Ballygalda or Trust

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygalda or Trust, from 1,105 m² to 924,121 m² (92.41 ha, 228.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballygalda or Trust 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.

• 16 Aug 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning/riparian habitat for salmonids on the Hind River. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared as part of the application at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660418

• 23 Jun 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning / riparian habitat for salmonids at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660305

• 14 May 2026N/a

  Permission to carry out river restoration works including sowing native trees, dig holding pools, installation of livestock drinkers and insertion of gravel to improve spawning / riparian habitat for salmonids at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2660225

• 14 Feb 2025Conditional

  Permission to construct agricultural shed for the purpose of storing farm machinery together with all associated site works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560051

• 8 May 2023Conditional

  Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, along with all associated works (Previous Planning Ref. No. PD/17/200) at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 23182

• 5 Apr 2023N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system, along with all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 23113

• 15 Mar 2023N/a

  Permission for a new dwelling house, domestic garage on-site wastewater treatment system, along with all associated works at

  Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2381

• 19 Feb 2021Refused

  for construction of new dwelling house and domestic garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, plus all ancillary works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 2195

• 14 May 2020N/a

  for construction of new dwelling house & domestic garage, installation of wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, plus all ancillary works at

  Permission, 2 homes · Roscommon County Council, 20176

• 5 May 2017Conditional

  For the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area along with all associated works at

  Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 17200

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 Ballygalda or Trust.

Recorded monuments

• RO041-020002 Field system
  Description

  On the crest of a low-lying area to E. Visible as two sub-rectangular enclosures enclosing c. 4 ha, probably fields, on aerial photographs (GSIAP: M155-6). They are not visible at ground level in pasture in an area of c. 1.5 ha (c. 3.5 acres). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-021 Canal
  Description

  Turlough O'Conor moved a fleet from the River Suck to Lough Ree in 1139 by digging a canal, enabling him to surprise his Viking enemies by attacking from an unexpected direction. This could only be done by connecting the River Suck with the headwaters of the Hind River through turloughs at Ballinturly and Correal. A section is thought locally to have existed between Correal turlough (dims c. 600m NE-SW; c. 300m NW-SE) and the headwaters of the SW-NE river Hind which are c. 1km apart and running between low hills to the N and S. It is not visible at ground level and much of its course at the E end is occupied by an old lane. A further section (RO041-132----) is c. 800m to the SW. (Moran 1993, 10-11) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-023 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a low-lying landscape. Described in 1963 as a crescent-shaped stony mound (dims c. 6m N-S; c. 6m E-W; H c. 0.6m) open to the N (SMR file). It is not now visible at ground level in pasture. The precise location of this feature cannot be identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-037 Earthwork
  Description

  Marked only on the 1928 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a large enclosure (diam. c. 80m), and situated in a low-lying landscape with slight hills to the N and S. It is not visible at ground level in pasture, apart from a curve in a field bank NW-N (Chord c. 30m). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-127 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On the flood-plain of the S-N Hind River, c. 200m from its W bank. Crescent-shaped grass-covered stony mound (dims 9m E-W; 5m N-S; H 0.15m) which is open to the S. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-130 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a level landscape, c. 20m from the W bank of the S-N Hind River. Circular grass-covered mound of broken and burnt stone (diam. of base 16.5m E-W; 15.3m N-S; H 0.5-1.2m) with a slight hollow (diam. 4-4.5m; D 0.2-0.3m) towards the perimeter at E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO041-132 Canal
  Description

  Turlough O'Conor moved a fleet from the River Suck to Lough Ree in 1139 by digging a canal, enabling him to surprise his Viking enemies by attacking from an unexpected direction. This could only be done by connecting the River Suck with the headwaters of the Hind River through turloughs at Ballinturly and Correal. A section is thought locally to survive on a col between low hills to the E and W, connecting Ballinturly turlough (dims. c. 2 km E-W; c. 0.5 km N-S) with Correal turlough (dims. c. 600m NE-SW; c. 300m NW-SE) which are c. 500m apart. Described as a depression (L c. 300m N-S; Wth c. 7m; D c. 4m) with earthen banks at E and W (Moran 1993, 10-11) which was reclaimed c. 1980. It is now visible as a depression (Wth c. 5-6m; max. D c. 1m at E) with an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; H at W 0.3m; H at E 1.5m) on the W forming the townland boundary with Correal. The bank is planted with hazel and conifers, and has the base of a stone wall on top of it. A second section (RO041-021----) is c. 800m to the NE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygalda or Trust.

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 Ballygalda or Trust, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1340 (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 Ballygalda or Trust with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Ballygalda or Trust

Area

2,415,345 m² (241.53 ha, 596.84 acres)

Civil parish

Roscommon, and its townlands

Barony

Ballintober South

Electoral division

Roscommon Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

5,513 people lived in 1,881 households in the Roscommon Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 43% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cloonyourish, Correal, Derrineel, Knockadangan, Stonepark, Tromaun

Placenames

Ballygalda or Trust 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.