Ballyargadaun

117 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyargadaun, from 65 m² to 163,571 m² (16.36 ha, 40.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 34 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 Ballyargadaun 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.

• 12 Aug 2026N/a

  for the construction of a Dwelling House, Domestic Garage, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all site associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2661384

• 23 Aug 2023Conditional

  for the construction of a domestic storage shed to the rear of existing dwelling house & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2360996

• 8 Apr 2022Conditional

  to construct a five bay loose cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works: 258 sqm.

  Permission · Galway County Council, 22477

• 14 Mar 2022Refused

  construction of a Dwelling House, Treatment Unit, Percolation area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of proposed works 187 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260222

• 28 Jan 2022N/a

  to construct of a five bay loose cattle shed. Gross floor space of proposed works:258 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 2289

• 19 Aug 2021Refused

  to construct a new dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank/treatment unit with percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: House: 225.7 sqm, Garage: 62.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 211517

• 30 Sept 2020Conditional

  of (a) single story extension to rear of existing shop/convenience store and (b) change of use of part of existing convenience store/shop to incorporate an internal ancillary off-licence area and all associated site services. Gross floor space of work to be retained: 11.85 sqm

  Retention · Galway County Council, 201406

• 24 Jul 2019Conditional

  for 1) demolition of existing sun room and construction of proposed extension to contain a kitchen to side of existing dwellinghouse, 2) proposed changes to existing plans and elevations of dwelling previously granted under pl. Ref. No. 05/712 to include slider door and rear entrance door and 3) removal of steel cladded garage/store and replacement with permanent domestic garage/store. Gross floor space of proposed works: 26.0 sqm. Gross floor space of any demolition: 12.0 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191135

• 17 Jul 2019Conditional

  for new development to include: erect a commercial grain silo and all associated site ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works: Grain Silo - 7.29 sqm

  Permission · Galway County Council, 191085

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168

Recorded monuments

• GA116-009 Quarry
  Description

  This is a disused quarry; it is not an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 21 August 2015

• GA116-010 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pastureland. This natural spring well is known as ‘St Erneen’s well’. It is enclosed by a circular drystone-built wall with a gap (Wth 0.9m), now blocked with wooden fencing, opening to the N. It is capped with a circular stone (diam. 1.32m), which has a central hole (diam. 0.36m). Rags are tied to a nearby ash tree to the NE and a hawthorn tree to the S. (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 9). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 December 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyargadaun, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyargadaun · Baile Uí Argadáin

Area

1,953,970 m² (195.4 ha, 482.84 acres)

Civil parish

Leitrim, and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Leitrim, the unit of the census

Census 2022

553 people lived in 179 households in the Leitrim electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonlee, Dalystown Demesne, Kylebrack East, Kylebrack West, Leitrim Beg, Limehill

Placenames

Ballyargadaun 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.