a dwelling house to provide access to the site from the public road, and all associated site works and services as well as car parking and landscaping. Gross floor space of proposed works: 1,911.00 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 275 sqm

  Permission, 16 homes · Galway County Council, 2361409

• 22 Jun 2021N/a

  to construct a warehouse for use as a light industrial workshop, storage, parking area, a connection to the public sewer and all associated site works at the above location. Gross floor space of proposed works 445.45sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 211100

• 1 Feb 2021Conditional

  for change use of existing Public House to Retail use (86 sqm) and to construct an extension (14.5 sqm) to same. Gross floor space of proposed works: 14.5 sqqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2185

• 11 Oct 2019Conditional

  to construct a fully serviced private dwelling house and domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 309.8 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191588

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the following: A: Change of use from Part-of existing dwelling house (former commercial unit) to proposed commercial unit (operating as a barber shop), B: Proposed minor elevational changes, C: Proposed signage and associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Change of Use - 31.19 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: Change of use - 31.19 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191541

• 5 Mar 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a band stand, landscaping and all associated works. Gross floor space 25sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 18232

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

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Ballygar Bog NHA 000229

Recorded monuments

• GA033-013 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In level grassland W of Ballygar village. In existence in 1574 when 'Beallagharee' castle was in the possession of 'Hugh McTirilagh' (Nolan 1901b, 119). According to OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 112), it belonged to the 'Blakes'. Apart from a faint rise in the ground surface, no visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

• Ballygar National School, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached U-plan school, built c.1880, having six-bay main elevation with two-bay slightly higher and possibly later wings projecting forwards at ends. Pitched slate roof with projecting timber bargeboards to gables, ashlar limestone chimneystack to middle of main elevation having offset and cornice with modillions, and rendered possibly later chimneystacks elsewhere. Copper-covered ventilators to ridges. Rendered walls with render plinth. Square-headed windows with replacement uPVC windows, and painted sills. Square-headed glazed timber panelled doors set into flat concrete-roofed windbreaks to re-entrant corners and having coursed polychrome concrete brick surrounds. Inscribed limestone date-stone to middle of main façade, now weathered and date obscured. Extensive tarmacadam forcourt to school. Building set at north end of square, facing Catholic church.

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 Ballygar, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygar · Béal Átha Ghártha

Area

1,192,972 m² (119.3 ha, 294.79 acres)

Civil parish

Killeroran, and its townlands

Barony

Killian

Electoral division

Killeroran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,301 people lived in 512 households in the Killeroran electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghrane or Castlekelly, Cartron, Hermitage, Killeroran, Tullyroe

Placenames

Ballygar 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.