Ardboley North
Townland in the civil parish of Balla, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish An Ardbhuaile Thuaidh
- Area
- 88.8 ha
- 220 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,105 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardboley North, from 269 m² to 85,166 m² (8.52 ha, 21.04 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 40 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardboley North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
1 Aug 2025Conditional
replace a septic tank and percolation area, retain existing shed and front poarch on dwelling, demolish part of dwelling and renovate same with extension to rear, renovate existing shed with new roof with associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560515
30 Jul 2024Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24307
30 Jul 2024Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area and all ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24310
20 Jan 2023Conditional
Construction of a roofed manure pit and slatted shed with underground slurry storage tank along with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2320
2 Feb 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 1856
27 Jun 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND SOIL POLISHING FILTER TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17507
17 May 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT SLATTED HOUSE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 17372
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Balla Turlough 000463
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardboley North.
Architectural heritage
- Bridge, 1855–1865 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch railway bridge over road, opened 1862; extant 1894. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls between tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered abutment walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets supporting replacement mild steel railings. Single round arch with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning road with unkempt embankments to road.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardboley North.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardboley North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ardboley North · An Ardbhuaile Thuaidh
- Area
- 888,332 m² (88.83 ha, 219.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Balla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balla electoral division: 1,661 people in 631 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ardboley South, Balla, Ballymackeogh, Garhawnagh, Lagaturrin, Pollavaddy, Rathduff
- Placenames
- Ardboley North 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.