Ballymaquiff South

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymaquiff South, from 15,948 m² (1.59 ha, 3.94 acres) to 102,706 m² (10.27 ha, 25.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 South 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballymaquiff South in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 South.

Recorded monuments

• GA113-020 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in rough pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (37m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a bank which is obscured by field-clearance rubble from NW through E to SW. A modern field wall, running NW-SE, cuts through W half of the monument. Traces of an L-shaped bank of earth and boulders visible in the SE quadrant of the interior may possibly be the foundations of a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 January 2017

• GA113-021 Earthwork
  Description

  In level pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular earthwork (14.5m N-S; 12m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone, now obscured by field-clearance rubble. A central depression (diam. 3.5m) is evident within the interior. Possibly a barrow or a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 July 2019

• GA113-022 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In level pastureland. Circular cashel (diam. 21m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. Field-clearance rubble has obscured the enclosing wall at SE. The interior is divided by an old field wall running from ENE to WSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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 South, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_764 (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 Ballymaquiff South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballymaquiff South · Baile Mhic Dhuibh Theas

Area

442,199 m² (44.22 ha, 109.27 acres)

Civil parish

Ardrahan, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

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

Ballymaquiff North, Ballymarcahaun, Coolfin, Pollataggle

Placenames

Ballymaquiff South 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.