Balloor

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloor, from 177 m² to 61,459 m² (6.15 ha, 15.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• P1Agriculture
  Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 65 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise & Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 20 Mar 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the refurbishment of the existing detached bungalow with revised elevations, together with the construction of a new two-storey extension to the rear, construction of a new garage, connection to public sewer, site landscaping, new boundary treatments, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560156

• 23 Jan 2025N/a

  The development will consist of the refurbishment of the existing detached bungalow with revised elevations, together with the construction of a new two-storey extension to the rear, construction of a new garage, connection to public sewer, site landscaping, new boundary treatments, and all associated site works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560031

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Balloor.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Balloor.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Balloor.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_354 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Balloor with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Balloor · An Baile Úr

Area

616,743 m² (61.67 ha, 152.4 acres)

Civil parish

Breaghwy, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Castlebar Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Castlebar Rural electoral division: 7,935 people in 2,987 households; 68% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Hawthornlodge, Kilkenny, Knockrawer, Lightford, Lisnakirka or Milebush, Shanvally

Placenames

Balloor 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.