Ballybackagh

67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybackagh, from 242 m² to 49,600 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybackagh 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.

• 18 Aug 2025Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25342

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: Shrule Turlough SAC 000525
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough 000525

Recorded monuments

• MA121-151 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In karst, with pasture to N and W. Subcircular area (36m N-S; 33m E-W), enclosed by ruined wall of large boulders; original facing survives SE to N (Wth 1.8m; H 0.5m). Circular mound (Wth 10m E-W; H 0.4m) in centre of interior may represent hut site (MA121-151001-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 242. Date of upload: 14 January 2015

• MA121-151001 Hut site
  Description

  On interior of a cashel (MA121-151----). Lavelle (1994, 39, no. 242) that a ‘Circular mound (Wth 10m E-W; H 0.4m) in centre of interior may represent hut site.’ Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 14 January 2015

• MA121-152 Castle - tower house
  Description

  In farmyard, surrounded by farm buildings. Very poorly preserved, inaccessible remains of ground floor of rectangular tower (10.4m N-S; 13m E-W). Upper storeys have collapsed into interior. External walls largely robbed. No other architectural features. Owned by Walter MacJonyn in 1574 (Knox 1908, 347). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 704. Date of upload: 14 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballybackagh · Baile Bacach

Area

335,395 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainebeg, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Houndswood, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Houndswood electoral division: 659 people in 256 households; 86% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahermaculick, Cahernabrock, Kilmacduagh, Pollnabunny

Placenames

Ballybackagh 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.