Ballycrossaun

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycrossaun, from 75 m² to 141,238 m² (14.12 ha, 34.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballycrossaun 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.

• 22 Dec 2022Conditional

  for the development of a 20kV cable route consisting of c.685m of overhead line supported on wooden poles and c.625m of underground cabling in ducting. This cable route will connect the permitted Ballycrissane Solar Farm (ref 16/1500) to an existing 38kv substation in the village.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2261301

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  to construct a slatted cubicle house with a calving pen and underground slurry storage tanks ancillary concrete and associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works; 531.64sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 201076

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 Ballycrossaun.

Recorded monuments

• GA118-005 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• GA118-007 House - 18th/19th century
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Ormond View, house, 1800–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached T-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c.1820, with single-bay single-storey addition to north end. Hipped slate roof with pair of centrally located cement rendered chimneystacks with terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls (covered in ivy). Square-headed window openings with cut-stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed doorway with timber double-leaf door with round-headed panels, petal fanlight and sidelights with geometric glazing. Outbuildings ranged around courtyard to north of house. Decorative cast-iron double-leaf gate to road entrance, flanked by cement rendered piers, with cement rendered flanking walls.

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 Ballycrossaun, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballycrossaun · Baile Crosáin

Area

852,412 m² (85.24 ha, 210.64 acres)

Civil parish

Tiranascragh, and its townlands

Barony

Longford

Electoral division

Kilmalinoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

221 people lived in 86 households in the Kilmalinoge electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashfield, Cappagh, Corr, Derryhiveny North, Gortadullisk, Kill, Knavagh, Longford, Newtown

Placenames

Ballycrossaun 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.