Ballybaun

75 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybaun, from 17 m² to 81,936 m² (8.19 ha, 20.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 39 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 Ballybaun 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.

• 25 Jun 2025Refused

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, proprietary treatment system and percolation area and for all ancillary services and site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 244 sqm(H), 35.00 sqm(G)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2560832

• 15 Oct 2018Conditional

  to erect flood lighting for existing playing fields.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 181454

• 27 Apr 2018Conditional

  for 1) the removal of the existing front porch and the extension at the rear of the existing residence, as well as the shed at the north side of the existing house, 2) construction of new single storey extensions at the rear of the existing residence, 3) replacement of the existing waste-water treat system, 4) site works including construction of an additional car parking area. Gross floor space of proposed works 113.25 sqm. Demolition 60.17sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 18535

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Pollduagh Cave, Gort 000320

Recorded monuments

• GA128-012 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a slight rise in low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (48m NE-SW; 42m NW-SE) defined by a traces of its foundation line from ESE to S to NNW. It is overlain by a later drystone wall. No trace survives from NNW to E; there is a silage pit in the N sector. The later wall is much-collapsed between NE and E. From W to NNW traces of the original wall (Wth c. 2.2m; ext. H 0.4m) are most clearly visible but it is overgrown with briars. Two sheds have been erected within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA128-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a gentle NE-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the OS 1:2500 plan (surveyed 1912-16) as a possible pit. However, according to local information, a 'fort' was known at this location. On inspection in July 1982 a very low grass-covered semicircular bank of earth and stone (Wth 1.6m; base Wth 4.2m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.15m) was visible from NE to SW (int. dim. 12m NE -SW). The outer ground level was higher than the interior and a number of grass-covered boulders were visible in the interior. The 'fort' was not known to ever have been any higher and it had not been bulldozed - stones were thrown into it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2019

• GA128-014 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 23m) defined by a drystone wall overlain by a field wall at N and SW. Though much collapsed, double wall-facing is evident intermittently. A gap at ESE may be original. A possible souterrain (GA128-014001-) is associated. (Fahey 1893, 5) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

• GA128-014001 Souterrain
  Description

  Within the interior of a cashel (GA128-014----). According to Fahey (1893, 5) based on ‘local traditions, as well as structural indications’, it is likely that there is a ‘cave’ (possible souterrain) in the 'fort'. No visible surface trace of it survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballybaun, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_729 (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 Ballybaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Ballybaun · An Baile Bán

Area

1,096,084 m² (109.61 ha, 270.85 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacduagh, and its townlands

Barony

Kiltartan

Electoral division

Beagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

789 people lived in 274 households in the Beagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 42% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyboy, Ballyhugh, Ballysheedy, Caherbroder, Cloonnahaha, Laghtyshaughnessy, Sheeaun

Placenames

Ballybaun 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.