Ballinglen

88 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinglen, from 166 m² to 920,065 m² (92.01 ha, 227.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballinglen 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.

• 29 Aug 2024Conditional

  A ten year permission for the development of a wind farm project. The development will consist of: - the construction of up to 8 No. wind turbines with a maximum overall tip height of between 176-180m, comprising rotor diameters ranging between 133-150m and hub heights ranging between 105-112m high; - associated wind turbine foundations and hard stand areas at each turbine; - 1 No. 38kV electrical substation building, compound and associated infrastructure works; - 1 No. temporary welfare site compound and associated works; - 20kV underground cables facilitating the connection of turbines to 38kV electrical substation and all associated infrastructure and works; - provision of a new temporary roadway connecting the R315 and the L51723 in the townland of Ballinglen to facilitate the delivery of turbine components and other abnormal loads; - widening and ancillary works to sections of the L51723 in the townlands of Keerglen and Ballykinlettragh; - provision of new permanent site access off the L51723; - upgrading of existing agricultural tracks and drainage infrastructure, and construction of new internal site tracks and all associated works as required; - construction of a clear-span bridge crossing the Keerglen River within the development area; - 1 no. borrow pit; - designated peat storage areas alongside internal side roads; - site drainage; - ancillary forestry felling to facilitate construction and operation of the proposed development; - all associated infrastructure and site development works. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have been prepared in respect of the proposed development and will be submitted with the application.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460537

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500

Recorded monuments

• MA014-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

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• MA014-002007 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

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• MA014-021 Children's burial ground
  Description

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• MA014-022 Castle - tower house
  Description

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• MA014-023 Enclosure
  Description

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• MA014-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

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• MA014-027 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

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• MA014-028 Enclosure
  Description

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Architectural heritage

• Ballinglen Presbyterian Church, church/chapel, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Presbyterian church, built 1848-50; opened 1850, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (north) front. Burnt, 1864. Reopened, 1865. In use, 1943. Closed, 1959. Now in ruins. Pitched roofs now missing, cut-limestone coping to gables including creeper- or ivy-covered cut-limestone coping to gable (south) with overgrown bellcote or chimney stack to apex[?], and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond stepped eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone battered walls on limestone ashlar chamfered plinth retaining sections of fine roughcast or lime rendered surface finish. Round-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and creeper- or ivy-covered red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Bisected round-headed door opening to entrance (north) front with step threshold now missing, and red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Manse, 1875–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey manse, dated 1876; extant 1896, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1959[?]. Now in ruins. Pitched roofs now missing with rendered chimney stacks having cut-limestone stringcourses below capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and rainwater goods not visible on overgrown eaves. Overgrown coursed or snecked limestone wall to front (west) elevation originally rendered with date stone-inscribed ("1876") drag edged tooled cut-limestone quoins to corners; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed window openings with dressings not visible. Set back from line of road in overgrown grounds.

• Ballinglen Bridge, bridge, 1800–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1838[?]. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls centred on limestone ashlar triangular cutwater to pier having pyramidal capping with lichen-covered rounded coping to parapets. Pair of segmental arches with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged rock faced cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Ballinglen River with unkempt banks to river.

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 Ballinglen, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinglen.

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 Ballinglen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballinglen · Baile an Ghleanna

Area

5,869,224 m² (586.92 ha, 1,450.32 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballycastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghoo, Annagh More, Ballycastle, Ballykinlettragh, Carrowcuilleen, Carrowkibbock Upper, Glencullin, Keerglen, Killeena, Rathoonagh

Placenames

Ballinglen 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.