Ballyclogher
Townland in the civil parish of Balla, barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile an Chlochair
- Area
- 328.4 ha
- 812 acres
- Land parcels
- 100
- registered freehold, median 23,077 m² (2.31 ha, 5.7 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
100 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyclogher, from 24 m² to 118,328 m² (11.83 ha, 29.24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyclogher 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
9 Aug 2024Conditional
construction of an agricultural machinery shed with all ancillary site works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24336
30 Mar 2023N/a
Part demolition of existing including removal of roof, erection of new rear extension and erection of new first floor
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360077
22 Mar 2023N/a
Part demolition of existing including removal of roof, erection of new rear extension and erection of new first floor
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2360067
15 Mar 2023Conditional
The amalgamation of the PBKS & Derryvoghys GWS's. Consisting of the installation of a 1.7km long, 90mm outside diameter interconnecting pipeline, replacement of circa 0.6km of an existing 3" diameter pipeline with a new 90mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 1.6km of an existing 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 3.7km of an exisitng 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline. Constructon of a new booster station alongside the proposed interconnecting pipeline. Decommissioning of the replaced section of pipeline within DMA001, 004 & 005 of the Derryvoghy GWS, decommissioning of the existing Derryvoghy source and pumping station, and all associated site development works above and below ground including installation of all necessary valves and chambers. (A NIS will be submitted with the application)
Permission · Mayo County Council, 23132
4 Mar 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF AS-BUILT AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED AND COMPLETE AS PROPOSED WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21182
25 Aug 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT SLATTED HOUSE, FODDER SHED AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 20595
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyclogher.
Recorded monuments
- MA080-042 Ritual site - holy well
Description
Located in reclaimed pasture, on lowlying ground at the base of a SW-facing slope. The spring feeds a stream that flows SW into Lough Aveely. This well is named ‘Tobercummeen’ on the 1838 and 1919 OS 6-inch maps. It has been capped with concrete and fenced off. A modern pump house stands adjacent to it. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 December 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyclogher.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyclogher.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyclogher with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyclogher · Baile an Chlochair
- Area
- 3,284,076 m² (328.41 ha, 811.51 acres)
- Civil parish
- Balla, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Balla, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Balla electoral division: 1,661 people in 631 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinagran, Ballymacloughlin, Carrownahaun, Craggagh, Lakill, Pollavaddy
- Placenames
- Ballyclogher 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.