Ballynacarriga
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmaclasser, barony of Burrishoole, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile na Carraige
- Area
- 126.6 ha
- 313 acres
- Land parcels
- 48
- registered freehold, median 4,375 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
48 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacarriga, from 267 m² to 153,964 m² (15.4 ha, 38.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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 Ballynacarriga 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
7 Nov 2025Conditional
construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 25457
13 Feb 2025N/a
Section 5 Declaration: Dismantle and replace hay storage shed
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2547
20 Jan 2025Conditional
The development shall consist of; planning permission for the demolition of an existing side annex to the existing dwelling house upon its southern aspect, permission for a new extension to the existing dwelling house upon its southern aspect, permission to include all other ancillary site services and development works associated with this permission, all as per the application documentation.
Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560022
18 Sept 2023Conditional
full planning permission for the following: (1) Demolish existing detached dwelling house, (2) Construct replacement detached dwelling house, together with all associated site works at (Faiche An Teampaill) Rushbrook, Clogher, Westport, Co. Mayo.
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2360377
17 Oct 2022Conditional
RETAIN SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING AND FOR CONNECTION TO ALL EXISTING SITE SERVICES. PREVIOUSLY APPROVED PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. P16/125 REFERS
Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22900
11 Aug 2022Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 22679
22 Oct 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19836
21 Aug 2017Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17676
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 Ballynacarriga.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynacarriga.
Architectural heritage
- Farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally attached. Extensively renovated, 1998. Replacement pitched Turkish reed thatch roof with chicken wire-covered exposed steel lattice stretchers to raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered chimney stack supporting terracotta pot, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with shallow sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Set in landscaped grounds on a corner site with dry stone boundary wall to perimeter.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), 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 Ballynacarriga.
- 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 Ballynacarriga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynacarriga · Baile na Carraige
- Area
- 1,265,755 m² (126.58 ha, 312.77 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaclasser, and its townlands
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Electoral division
- Clogher, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clogher electoral division: 948 people in 330 households; 90% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyglass, Bullaunmeneen, Cogaula, Cornagashlaun, Drumneen, Rushbrook, Tawnyemon
- Placenames
- Ballynacarriga 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.