# Ballybackagh, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmainebeg, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile Bacach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 335,395 m² (33.54 ha, 82.88 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,613 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmainebeg, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/kilmainebeg.md - Barony: Kilmaine - Electoral division: Houndswood, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34980 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150172 - Centre: latitude 53.535622, longitude -9.137141 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 67 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybackagh, from 242 m² to 49,600 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 992889: 49,600 m² (4.96 ha, 12.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/992889.md - Parcel 903324: 27,519 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903324.md - Parcel 964776: 18,931 m² (1.89 ha, 4.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/964776.md - Parcel 940414: 18,173 m² (1.82 ha, 4.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940414.md - Parcel 981454: 11,617 m² (1.16 ha, 2.87 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981454.md - Parcel 917927: 9,739 m² (0.97 ha, 2.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/917927.md - Parcel 977094: 9,393 m² (0.94 ha, 2.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977094.md - Parcel 976947: 8,984 m² (0.9 ha, 2.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976947.md - Parcel 930622: 8,932 m² (0.89 ha, 2.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/930622.md - Parcel 977039: 8,301 m² (0.83 ha, 2.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977039.md - Parcel 894134: 7,962 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894134.md - Parcel 1004247: 7,644 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004247.md - Parcel 943095: 7,166 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943095.md - Parcel 977011: 6,905 m² (0.69 ha, 1.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977011.md - Parcel 986053: 6,858 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986053.md - Parcel 986057: 6,267 m² (0.63 ha, 1.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986057.md - Parcel 940562: 6,123 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/940562.md - Parcel 937397: 5,794 m² (0.58 ha, 1.43 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937397.md - Parcel 977121: 5,439 m² (0.54 ha, 1.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977121.md - Parcel 1004132: 4,861 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004132.md - Parcel 903733: 4,808 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903733.md - Parcel 981464: 4,773 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981464.md - Parcel 873948: 4,394 m² (0.44 ha, 1.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/873948.md - Parcel 903603: 4,254 m² (0.43 ha, 1.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/903603.md - Parcel 937815: 3,782 m² (0.38 ha, 0.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/937815.md - Parcel 933528: 3,595 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933528.md - Parcel 874160: 3,218 m² (0.32 ha, 0.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874160.md - Parcel 977057: 3,193 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977057.md - Parcel 899526: 3,058 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899526.md - Parcel 1004351: 3,056 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004351.md - Parcel 977046: 2,923 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/977046.md - Parcel 981157: 2,672 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/981157.md - Parcel 1012539: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1012539.md - Parcel 899332: 2,613 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899332.md - Parcel 894304: 2,566 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894304.md - Parcel 894443: 2,520 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894443.md - Parcel 943335: 2,511 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/943335.md - Parcel 874386: 2,399 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874386.md - Parcel 2537150: 2,375 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2537150.md - Parcel 909453: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909453.md - Parcel 899426: 2,247 m² (0.22 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899426.md - Parcel 894467: 2,226 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/894467.md - Parcel 5097682: 2,175 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097682.md - Parcel 874009: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/874009.md - Parcel 899602: 2,144 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899602.md - Parcel 909053: 2,104 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/909053.md - Parcel 2518611: 2,027 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2518611.md - Parcel 937630: 1,906 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/937630.md - Parcel 937669: 1,853 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/937669.md - Parcel 928197: 1,812 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/928197.md - Parcel 986379: 1,808 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/986379.md - Parcel 944326: 1,767 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/944326.md - Parcel 899145: 1,530 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/899145.md - Parcel 977028: 1,368 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/977028.md - Parcel 933360: 1,364 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/933360.md - Parcel 928163: 1,061 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/928163.md - Parcel 909670: 1,030 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/909670.md - Parcel 899651: 845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/899651.md - Parcel 888685: 664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/888685.md - Parcel 894494: 661 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/894494.md - Parcel 962901: 577 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/962901.md - Parcel 5097686: 462 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097686.md - Parcel 964890: 461 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/964890.md - Parcel 909689: 327 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/909689.md - Parcel 899633: 254 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/899633.md - Parcel 1004133: 243 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1004133.md - Parcel 5097715: 242 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5097715.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 18 Aug 2025, Mayo County Council 25342: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, onsite wastewater treatment system and all ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/25342/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Shrule Turlough SAC, site code 000525, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000525 - Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Shrule Turlough, site code 000525 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA121-151: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-151----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-151001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA121-152----. 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 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 Ballybackagh. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 5 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: 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, 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/ballybackagh.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballybackagh.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballybackagh.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballybackagh 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) - Cahermaculick: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cahermaculick.md - Cahernabrock: https://everytownland.com/mayo/cahernabrock.md - Kilmacduagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kilmacduagh.md - Pollnabunny: https://everytownland.com/mayo/pollnabunny.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/ballybackagh - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/ballybackagh