Ballynastangford Upper
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile an Stancaird Uachtarach
- Area
- 40.9 ha
- 101 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,213 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynastangford Upper, from 560 m² to 84,169 m² (8.42 ha, 20.8 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 Ballynastangford Upper 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
9 Jul 2026N/a
Deirdre Waldron, Orlagh De Bhaldraithe and Eoin Waldron, Legal Personal Representatives of Phil Waldron Deceased, are applying for the retention of extensions, alterations and change of use of garage to living accommodation together with all ancillary site works and services to the dwelling house and garage, granted permission under P78/1009. All works having been carried out prior to 2015.
Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660560
14 Apr 2025Refused
construct new machinery storage shed/hay shed together with enclosed dungstead and all ancillary site development works
Permission · Mayo County Council, 25140
1 Oct 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCTION OF A WAREHOUSE, C.617M2, WITHIN AN EXISTING SERVICE YARD TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission · Mayo County Council, 211046
26 Apr 2021Conditional
CONSTRUCT EXTENSION TO REAR OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AS SHOWN ON PLANS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21400
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 Ballynastangford Upper.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynastangford Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynastangford Upper.
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 high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynastangford Upper.
- 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 Ballynastangford Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynastangford Upper · Baile an Stancaird Uachtarach
- Area
- 409,051 m² (40.91 ha, 101.08 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
- Birchfield, Cartron, Cloonboy, Drumagh, Garrywadreen, Parkatleva
- Placenames
- Ballynastangford Upper 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.