Ballycastle

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycastle, from 13 m² to 121,837 m² (12.18 ha, 30.11 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 41 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• M4Rural Settlements Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 35 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Dec 2025Conditional

  retain dwelling house and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 25501

• 25 Sept 2025Conditional

  retain dwelling house and upgrade septic tank to proprietary effluent treatment system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25408

• 16 Aug 2024Conditional

  The development will consist of the change of use of school building to use as an art workshop space and one bedroom apartment. The development will also consist of the construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the building (37.7m²) together with ancillary site development works.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2460510

• 25 Jun 2024Conditional

  Permission to erect a three-bedroom single storey dwelling along with a storage shed, a 4kw photovoltaic solar array and a sewage treatment system together with a vehicle entrance and all ancillary site works and services..

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2460391

• 2 Mar 2022Conditional

  RETENTION OF DWELLING HOUSE, INCLUDING PITCHED ROOF OVER ORIGINAL PITCHED AND FLAT ROOF TO REAR OF DWELLING AND CHANGE USE OF SHOP AREA TO LIVING ACCOMMODATION

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22153

• 29 Oct 2020Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND PERMISSION FOR THE REVISION OF SITE BOUNDARIES ATTACHED TO THE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED P99/1428

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 20805

• 2 Oct 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DERELICT STRUCTURES, CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19773

• 20 Mar 2019Refused

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DERELICT STRUCTURES, CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. TWO STOREY DWELLING HOUSES, CONNECTION TO PUBLIC UTILITIES AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19191

• 14 May 2018Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PREMISES CONSISTING OF DWELLING HOUSE AND BUTCHER SHOP AND ERECT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18346

• 3 Apr 2017Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING 2 STOREY BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF 2 STOREY ART GALLERY, WORKSHOP AND STUDIO SPACE INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND CONNECTION TO PUBLIC UTILITIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17232

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 Ballycastle.

Recorded monuments

• MA007-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1797–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay single-storey house, extant 1838, on a rectangular plan. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stack having concrete capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipe. Limewashed rendered walls. Square-headed central door opening with concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Street fronted with tarmacadam footpath to front.

• Saint John's Church (Doonfeeny), church/chapel, 1825–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1826-7, on a rectangular plan with single-bay three-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Pitched slate roof with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping to gables including drag edged tooled cut-limestone coping to gable (east) with repointed drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chimney stack to apex having stringcourse below capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on drag edged tooled cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron "Tulip" hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed walls with tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; part repointed walls (tower) with dragged cut-limestone chamfered stringcourses including dragged cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse (bell stage) supporting tooled cut-limestone obelisk pinnacles framing Irish battlemented parapet having tooled cut-limestone coping. Pointed-arch window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, timber Y-mullions, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron square glazing bars. "Rose Window" (east) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting having cast-iron glazing bars. Lancet window opening (tower) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fitting having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Roundels (second stage) with drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing rendered infill. Lancet openings (bell stage) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); full-height interior with central aisle between timber pews, and carpeted stepped dais to chancel (east) with foliate-detailed cast-iron balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on trefoil-perforated timber altar below trefoil-perforated timber reredos. Set in landscaped grounds with repointed diagonal piers to perimeter having stringcourses below capping supporting wrought iron double gates.

