Bengeery

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bengeery, from 1,850 m² to 210,215 m² (21.02 ha, 51.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Bengeery 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.

• 22 Jan 2019Conditional

  Restoration of Sand and Gravel Pit and associated site works using imported clean inert soil and stones within a sand and gravel pit of 1.092 hectares (plus the additional access roadway and remainder of site of 2.152 hectares - total site area is 3.244 Hectares). A five year planning permission is requested, and during this period 99,603 tonnes of inert soil and stones will be imported for the purposes of quarry restoration back to agricultural use

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 1929

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 Bengeery.

Recorded monuments

• MA038-059 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, located on a rise with very good views, including Lough Conn to E. Named ‘Rathnacourtia’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch map, this rath consists of a raised oval area (19m E-W; 25m N–S) defined on the N half by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.85m), and elsewhere by a dilapidated inward-facing scarp. Stones protruding from the inner face of the bank may be remnants of facing or a kerb. The level NW half of the interior is at a higher level than the SE half; this appears to be the result of past quarrying away of soil from the S half of the interior. The scarp defining the S half appears therefore not to be a primary enclosing element but rather to result from later disturbance, and it is possible that the original plan of the rath was more circular than its present oval shape. There is an enclosure (MA038-060----) c. 175m to S. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 July 2019

• MA038-060 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, located on a low N–S ridge, with a gradual fall of ground to the E. Good views generally, with Lough Conn visible to E. This rath is depicted as circular in plan, and is named ‘Rathmacormick’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It is evident now as a slightly raised, roughly semi-circular area (c. 14.5m N–S; c. 12m E–W) defined SSE–N by a low, sod-covered stone bank/wall (Wth 2m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m). Stones protruding in parts may be the remnants of stone facing or a kerb. Low remnants of a wall, on a roughly E–W axis, bisects the N half of the interior, which is largely obscured by blackthorn scrub. The E half of the rath has been greatly damaged/levelled in the past, and a concrete shed overlie the SE edge. An E–W wall lies immediately to S of the enclosure, separating it from a modern house and garden. A lay-by on a N–S road encroaches to within a few meters of the rath at W. There is another rath (MA038-059----) 175m to N. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 29 July 2019

• MA038-217 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, located in lowlying ground surrounded by gently undulating terrain and low drumlin hills. Ground rises gently immediately to S, and there is a small drumlin c. 60m to NE. The S and W sides of the field are bordered by farm roads, and there is an active gravel quarry on an adjacent property to SW. Slightly raised circular area or platform (24m E−W; 25.5m N−S) defined by a slight scarp (H 0.5m; Wth slope 4-5m). The platform is very low profile. The top/interior is flat, grassy and featureless. The enclosing scarp appears to have been partly levelled in the past and is poorly defined, with a broadly slumped slope that grades almost seamlessly in the surrounding field surface. The top of the scarp is distinguished by a slightly longer growth of grass. On the W arc the scarp slopes down into a roughly circular rush-grown hollow (diam. 10-11m; D 0.5m) which seems to be a natural feature –a number of similar hollows occur elsewhere in the field. The impression of a slight depression outside the scarp on the N and S arcs may indicate an enclosing fosse. Notified to NMS by Jean-Charles Caillère Attached images: MA038-217----_01.JPG Viewed from N Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 July 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Bengeery, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_324 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Bengeery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Bengeery · Binn Ghaoire

Area

895,455 m² (89.55 ha, 221.27 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Crossmolina South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

870 people lived in 349 households in the Crossmolina South electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynalynagh, Kildavaroge, Mullenmore North, Mullenmore South

Placenames

Bengeery 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.