Ballycong

94 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycong, from 129 m² to 240,942 m² (24.09 ha, 59.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycong 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.

• 27 Sept 2026N/a

  Refurbish and extend existing agricultural shed to form new Independent Living unit. Install new on site waste water treatment system to EPA 2021 standards. Carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660756

• 19 Nov 2025Conditional

  Consist of the Construction of 1 No. Dwelling House & Wastewater Treatment System with Soil Polishing Filter. Including all other ancillary site work and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560829

• 1 Nov 2025Conditional

  1): Retain 1st floor extension to existing dwellinghouse 2): Retain as constructed domestic garage 3): Revise site boundaries

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560767

• 3 Apr 2025Conditional

  (1) Construction of a new detached dwelling house, and(2)proposed effluent treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works at, Ballycong, Attymass , Ballina, Co.Mayo.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560193

• 30 Jan 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: Refurbish and extend farm machinery shed

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2526

• 13 Mar 2023Conditional

  For the construction of a dwellinghouse, treatment plant and for all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360056

• 6 Mar 2023Conditional

  retain a type 4 dry storage agricultural building, floor area 153.46m2 and ancillary site works

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 23117

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 Ballycong.

Recorded monuments

• MA039-109 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

• Farm house, 1840–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse, extant 1896. Reroofed, 2005. Pitched roof with replacement reed or straw thatch, mesh-covered exposed hazel or sally lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered battered chimney stack, and concrete coping to gables on "Hollow" kneelers. Limewashed lime rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing timber panelled doors. Set perpendicular to road.

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 Ballycong, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballycong · Béal Átha Conga

Area

2,344,699 m² (234.47 ha, 579.39 acres)

Civil parish

Attymass, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Attymass West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

273 people lived in 108 households in the Attymass West electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardrass, Bunnafinglas, Carrowkeribly, Derryvicneill, Drumscoba, Mullaghawny, Treanoughter

Placenames

Ballycong 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.