Ballyglass

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 30 m² to 86,477 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• M4Rural Village Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 11 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 21 Dec 2020Conditional

  RETENTION OF THE BUILDING AS CONSTRUCTED, CHANGE OF USE OF THE BUILDING FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL, REMOVAL OF THE EXISTING CANOPY AND ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 201045

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Mountpleasant School Turlough 001472

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyglass.

Architectural heritage

• Ballyglass Bridge, bridge, 1840–1894 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch road bridge over lough, extant 1894. Part ivy-covered walls with repointed lichen-covered hammered limestone rounded coping to parapets. Single segmental arch with repointed cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Ballyglass Lough with unkempt banks to lough.

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 Ballyglass.

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

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

695,513 m² (69.55 ha, 171.87 acres)

Civil parish

Touaghty, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Burriscarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Burriscarra electoral division: 453 people in 166 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowhall, Carrowlisdooaun, Carrownahaltore, Carrowreaghmony, Deerpark, Kilgreana, Slishmeen

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.