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1925–1935 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1930-3; built 1931-3; dedicated 1933, on a cruciform plan comprising six-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (three-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height apse to crossing (south) on a half-octagonal plan. Renovated, 1970, with sanctuary reordered. Pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan centred on half-octagonal slate roof (south) with perforated crested clay ridge tiles, concrete coping to gables on "Cavetto" kneelers with "Fleur-de-Lys"-detailed wrought iron Cross finials to apexes including concrete coping to gable to entrance (north) front with rendered, ruled and lined buttressed gabled bellcote to apex framing embossed cast-bronze bell (1932), and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cavetto" consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rendered stepped buttresses having "slated" coping including rendered clasping stepped buttresses to corners to entrance (north) front having "slated" coping supporting octagonal pinnacles. Lancet window openings with concrete sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Windows" to transepts with concrete sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet window openings to apse (south) with concrete sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed door opening to entrance (north) front in pointed-arch recess with step threshold, and rendered block-and-start surround having stepped reveals with hood moulding over on label stops framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors. Lancet flanking window openings with concrete sills, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Lancet "Trinity Window" to gable with concrete sill, and rendered block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings over on label stops framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels. Interior including vestibule (north); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior open into roof with timber panelled choir gallery (north) supporting timber pipe organ below stained glass "Trinity Window" (2000), tiled central aisle between trefoil-detailed timber pews, Gothic-style timber memorial stations (undated) between stained glass windows (2000), pointed-arch arcades to transepts on Corinthian pillars with hood mouldings over on beaded "Cavetto" label stops, exposed Hammerbeam timber roof construction on beaded "Bowtell" corbels with wind braced ceiling in carved timber frame on carved timber cornice on perforated frieze, and pointed-arch chancel arch framing carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (south) reordered, 1970, with pair of stained glass windows (2000) centred on quatrefoil-detailed cut-veined white Carrera marble Gothic-style high altar (1933). Set in landscaped grounds with quatrefoil-detailed rendered piers to perimeter having gabled capping.

• Saint Brigid's Catholic Church, presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1910–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey parochial house, built 1911; extant 1917, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (west). Refenestrated, ----. Hipped slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on hipped slate roof (west) with terracotta ridge tiles, paired rendered central chimney stacks on rendered bases having "Cavetto"-detailed corbelled stepped cornices below capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Rendered, ruled and lined walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered quoins to corners. Camber-headed central door opening with drag edged tooled cut-limestone step threshold, timber mullions on drag edged tooled cut-limestone padstones supporting timber transom, and concealed dressings having bull nose-detailed reveals framing timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below overlight. Square-headed window opening (first floor) with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, Y-mullion, and concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in landscaped grounds with rendered panelled chamfered piers to perimeter having "Cavetto"-detailed curvilinear gabled capping.

• Saint Brigid's National School, school, 1935–1940 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay double-height girls' national school, built 1938; dated 1938, on a symmetrical plan with two- or three-bay single-storey flat-roofed "pavilions" centred on three-bay single-storey flat-roofed breakfront. Closed, 1992. Reroofed, ----. Now disused. Replacement hipped artificial slate roof with concrete ridge tiles, slightly sproketed or swept eaves, and uPVC rainwater goods on slightly overhanging box eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast walls on rendered plinth. Square-headed central door opening below drag edged rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("1938") with rendered surround having stepped reveals framing glazed timber panelled door. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows having horizontal glazing bars with three-over-three timber sash windows to rear (south) elevation having horizontal glazing bars. Set in unkempt grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having chamfered capping.

• Polke's, hotel, 1880–1885 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced four-bay two-storey commercial hotel, rebuilt 1884, on a rectangular plan with shopfront to right ground floor. Reroofed, ----. Replacement pitched artificial slate roof with moss-covered clay ridge tiles terminating in cement rendered chimney stacks having capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipe. Rendered wall (ground floor) bellcast over rendered plinth; roughcast surface finish (first floor) with rusticated rendered piers to ends supporting rendered band to eaves. Square-headed window openings with benchmark-inscribed drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash windows. Shopfront to right ground floor on a symmetrical plan. Street fronted with concrete footpath to front.

• Water pump, 1899–1917 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cast-iron water hydrant, extant 1917. Now disused. Street fronted on tarmacadam footpath.

• Ballycastle National School, school, 1890–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached eight-bay single-storey boys' national school, built 1892, on a symmetrical plan. Closed, 1970. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window openings centred on rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("189-") with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed flanking door openings with overgrown thresholds, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds with piers to perimeter having lichen-covered truncated pyramidal capping supporting flat iron gate.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycastle, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ballycastle · Baile an Chaisil

Area

1,154,055 m² (115.41 ha, 285.17 acres)

Civil parish

Doonfeeny, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballycastle, the unit of the census

Census 2022

585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinglen, Ballyglass, Carrowkibbock Upper, Carrownisky, Killeena, Killerduff, Lisbrin

Placenames

Ballycastle 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.