Ballybeg

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 842 m² to 71,779 m² (7.18 ha, 17.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballybeg 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballybeg in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballybeg.

Recorded monuments

• MA103-020 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on an undulating ridge with good views. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; by the time of the 1916 edition it had been truncated at SW and NW by linear field boundaries. A broad rise, almost like a small hillock, (diam. 25-30), is evident at the location. A farm road flanked by dry stone walls skirts the W side of the rise. A pit (c. 8m across; D 1.5m) is cut into the top of the rise. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022

• MA103-021 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved pasture, overlooked by higher ground to N. A circular embanked enclosure (diam. 25-30m) is shown on 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is depicted as a subrectangular enclosure (22m N−S; 22m E−W) with an external fosse on the 25-inch plan; it is not shown on the 1916 OS 6-inch map. No visible trace at ground level. Another enclosure (MA103-020----) is 130m to NW, and there is an ogham stone (MA013-022----) 215m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 October 2022

• MA103-022 Ogham stone
  Description

  In pasture, located on a broad level terrace on the SSW-facing slope of a ridge. The terrace is backed by gently rising ground which blocks views NNW−E. To S of the stone, the ridge slope falls steeply, giving extensive views SE−W across a broad valley, surrounded by rolling grassland. On the far side of the valley to SSW, the horizon is defined by a high ridge, Kiltullagh Hill, on the summit of which a standing stone (RO032-001001-) is visible, and to E of that a church (RO032-002001-). Both the ogham stone and the standing stone are located close to the Mayo/Roscommon border which follows a roughly NE−SW zig-zag path through the landscape. Upright pillar-like block of stone (H 2.2m), roughly rectangular in profile, tapering from a broad squarish base (0.57m N−S; 0.5m E−W) to a narrow rectangular top (0.37 N−S; 0.22 E−W), with an ogham inscription scored across the SE angle. The tapering of the stone is more pronounced along the E−W axis, and is more marked above a slight natural kink or shoulder, which occurs c. 0.65m below the top of the stone. Although the stone stands more or less vertical, the kink/shoulder is biased to S, and produces the impression of a gentle tilt in that direction. The top surface of the stone rises slightly to S, and appears to have a naturally ridged or irregular surface, but the stone is too high for this to be examined closely. The ogham inscription is clearly visible between c. 0.65m to c. 1.5m above the ground level, cut across the sharply right-angled SE corner. The scores are large, broad and regularly spaced. However, sections of the inscription appear to have been damaged by flaking or abrasion of the stone surface, and in parts the sharpness of the corner has been somewhat rounded by use of the stone as a scratching post by farm stock. The uppermost 0.65m portion of the SE angle has a rough and irregular, lichen-covered surface, and a poorly defined angle: it is unclear if this surface has been damaged, or perhaps was never inscribed. A shallow depression, eroded by farm stock encircles the base of the stone. Lichen grows on the stone surface in parts, but the inscription is largely lichen-free. It was read by Macalister (1945, 8-9, no.6) as: QASIGN[I] MAQ[I]. An account of the stone in 1900 (JRSAI 30, 164, ‘Miscellanea –The Tullaghane ogham stone, Co. Mayo’) records that ‘the stone had fallen from its erect position, and had lain on the ground until it was re-erected in the year 1861’, and ‘a large chip seems to have been knocked off the incised angle near the bottom…’. (Jane O’Shaughnessy, NMS, field report) Compiled by: Nora White Date of upload: 11 October 2017

Architectural heritage

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

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

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballybeg · An Baile Beag

Area

476,596 m² (47.66 ha, 117.77 acres)

Civil parish

Annagh, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Course, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Course electoral division: 455 people in 166 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corrasluastia (Co. Roscommon), Grange (Co. Roscommon), Lisnagroob (Co. Roscommon), Tullaghaun

Placenames

Ballybeg 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.