Ballinrumpa
Ballinrumpa is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmovee, barony of Costello, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Baile an Rumpa.
- Area
- 73.9 ha
- 183 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 8,754 m² (0.88 ha, 2.16 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrumpa, from 55 m² to 81,549 m² (8.15 ha, 20.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballinrumpa 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
5 Aug 2026Conditional
Full planning for a single storey extension the rear of the existing cottage and A two storey extension to the side of existing dwelling along with the upgrading of existing septic tank to a treatment plant with Coco soil polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660625
6 Jan 2026Conditional
Renovation and extension of existing dwelling house, including construction of a new sewage treatment system, construction of a separate garage/studio outbuilding, siting of a temporary caravan and temporary connection to services for accommodation during the construction period, and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660037
23 Dec 2025N/a
Renovation and extension of existing dwelling house, including construction of a new sewage treatment system, construction of a separate garage/studio outbuilding, siting of a temporary caravan and temporary connection to services for accommodation during the construction period, and all associated site works at the above address.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660027
10 Jun 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 2 homes · Mayo County Council, 21613
15 Oct 2020Refused
CONSTRUCT NEW DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, PROPOSED EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20764
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 Ballinrumpa.
Recorded monuments
- MA073-015 Cross
Description
In a thicket of overgrowth in a field of average pasture, located on a narrow NW–SE ridge, with good views. The location is named ‘Knocknacreisha’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. This cross is not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is indicated as ‘Cross (Remains of)’ on the 1919 edition. There is no visible trace of the cross. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 4 June 2021
- MA073-040 Standing stone
Description
In pasture, located immediately adjacent to a field wall, overlooked by rising ground immediately to NW and by a ridge at N–NE. This standing stone is not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is indicted on the 1919 edition where it is named ‘Cloighard or Loighta’. Upright straight-sided stone block (H 1.65m; Wth 0.74m; T 0.47m), rectangular in cross-section, with the long axis oriented roughly NE–SW. Slight shoulder-like indentations on the NW face narrow the width of the upper portion (H 0.5m; Wth 0.49m) of the stone. The top of the stone has a roughly pyramidal profile. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2021
- MA073-058 Fulacht fia
Description
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 June 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinrumpa.
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 Ballinrumpa, 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 Ballinrumpa.
- 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 Ballinrumpa with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinrumpa · Baile an Rumpa
- Area
- 738,956 m² (73.9 ha, 182.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmovee, and its townlands
- Barony
- Costello
- Electoral division
- Kilmovee, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 660 people lived in 265 households in the Kilmovee electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Kilmovee, Ranagissaun, Rusheens West, Sraheens
- Placenames
- Ballinrumpa 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.