Ballaghamuck
Ballaghamuck is a townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Baile Locha Muc.
- Area
- 236.8 ha
- 585 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 27,266 m² (2.73 ha, 6.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghamuck, from 3,140 m² (0.31 ha, 0.78 acres) to 517,744 m² (51.77 ha, 127.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghamuck 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
19 Dec 2024Conditional
Consist of the Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House, Garage & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460788
7 Sept 2023Conditional
demolish existing dwelling and construct 1 no. dwelling house and garage, with new wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, including retention and modification to existing access. Also all other ancillary site work and services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23506
21 Dec 2022Conditional
construct new dwelling house, construct new domestic garage, construct new effluent treatment system with all associatetd works, construct new domestic entrance off public road and carry out all required ancillary works on site
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 221167
9 Mar 2022N/a
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF PUBLIC ROAD AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22182
9 Mar 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT NEW EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF PUBLIC ROAD AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22185
20 Aug 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21901
9 Apr 2021Refused
RETENTION OF EXISTING ACCESS AND NEW ROADWAY, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Retention · Mayo County Council, 21332
22 Nov 2017Conditional
RETENTION FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE GARAGE AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P12/386 TO A GRANNY FLAT AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 17929
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
- Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballaghamuck.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballaghamuck.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballaghamuck, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballaghamuck.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballaghamuck with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballaghamuck · Baile Locha Muc
- Area
- 2,367,774 m² (236.78 ha, 585.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Crossmolina North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,105 people lived in 445 households in the Crossmolina North electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Behy, Enagh More, Fairfield Upper, Fortland, Rathmore, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Ballaghamuck 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.