Ballygowan

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygowan, from 707 m² to 374,125 m² (37.41 ha, 92.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Ballygowan 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  to demolish existing derelict house and construct a new dwelling house with a waste water treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2561887

• 10 Sept 2025Conditional

  for the construction of (a) dwelling house, (b) septic tank and percolation area (c) all associated site services

  Retention · Galway County Council, 2561289

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

• GA125-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in hilly pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (32m E-W; 29m N-S) defined by a scarp and external fosse. Modern field walls encircle the monument. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 October 2016

• GA125-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a hillock in rolling pastureland. Subcircular rath (38m E-W; 35m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a scarp (H 2.7m), intervening fosse (Wth 2.8m) and outer bank (Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1,8m). There is a modern causewayed entrance gap at N. The interior rises towards the centre. A souterrain (GA125-018001-) is associated. Revised by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 November 2018 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 205/1955).

• GA125-018001 Souterrain
  Description

  According to local information, there is a souterrain in the interior of the rath (GA125-018----), possibly the SW quadrant. Its entrance was blocked up as it posed a danger to livestock. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 26 November 2018

• GA125-019 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

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

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 Ballygowan, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygowan · Baile an Ghabhann

Area

2,986,424 m² (298.64 ha, 737.96 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynakill (Loughrea Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Leitrim

Electoral division

Ballynagar, the unit of the census

Census 2022

217 people lived in 81 households in the Ballynagar electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Abbeyville, Ballyglass, Barnaboy, Cappagh, Coarseparks, Cuilleen, Derryvunlam, Lackan, Mountainpark

Placenames

Ballygowan 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.