Ballyglass East

36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass East, from 26 m² to 345,869 m² (34.59 ha, 85.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyglass East 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.

• 20 Jun 2024Conditional

  to (1) construct a slatted cow wintering shed and (2) a concrete silage pit slab. Retention is also sought to retain an extension to his existing milking parlour and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 293.00 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 39.50 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 24164

• 21 Mar 2024N/a

  to: 1) construct a slatted cow wintering shed and 2) a concrete silage pit slab. Permission for Retention for an extension to the existing milking parlour. All of the above include all associated works and services. Gross floor space of proposed works: 266 sqm. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 39.5 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2482

• 19 Jul 2023N/a

  to: (1) construct a slatted cow wintering shed & (2) a concrete silage pit slab. Permission to retain an extension to his existing milking parlour, all of the above include all associated works & services

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23289

• 26 Jun 2020Conditional

  for retention of an existing raft foundation and permission for the construction of a domestic garage and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works in 39.5 msq

  Retention, 1 home · Galway County Council, 20827

• 19 Nov 2019Conditional

  for domestic garage. Gross floor space of proposed works: 50 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191796

• 18 Oct 2018Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and a treatment plant. Gross floor space of proposed works: 224 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181489

• 24 Feb 2017Conditional

  to (i) Construct an overground slurry storage tank, (ii) Retention permission for existing 4 Bay cattle shed and associated services. (Gross floor space of proposed works: 147.3 sqm. retention.)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 17260

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 East.

Recorded monuments

• GA104-025 Quarry
  Description

  An irregularly shaped hachured feature marked on the 1933 edition of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a disused gravel 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: 11 August 2014

• GA104-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 212, no. 142a) as an ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 29.3m E-W; c. 25m N-S) and described as being ‘extremely ruinous’ as a field fence had been built on top of the bank. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

• GA104-027 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 211-12, no. 142) as a circular ‘Earthen fort (?)’ (diam. c. 40m) which was ‘entirely obscured due to the planting of trees in the interior. According to the landowner, it was defined by a cashel-like wall which was removed by the County Council in the 1940s for use in road-making. No visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA104-027001-) lies within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA104-027001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  Within the site of a cashel (GA104-027----). Although known locally as a children's burial ground, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 August 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballyglass East · An Baile Glas Thoir

Area

1,032,897 m² (103.29 ha, 255.23 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Killogilleen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Killogilleen electoral division: 981 people in 308 households; 93% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloghroak, Fiddaun, Furzypark, Monksfield, Rathcosgry, Shantallow

Placenames

Ballyglass East 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.