Ballyfarnagh

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfarnagh, from 64 m² to 275,054 m² (27.51 ha, 67.97 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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 Ballyfarnagh 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.

• 3 Dec 2025Conditional

  removal of existing agricultural shed and construction of a new calf shed, also extension to farm roadways

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25491

• 20 Dec 2023N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: resurface/overlay of silage slab/apron, widen resurface existing farm roadways, also to extend road in field

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23671

• 10 Mar 2022Conditional

  RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE WITH SHEDS ON SITE AS PER DOCUMENTS LODGED TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 22190

• 5 Aug 2020Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING BUILDINGS ON SITE, CONSTRUCT DWELLINGHOUSE, GARAGE AND FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND TO RELOCATE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL ENTRANCE TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20539

• 19 Oct 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18814

• 11 Sept 2017Conditional

  DEMOLISH THE EXISTING SHED AND MANURE PIT. ERECT A SIX BAY SLATTED SHED WITH CREEP AREAS, CATTLE HOLDING FACILITIES AND EFFLUENT STORAGE FACILITIES, CONSTRUCT A NEW SILAGE SLAB, CONCRETE APRONS AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17725

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA092-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low elevation in gently rolling terrain, with good views generally. Raised earthen platform (29.2m N–S; 28m E–W) defined by a scarp (H 1.7m at W, 1.5m at E). The scarp is well defined, with much angular stone protruding on the W arc. At the foot of the scarp the rath is encircled by a cropmark/ band (Wth c. 2m) of higher, greener grass, clearest on the NE arc, which may be evidence of an infilled external fosse. There is a sloping gap (W 1m) in the scarp at NE and a broad, slumped gap (Wth 3.2m) at SSW. In the interior, slight surface linear features on a NNE-SSW may be remnants of cultivation ridges. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 February 2022

• MA092-092 Mill - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on a N-flowing stream, c. 150m S of Ballyhowley Castle, a tower house (MA092-039001-). A mill is listed in the Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo (O'Sullivan, W. 1958, 105): '…the castle and town of Bellaghowly, with 3qrs and 3 cartons of land and a cornmill thereunto adjoining…'. The mill is depicted on the 1838 OS 6-inch map as an E-W rectangular building, named ‘Corn Mill’, which straddles the N-flowing stream. The remains consist of the W gable (6.5m N–S; T 0.65m; H c. 5.5m), with slight returns of the N and S walls, located 2m W of the stream. The walls are constructed of mortared stone. There is a square window just below the apex of the gable, at second story/attic level. The proximity of the gable to the stream indicates that the building did straddle the stream. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 24 May 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballyfarnagh.

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

Name

Ballyfarnagh · Bealach Fearna

Area

1,451,742 m² (145.17 ha, 358.73 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Ballyhowly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyhowly electoral division: 479 people in 182 households; 86% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhowly, Dalteen, Esker, Killeen, Knockbaun, Knockroe, Mace Middle, Mace Upper, Magheraboy, Rockfield

Placenames

Ballyfarnagh 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.