Ballinagran
Townland in the civil parish of Balla, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile na gCrann
- Area
- 134.7 ha
- 333 acres
- Land parcels
- 43
- registered freehold, median 14,692 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinagran, from 4 m² to 129,956 m² (13 ha, 32.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballinagran 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
11 Jul 2025Conditional
The development shall consist of: The construction of a new prefabricated residential dwelling, along with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560462
12 Feb 2025N/a
The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Construct new dwelling house, (2) Construct new domestic garage, (3) Construct new wastewater treatment system, (4) Construct new domestic entrance, and (5) Carry out all ancillary work on site.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560072
29 Sept 2022N/a
The construction of a single storey dwelling house, a detached workshop/gym and installation of new onsite waste water treatment system and all ancillary works.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22850
8 Apr 2020Conditional
UPGRADE EXISTING EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM WITH NEW SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20247
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinagran.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinagran.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinagran.
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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinagran.
- 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 Ballinagran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinagran · Baile na gCrann
- Area
- 1,347,073 m² (134.71 ha, 332.87 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
- Ballyclogher, Ballymacloughlin, Ballyrourke, Dooros, Lakill, Prison East, Prison South, Tawnagh More
- Placenames
- Ballinagran 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.