# Ballingarden, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Turlough, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile an Ghairdín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 329,988 m² (33 ha, 81.54 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Turlough, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/turlough.md - Barony: Carra - Electoral division: Strade, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 647 people lived in 239 households in the Strade electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/35902 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150129 - Centre: latitude 53.938559, longitude -9.19126 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingarden, from 526 m² to 100,018 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 962128: 100,018 m² (10 ha, 24.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962128.md - Parcel 910433: 85,152 m² (8.52 ha, 21.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910433.md - Parcel 894996: 61,661 m² (6.17 ha, 15.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894996.md - Parcel 980577: 46,082 m² (4.61 ha, 11.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980577.md - Parcel 967352: 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/967352.md - Parcel 5593042: 4,106 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5593042.md - Parcel 2527622: 3,793 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2527622.md - Parcel 4768487: 3,501 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4768487.md - Parcel 2475630: 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475630.md - Parcel 904245: 2,671 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/904245.md - Parcel 1003568: 2,568 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003568.md - Parcel 2475704: 2,488 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475704.md - Parcel 2475597: 2,460 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2475597.md - Parcel 918007: 2,032 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/918007.md - Parcel 943765: 1,179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/943765.md - Parcel 932993: 591 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/932993.md - Parcel 941123: 526 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/941123.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballingarden in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 7 Dec 2023, Mayo County Council 23656: Conditional. Permission. construction of a single storey extension to the front of an existing dwelling house, minor elevational changes to the existing house, decommissioning of existing foul water system and installation of a new onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/23656/0 - 8 Oct 2018, Mayo County Council 18769: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18769/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballingarden. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA060-055: Water mill - horizontal-wheeled, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA060-055----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballingarden. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballingarden, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballingarden. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballingarden.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballingarden.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballingarden.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballingarden with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Caurans Lower: https://everytownland.com/mayo/caurans-lower.md - Caurans Upper or Oughterard: https://everytownland.com/mayo/caurans-upper-or-oughterard.md - Derryhick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/derryhick.md - Fisherhill: https://everytownland.com/mayo/fisherhill.md - Treanybrogaun: https://everytownland.com/mayo/treanybrogaun.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballingarden - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/ballingarden