Ballynaraha

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynaraha, from 146 m² to 33,947 m² (3.39 ha, 8.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• P1Agriculture
  Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 63 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Oct 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration; Refurbish derelict farmhouse as per the vacant property Refurbishment Grant Croi Conaithe Towns Fund

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25422

• 19 Dec 2019Conditional

  DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FLAT ROOF TOILET BLOCK (54.2SQM), CONSTRUCTION OF NEW EXTENSION TO ACCOMMODATE THE RELOCATION OF EXISTING MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM AND A NEW MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATIONS, RESOURCE ROOM, STORAGE, SANITARY AND STAFF ACCOMMODATION (226.6SQM), CARRYING OUT OF MINOR INTERNAL ALTERATIONS AND CHANGES TO EXISTING MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATIONS TO ACCOMMODATE AN ADDITIONAL ASD CLASSROOM, SAFE SPACE AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS WC WITH ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, (WORKS WILL INCLUDE ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING FLOOR PLANS AND ELEVATIONS), CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING SITE SERVICES AND EXTENSION TO/UPGRADE OF EXISTING FOUL WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND CARRYING OUT OF ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19995

• 15 Nov 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSION ON THE EASTERN ELEVATION AND MINOR REVISIONS TO THE WESTERN AND SOUTHERN ELEVATIONS OF AN EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE AND TO CARRY OUT ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19921

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE GRANTED UNDER P11/167 & P11/1670 INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18935

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 Ballynaraha.

Recorded monuments

• MA039-052001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of hill, with a steep at SE–SW. There are excellent views in all directions. This rath consists of a raised subcircular area (diam. c. 36m NW–SE) enclosed by three earthen banks, with two intervening fosses. The inner bank (Wth 6.4m at SSW; int. H 1m at SSW. 0.5-0.6m at NNE; ext. H 2.1m at SSW, 2.6m at NNE) is low and rather eroded on its inner face, especially at NE. Stones evident on the inner slope in parts at N and W may be remnants of a kerb or facing. The steep external slope drops into the innermost fosse (Wth 4m at SSW, 3.3m at NNE). This fosse, the second or middle bank (Wth 4.3m at SSW, c. 5m at NNE; int. H 0.85m at SSW, c. 2m at NNE; ext. H 1m at SSW, 1.6m at NNE) and the second or outermost fosse (Wth 3m at SSW, 2m at W) are all clearly defined for the complete circuit. The third or outermost bank (Wth 2.5-3.5m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.6m at SSW) is lower and appears less substantial, and has been incorporated into or truncated by a later field fence around the N half of the rath. The original entrance appears to be at E, where there is a gap (Wth c. 2.5m) in the inner bank, and a corresponding gap (Wth c. 3.5m) in the second/middle bank. Both gaps are dilapidated and partly obscured by overgrowth. A low rise extending across the innermost fosse may be remnants of an original entrance causeway. This cannot be traced across the second fosse, and no gap is evident in the third/outermost bank as it has been incorporated into a field fence at this point. There are also breaks in the inner and middle banks at NW. There is a souterrain (MA039-052002-) in the W half of the interior. The perimeter is densely ringed with hawthorn, blackthorn, brambles and gorse, which also encroach on the interior. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 February 2020

• MA039-052002 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA039-052001). This souterrain is indicated as ‘Cave’ on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps; it is not now accessible. The location of the souterrain is evidenced by a linear depression (9.5m N–S; 6m E–W; D 0.5m) in the W half of the rath interior, close to the enclosing bank. At the S end of the depression, there is a more pronounced hollow infilled with stones, which according to local information was an access point to the souterrain. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 February 2020

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873; extant 1896. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch[?] with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

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 low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_375 (ZIP).

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 Ballynaraha with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballynaraha · Baile na Ráithe

Area

365,683 m² (36.57 ha, 90.36 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynahaglish, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Ballina Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballina Rural electoral division: 3,199 people in 1,095 households; 77% of households own their home; 38% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybeg, Ballynahaglish, Behybaun, Carrowntreila, Cloonturk, Rathnaconeen

Placenames

Ballynaraha 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.