# Ballykine Lower, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Cong, barony of Kilmaine, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile Uí Chadhain Íochtarach.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,517,003 m² (251.7 ha, 621.96 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Cong, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/cong.md
- Barony: Kilmaine
- Electoral division: Cong, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 994 people lived in 325 households in the Cong electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 10% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34836
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150238
- Centre: latitude 53.555958, longitude -9.338135 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

0 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykine Lower; 13 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:


## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykine Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC, site code 001774, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001774
- Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA, site code 004062, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004062
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex, site code 001774

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA120-033001: Castle - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-033001-. Built on terrace on E slope of rocky ridge, in dense forestry. House with later additions of tower house and defensive features. Entrance to ground-floor through later doorway, placed directly in front of original doorway; contains two rooms (4.2m x 5.2m; 2.1m x 5.2m) with N room once covered by vault supported by dividing wall. Blocked up entrances on either end of N room. Mural stairs in later W wall leads to 1st-floor and wall-walk. Main chamber lighted by large arched windows in each gable (N and S), with rectangular windows on other walls. Three buttresess connected by two wicker-centered arches, carrying wall-walk and parapet, built against external face of E wall. Tower of three storeys with wall-walk and parapet, a later addition to S gable. Entrance to 1st-floor through doorway in 1st-floor of house. Ground-floor used as basement. 2nd-floor walls corbelled internally and externally to accomodate mural stairs to wall-walk. 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. 705. Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-033002: Souterrain, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-033002-. In woodland, located on top of a rocky ridge. Knox (1904, 100) records this souterrain as follows: ‘In the flat above the castle [MA120-033001-] a couple of stones have fallen into the cave of an old fort [MA120-033003-] which occupied the end of the ridge. This would be the Cashel or Caher of the O’Caidhins, who have left their name in Ballykine, Baile O’Caidhin.' Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-033003: Ringfort - cashel, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-033003-. On rocky ridge containing Ballykine house and tower house (MA120-033001-). Knox (1904, 100) refers to an old stone fort of the O'Caidhin Clan. No visible surface trace. A souterrain (MA120-033002-), marked 'Cave' on the 1838 and 1929 OS 6-inch maps, may mark the site of the cashel. 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. 249. Date of upload: 15 October 2014
- MA120-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA120-034----. In wood, atop hill, with commanding view to W. Raised, circular area (50m N-S; 50m E-W), enclosed by low earthen bank (H 0.5m), with external fosse (D 0.4m). Disturbed on the W. Interior heavily overgrown. 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. 100. Date of upload: 15 October 2014

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- Ballykine House, worker's house, 1860–1865, Regional interest, registry number 31312014, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA&regno=31312014. Detached three-bay single-storey game keeper's house with half-dormer attic, built 1862; extant 1894, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Renovated, ----, to accommodate continued alternative use. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched (gabled) slate roof with trefoil-perforated crested terracotta ridge tiles centred on tuck pointed snecked limestone chimney stack on chamfered base having cut-limestone capping supporting crested terracotta pots, decorative timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked limestone walls on lichen-covered cut-limestone chamfered plinth with drag edged dragged cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed central door opening with cut-limestone threshold, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone lintel framing timber panelled door. Square-headed flanking window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement uPVC casement windows replacing two-over-two timber sash windows. Set back from road in landscaped grounds.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballykine Lower, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as 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 Ballykine Lower.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballykine-lower.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballykine-lower.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballykine-lower.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballykine Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballykine Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballykine-upper.md
- Dringeen Oughter: https://everytownland.com/mayo/dringeen-oughter.md
- Gorteenroe: https://everytownland.com/mayo/gorteenroe.md
- Knockbeg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/knockbeg.md
- Rosshill (Co. Galway): https://everytownland.com/galway/rosshill.md

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.

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Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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