Ballynabrehon North
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile na mBreithiún Thuaidh
- Area
- 119.4 ha
- 295 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 31,087 m² (3.11 ha, 7.68 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynabrehon North, from 977 m² to 168,730 m² (16.87 ha, 41.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynabrehon North 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
20 Feb 2026Conditional
Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house, garage and foul effluent treatment system all as per drawing documentation submitted together with all ancillary site works and services.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660132
18 Apr 2024Conditional
construction of a new residential dwelling house with attached garage, and effluent treatment system together with all ancillary site works and services
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24119
15 Jul 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, NEW ENTRANCE, NEW WASTE WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, CONNECTIONS TO THE SITE SERVICES, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND LANDSCAPING
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19547
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynabrehon North.
Recorded monuments
- MA091-027 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, located on a low ridge. There is a farmyard immediately to S. A broadly oval embanked enclosure (diam. 20-25m) is shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; it is not shown on later map editions. There is no visible trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynabrehon North.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynabrehon North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynabrehon North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynabrehon North · Baile na mBreithiún Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,193,688 m² (119.37 ha, 294.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Kilcolman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcolman electoral division: 455 people in 159 households; 94% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynabrehon South, Drumneen, Eskerlevally, Kilcolman, Mace Upper, Murneen South
- Placenames
- Ballynabrehon North 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.