Ballyterrim

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyterrim, from 219 m² to 115,402 m² (11.54 ha, 28.52 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballyterrim 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.

• 24 Apr 2026Conditional

  for the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house and the construction of a new dwelling house with; a domestic garage, an on-site sewage treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2660631

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  (a) construction of a new dwelling, (b) construction of a domestic garage/store (c) wastewater treatment system with percolation area (d) new site entrance and (e)all associated external site works . Gross floor space of proposed works house 221sqm and garage 60 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 22679

• 9 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a serviced dwelling house with a domestic store/garage. Gross floor space of proposed works (house) 180.3 sqm. (garage) 51.4 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 181601

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 Ballyterrim.

Recorded monuments

• GA099-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating farmland. A poorly preserved oval enclosure (NW-SE 33.5m, NNE-SSW 31.5m) defined by a bank best preserved at NW. Though there are steep scarps immediately outside the line of the bank from S to NW, they are probably modern and the result of the construction of a byroad which skirts the monument at S, and a farmyard which lies immediately to W. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-035 Quarry
  Description

  A hachured feature marked on the 1946-7 revision of the OS 6-inch map proved on inspection in 1983 to be a quarry. As it is of post-AD 1700 date it does not come within the remit of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 8 August 2014

• GA099-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a ridge in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (ENE-WSW 24.8m, N-S 23.5m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from E to SSE. A field wall cuts the monument at SSE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-037 Children's burial ground
  Description

  On a hill in otherwise level farmland. A subrectangular CBG (E-W 15.4m, NNE-SSW 12m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone at N and by a field boundary, running E-W, at S; no enclosing element is visible at E or W. The interior slopes from NE to SW and irregularly shaped grave-markers are visible. A pile of stones occupies NE corner of the interior. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Some 130m N of a ringfort (GA099-039----). Oval ringfort (N-S 28.7m, E-W 25.7m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone. A field wall overlies the monument from SE to S and at N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular ringfort (WSW-ENE 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone with slight traces of an external fosse at NNW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE. A gap (Wth 2m) at WNW may be original. A ringfort (GA099-038----) lies c. 130m to N. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On SW-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Circular rath (D 20m), in fair condition, defined by a bank best preserved at N. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from N to ENE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA099-198 Burial
  Description

  On a gentle SW-facing slope in pastureland, c. 120m W of a stream. Discovered in May 1992, at a depth of 0.3-0.5m, while digging an ESB cable trench. A number of skeletons were discovered, possibly two adults and a child. When inspected the trench had been backfilled and all that survived were a number of human bone fragments and traces of burnt clay (Topgr. Files, OPW). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyterrim, about 1 in 20 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

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

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

Name

Ballyterrim · Béal Átha an tSirriaim

Area

1,052,769 m² (105.28 ha, 260.14 acres)

Civil parish

Killallaghtan, and its townlands

Barony

Clonmacnowen

Electoral division

Clontuskert, the unit of the census

Census 2022

218 people lived in 90 households in the Clontuskert electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardranny Beg, Ardranny More, Ballyluoge, Cartron, Cooleeny East, Cooleeny West, Cooltymurraghy, Coxtown, Park

Placenames

Ballyterrim 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.