Ballyknock
Ballyknock is a townland in the civil parish of Doonfeeny, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Baile an Chnoic.
- Area
- 289.5 ha
- 715 acres
- Land parcels
- 113
- registered freehold, median 10,021 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
113 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 28 m² to 594,585 m² (59.46 ha, 146.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknock 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
28 Oct 2025Conditional
change of house type from that previously granted under P24/87 for new front porch to existing semi habitable house, 2 no. additional windows to front elevation of existing semi habitable house, 1 no. additional window to side elevation of existing semi habitable house, new storey and a half extension to rear of existing semi habitable house, complete with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25449
5 Aug 2025N/a
new front porch to existing dwelling house, 2 no. additional windows to front elevation of existing dwelling house, 1 no. additional window to side elevation of existing dwelling house, new storey and a half extension to rear of existing dwelling house, complete with all ancillary site development works and inaccordance with previous planning ref P24/87
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25322
3 Apr 2024Conditional
Demolition of derelict dwelling house, erection of single storey dwelling house with attic accommodation, refurbishment of existing derelict agricultural shed, boundary fencing/treatment and septic system, retain/retention of on-site portable mobile home, complete with all ancillary site development works
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2487
6 Feb 2024N/a
demolition of semi habitable dwelling house, erection of single storey dwelling house with accommodation and roof balcony, refurbishment of existing tractor and tool shed, boundary fencing/treatment and septic system, complete with all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2422
17 Aug 2022N/a
DEMOLITION OF SEMI HABITABLE DWELLING HOUSE, ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTIC ACCOMMODATION AND ROOF BALCONY, REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING TRACTOR AND TOOL SHED, BOUNDARY FENCING/TREATMENT AND SEPTIC SYSTEM, COMPLETE WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 22695
18 May 2021Conditional
RETENTION OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER ON AMENDED SITE BOUNDARIES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 21499
25 Sept 2020Conditional
RETAIN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, PERMISSION TO UPGRADE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO INCLUDE NEW PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Retention · Mayo County Council, 20692
1 May 2020Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20292
16 Aug 2019Conditional
EXTEND AND RECONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND UPGRADE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO INCLUDE NEW PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA INCLUDING ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19632
15 May 2019N/a
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission · Mayo County Council, 19350
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Glenamoy Bog Complex SAC 000500
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Glenamoy Bog Complex 000500
Recorded monuments
- MA006-024 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011
- MA007-043 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
Description
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknock.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyknock, about 1 in 10 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyknock.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballyknock, Ballycastle5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyknock · Baile an Chnoic
- Area
- 2,895,197 m² (289.52 ha, 715.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doonfeeny, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Electoral division
- Ballycastle, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Aghoo, Ballyglass, Doonfeeny Upper, Glencullin, Glenulra, Killeena, Killerduff, Sralagagh East, Sralagagh West
- Placenames
- Ballyknock 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.