Ballymackeehola

107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackeehola, from 153 m² to 331,432 m² (33.14 ha, 81.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymackeehola 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.

• 31 Aug 2026N/a

  The installation of a linear array of 80 no. (2no. rows x 30no. & 2no. rows x 10no. panels) x 625w ground mounted bifacial solar photovoltaic (PV) panels with existing shed for battery storage area. Including all other ancillary site work and services (35m trench for cabling & electric infrastructure)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660693

• 26 Sept 2025Conditional

  We, Neil & Reynagh Murphy, are applying to Mayo County Council for Retention Planning Permission. The application will consist of planning permission to (1) Retain existing dwelling house, Domestic Garage and percolation area where same differs as that granted under P20104.

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2560681

• 15 Jan 2025Conditional

  Full planning permission for the following: (1) Proposed Change of house type from previous planning PL Ref23/60503, together with all associated site works at Ballymackeehola, Crossmolina, Co. Mayo.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560018

• 28 Nov 2023Conditional

  full planning permission for the following: (1) Proposed Change of house type from previous planning PL Ref 23/60026 ,together with all associated site works at Ballymackeehola, Crossmolina, Co. Mayo.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360503

• 7 Feb 2023Conditional

  Full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached two-story dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360026

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT A DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS FOR SAME, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE OFF THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CONNECT ALL SERVICES, CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211374

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  DEMOLISH EXISTING DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, DEMOLISH EXISTING SHED, CONSTRUCT REPLACEMENT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT NEW DOMESTIC GARAGE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21372

• 17 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED WORK, CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CONNTECT TO ALL SERVICES AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20104

• 30 May 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, NEW DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, NEW WASTE TREATMENT SYSTEM, UPGRADE THE EXISTING ACCESS ROAD AND SITE ENTRANCE AND CONNECT TO ALL SERVICES AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS ON SITE

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19412

• 12 Nov 2018Refused

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE, CONSTRUCT DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, CONSTRUCT AN EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM PLUS ALL ASSOCIATED WORK, CONSTRUCT A NEW DOMESTIC ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC ROAD AND CARRY OUT ALL REQUIRED ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18893

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 Ballymackeehola.

Recorded monuments

• MA021-075 Ringfort - rath
  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.

• MA021-080 Ringfort - rath
  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.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymackeehola National School, school, 1880–1896 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey national school, dated 18--; extant 1896. In use, 1962. Closed, 1969. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having lichen-covered chamfered capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and no rainwater good surviving on exposed timber rafters retaining cast-iron downpipes. Fine roughcast walls with rusticated cut-limestone date stone ("18--"). Square-headed window openings with cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing timber casement windows having square glazing bars. Square-headed door opening with overgrown threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled door with overlight now boarded-up. Set back from line of road in unkempt grounds.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballymackeehola, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymackeehola.

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.

No address of the register names Ballymackeehola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballymackeehola · Baile Mhic Citheola

Area

5,430,960 m² (543.1 ha, 1,342.02 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Rathoma, the unit of the census

Census 2022

248 people lived in 86 households in the Rathoma electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Balloughadalla, Ellaghs, Greenwoodpark, Knockaskeehaun, Lauvlyer, Raheens, Rathoma, Woodville

Placenames

Ballymackeehola 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.