Ballyjennings

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyjennings, from 1,947 m² to 215,112 m² (21.51 ha, 53.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballyjennings 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyjennings in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballyjennings.

Recorded monuments

• MA118-034 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, sloping to N. Skirted on S by road. Irregular shaped area (37.5m N-S; 54.2m E-W), enclosed by earthen bank (H 0.7m), with external fosse (D 0.5m) NNW to SE. Bank straight sided on E, N and W; arched SW to SE. Overlain on W by stone field fence. Entrance (Wth 3.1m) with causeway on E. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 315. Date of upload: 19 November 2013

• MA118-070001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Raised, roughly circular area (35m N-S; 29m E-W), defined by earthen bank (H 0.9m). Stone field fence overlies S of site, running in E-W direction. Possible hut site (diam. 5.7m) in N. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 99. Date of upload: 3 December 2013

• MA118-070002 Hut site
  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.

• MA118-070003 Hut site
  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.

• MA118-071001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Situated in undulating pasture. Square-shaped area (56m E-W; 54m N-S), enclosed by ruined wall (Wth 2.4m; H 0.7m) of large boulders, on low earthen bank. Three hut sites in the E half; Hut site 1 (SL118-071003-): circular, (diam. 10.5m; H 0.6m) contains a souterrain (MA118-071002-). Hut site 2 (SL118-071004-): 8m S of 1, square in shape (6.3m N-S; 6.5m E-W). Hut site 3 (SL118-071005-): 18m S of 2, rectangular in shape (7.4m N-S; 6.2m E-W) ajoined to cashel wall by two low, linear stone walls. 5m NE of cashel is hut site (MA118-071006-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 247. Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-071002 Souterrain
  Description

  In E corner of cashel (MA118-071001-), beneath a hut site. The entrance gives access to a chamber (H 1.5m; Wth 1.5m); orientated E-W for 1.5m before turning sharply to run N-S for 4.2m. Constructed of c. nine courses of dry-stone, roofed by eleven large capstones. Infill inside the entrance. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 495. Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-071003 Hut site
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a cashel (SL118-071001-). This hut site encloses the opening to a souterrain (SL118-071002-). It was described in OPW Topographical Files (1983) as ‘a square enclosure (hut site) with an opening to a souterrain at its centre’ (SMR file). An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District recorded it as ‘Hut site 1: circular, (diam. 10.5m; H 0.6m) contains a souterrain’ (Lavelle, 1994). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-071004 Hut site
  Description

  In the E half of a cashel (SL118-071001-). This hut site was described in OPW Topographical Files (1983) as ‘a square area of grass-covered stones E of centre’ (SMR file). It was recorded by An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District as ‘Hut site 2: 8m S of 1 [SL118-071003-], square in shape (6.3m N-S; 6.5m E-W).’ (Lavelle, 1994). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-071005 Hut site
  Description

  In the SE quadrant of a cashel (SL118-071001-). This hut site was described in OPW Topographical Files (1983) as ‘a small, rectangular hut site just inside the wall on the SE.’ (SMR file). An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District recorded it as follows: ‘Hut site 3: 18m S of 2 [SL118-071004-], rectangular in shape (7.4m N-S; 6.2m E-W) ajoined to cashel wall by two low, linear stone walls.’ (Lavelle 1994). Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-071006 Hut site
  Description

  In level reclaimed pasture. 5m NE of, and possibly associated with, cashel (MA118-071001-). Ruined foundations of rectangular stone hut (5.2m N-S; 5.9m E-W; H 0.4m; wall T 0.6m). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 552. Date of upload: 12 December 2013

• MA118-151 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough grazing land. Roughly square-shaped area (29.5m N-S; 31m E-W), enclosed by the remains of a wall of large boulders standing on an earthen bank (Wth 1m-4m; H 0.4m). Wall most in evidence in S. Stone field fence incorporates E side. Interior is very uneven. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 248. Date of upload: 3 February 2014

Architectural heritage

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

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 moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_378 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballyjennings · Baile Sheoinín

Area

888,142 m² (88.81 ha, 219.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmainemore, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Kilmaine, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmaine electoral division: 1,014 people in 375 households; 82% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 17% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballytrasna, Blessingtown, Cahernacreevy, Cahernamallaght, Cregmore (Browne), Cregmore (Lynch)

Placenames

Ballyjennings 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.