Ballyrourke

93 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrourke, from 26 m² to 63,122 m² (6.31 ha, 15.6 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.

• M4Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Built up area)
  Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028, Mayo · 95 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 18 Jul 2024Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage and connection to public sewerage along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24283

• 15 Mar 2023Conditional

  The amalgamation of the PBKS & Derryvoghys GWS's. Consisting of the installation of a 1.7km long, 90mm outside diameter interconnecting pipeline, replacement of circa 0.6km of an existing 3" diameter pipeline with a new 90mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 1.6km of an existing 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline, replacement of circa 3.7km of an exisitng 2" diameter pipeline with a new 63mm OD section of pipeline. Constructon of a new booster station alongside the proposed interconnecting pipeline. Decommissioning of the replaced section of pipeline within DMA001, 004 & 005 of the Derryvoghy GWS, decommissioning of the existing Derryvoghy source and pumping station, and all associated site development works above and below ground including installation of all necessary valves and chambers. (A NIS will be submitted with the application)

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23132

• 5 Nov 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCT EXTENSIONS TO SIDE AND REAR OF DWELLING HOUSE, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 211168

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 Ballyrourke.

Recorded monuments

• MA079-102002 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA090-147 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 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 Ballyrourke.

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

Name

Ballyrourke · Baile Uí Ruairc

Area

507,850 m² (50.79 ha, 125.49 acres)

Civil parish

Balla, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Balla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Balla electoral division: 1,661 people in 631 households; 81% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balla, Ballinagran, Ballymacloughlin, Dooros, Legaun, Moat

Placenames

Ballyrourke 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.