Ballynacloy

47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacloy, from 8 m² to 63,644 m² (6.36 ha, 15.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynacloy 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.

• 20 Dec 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: temporary use of an additional mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry. It will be used for processing quarried materials during an interim period while permission is sought for the permanent relocation of the fixed plant within the quarry void

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24542

• 26 Sept 2024N/a

  Section 5: The proposed development involves the temporary use of a mobile crushing and screening plant within the quarry void at Carrowscoltia Quarry, Aghamore. This plant will replace the existing fixed crushing plant, which is located at original ground level and has been a source of noise and dust complaints from nearby residents.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24403

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 Ballynacloy.

Recorded monuments

• MA082-011 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In undulating pasture, located at the break of slope on the SW side of a knoll, with extensive views in all directions. Named ‘Calragh Fort’ on the 1838 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A circular area (diam. c. 42m NE–SW) enclosed by a ruined drystone wall. The wall survives as a low, sod-covered stony rise (W c. 3m; H 0.5m) with remnants of stone facing, one course high, visible intermittently on the external face around the circuit and at NE on the internal face. Stone tumble from the wall is evident on the steep W slope of the knoll. A later field wall overlies the cashel wall on the S arc. Set c. 3m inside the cashel wall, a low, poorly defined scarp (H c. 0.5m), stony in parts, can be traced in a semi-circular curve SE−W. It is not clear if this represents remnants of an inner enclosing element or merely the natural contours of the knoll on which the cashel is sited. The level interior surface is uneven and strewn with stones through-out. In the SW quadrant, a roughly square area (6.5m N–S; c. 8m E-W) is distinguished by a greater concentration of stones, mostly small to medium-sized, barely protruding from ground, some clearly set upright. This may be a children’s burial ground (MA082-011001-). From the W side of this feature a linear depression (Wth 1.3m; D 0.45m), stony in parts, extends for 12m to S to the cashel wall; it is engulfed in overgrowth and difficult to examine. Slightly NW of centre, a wall-like setting (Wth c. 0.8m; H 0.3m) of stones describes an arc (diam. c. 8m) curving NNW–SE. A stony linear feature/possible wall (Wth 0.6m; H 0.2m) extends from the cashel wall at N for 9m to S through the interior. There is no clearly defined entrance to the cashel but, given the contours of the surrounding terrain, it is most likely to have been on the E or SE side. Dense blackthorn scrub obscures much of the interior, impeding examination; hawthorn trees grow around the perimeter. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 December 2021

• MA082-011001 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a cashel (MA082-011----). The traditional name of the cashel, ‘Caltragh Fort,’ suggests that the cashel was used as a burial ground. The interior is strewn with stone through-out and is covered in dense overgrowth, making examination difficult. However, in the SW quadrant, there is a roughly square area (6.5m N–S; c. 8m E-W) distinguished by a greater concentration of stones, mostly small to medium-sized, barely protruding from ground, with some clearly set upright, possibly marking graves. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 December 2021

• MA082-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a natural undulation on a SW-facing slope, with a steep fall of ground to to SW–NW, and a more gradually slope to S–SW. Occupies much of the space within the E half of a modern rectangular walled field. The townland boundary coincides with the E arc of the rath. Slightly raised circular area (46.4m N–S; 47.3m E–W) defined by an earthen bank, and enclosed by a fosse with an external bank. The inner bank (Wth c. 6m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 1.7m, at N) is most substantial on the E half. Stone protruding in parts may be the remnants of stone facing. At S–NW it is very low internally but retains a pronounced external slope (H 1.5m at S, 2m at W). The fosse (Wth 3m) is well defined; it is truncated at NE by a quarry pit. The external bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 1.5m at N, 0.1m at S; ext. H 0.65m at N, 0.9m at S) is evident as sod-covered rise, which at S has a broad external slump incorporating boulders at top. It is truncated at NE and at NE-SE by two field walls that form the NE corner of the modern field. There is a low section of the inner bank at NE (Wth 2.3m) and another at SE (Wth 1.8m) but the location of the original entrance is unclear. A poorly defined, slightly raised area abuts the inner face of the bank at NE, with a heap of loose stone, probably field clearance at its S edge. The level centre of the interior is defined in a shallow arc on its SE–W side by a broad, stony slope, with ground levelling out again at a lower level (drop in height 1-1.5m) in the S-SW quadrant. The rath is ringed with hawthorn, blackthorn and brambles; blackthorn scrub is encroaching on the interior at S and clumps of brambles cover the central and E parts of the interior. A remnant of a field fence, on a WNW–ESE axis abuts the rath at W. A small quarry pit has been dug into the ridge slope immediately to SW of the rath. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 December 2021

• MA082-050 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a hill with good views in all directions. Circular platform (15.5m N–S; 13.5m E–W) defined by a sod-covered stone bank (Wth 0.6m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.4m), little more than a narrow, low jumble of stones. There are eroded areas/breaks (Wth 0.5-1m) in the wall at NW, NNE and SE, but no clearly defined entrance. The function of this feature is unclear; it may be the remnants of a house. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 December 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynacloy.

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

About 1 in 5 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.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ballynacloy · Baile na Cloiche

Area

886,514 m² (88.65 ha, 219.06 acres)

Civil parish

Aghamore, and its townlands

Barony

Costello

Electoral division

Aghamore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Aghamore electoral division: 650 people in 241 households; 82% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghamore, Ballyhine, Carrowbaun, Carrowscoltia, Rath, Scregg

Placenames

Ballynacloy 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.