Ballymaquiff North

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaquiff North, from 1,339 m² to 290,830 m² (29.08 ha, 71.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Ballymaquiff North 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house with attached domestic garage and install a wastewater treatment system as well as all ancillary site works, site boundaries and services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660426

• 29 May 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and all associated works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 163.41 sqm (house) & 24.00 sqm (garage)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2460639

• 9 Feb 2023Refused

  for the construction of single storey dwelling house and garage and waste water system.Gross floor space of proposed works 163.41sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360096

• 5 Jan 2023N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site services/works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 182.94sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 231

• 3 Nov 2022Refused

  for the construction of single storey Dwelling house and garage and waste water system.Gross floor space of proposed works 163.41sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2261106

• 5 May 2022N/a

  to construct a dwelling house, domestic garage/fuel store, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter and associated site services/works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 245.34 sqm & 60 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22589

• 19 Apr 2022Conditional

  for extension/renovations to existing dwelling house as constructed, along with domestic garage and upgrade of septic tank to wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works 69 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260368

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  to construct a four bay single slatted unit with creep area. Gross floor space of proposed works: 239 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 20222

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 Ballymaquiff North.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-018 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In pastureland on the summit of a low ridge c. 15m to the W of the Claremorris to Limerick railway line. In existence in 1574 when 'Bally McDuffe' castle was in the possession of 'Redmund McHubert' (Nolan 1901, 113). It comprises a fairly well-preserved rectangular tower (10.4m NE-SW; 9m NW-SE) at least four storeys high. The original doorway, centrally placed in the NE wall, gives access to a lobby with a murder-hole above. From the lobby, doorways lead to the spiral stairs in the N corner, the guardroom to the S and to main ground-floor room. There are subsidiary chambers to the NE of the main rooms on the 1st floor and between the 2nd/3rd floors. Stone vaults exist between 1st/2nd and 2nd/3rd floors. There are fireplaces in the SE walls of the ground and 2nd floors, the former is an insertion into a window embrasure. A passage opening off the stairs between 2nd/3rd floors, runs along the NW wall to a garderobe in the W corner, its exit chute is visible externally at the base of the SW wall. An intramural passage also opens off the side of a window embrasure in the SW wall on the 2nd floor. It runs SE and may possibly lead to a concealed chamber below it in the thickness of the vault arch. Little or no trace of the side-walls of the 3rd floor remain. All the surviving windows are flat, round or ogee-headed single lights. Wicker-centring survives on the main vaults, the vault of the guardroom and on some of the window embrasures. A short length of walling (L c. 3m, H 2m) abuts the mid-point of the SE wall of the castle; it runs SE to edge of a scarp. It could possibly be part of original bawn wall. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 601) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 August 2021

• GA113-019 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 264, no. 56) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 30m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall which was ruined to its foundations. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 February 2019

• GA114-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In tillage. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 280, no. 65) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 28.7m) with a ‘large L-shaped souterrain’ (GA114-014001-) in the interior. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• GA114-014001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a possible cashel (GA114-014----). According to McCaffrey (1952 280, no. 65) there was ‘a large L-shaped souterrain’ in the interior. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 October 2019

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1865–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone railway bridge, built 1869, carrying road over Ennis Junction to Athenry railway line. Elliptical arch. Rock-faced rusticated walls, voussoirs, piers and abutments, having recent render coping added to recently rebuilt parapet walls. Abutment walls to both elevations. Ashlar soffit.

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 Ballymaquiff North, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ballymaquiff North · Baile Mhic Dhuibh Thuaidh

Area

1,000,165 m² (100.02 ha, 247.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Dunkellin

Electoral division

Skehanagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

536 people lived in 185 households in the Skehanagh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 47% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyglass West, Ballylara, Ballymaquiff South, Ballymarcahaun, Lydacan, Pollataggle, Shessy North, Tullira

Placenames

Ballymaquiff North 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.