# Bengeery, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Crossmolina, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Binn Ghaoire.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 895,455 m² (89.55 ha, 221.27 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 58,794 m² (5.88 ha, 14.53 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Crossmolina, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/crossmolina.md
- Barony: Tirawley
- Electoral division: Crossmolina South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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.
- County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34344
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150395
- Centre: latitude 54.080872, longitude -9.327211 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bengeery, from 1,850 m² to 210,215 m² (21.02 ha, 51.95 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 980674: 210,215 m² (21.02 ha, 51.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/980674.md
- Parcel 1003667: 186,198 m² (18.62 ha, 46.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003667.md
- Parcel 962030: 130,772 m² (13.08 ha, 32.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/962030.md
- Parcel 986704: 116,878 m² (11.69 ha, 28.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986704.md
- Parcel 910330: 110,419 m² (11.04 ha, 27.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/910330.md
- Parcel 888307: 7,170 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/888307.md
- Parcel 948756: 4,100 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/948756.md
- Parcel 890335: 2,898 m² (0.29 ha, 0.72 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/890335.md
- Parcel 976759: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976759.md
- Parcel 941044: 1,850 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/941044.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 22 Jan 2019, Mayo County Council 1929: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/1929/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bengeery.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- MA038-059: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA038-059----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA038-060----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA038-217----. 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

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_324.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bengeery.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bengeery.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/bengeery.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bengeery with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo: https://everytownland.com/mayo.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballynalynagh: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballynalynagh.md
- Kildavaroge: https://everytownland.com/mayo/kildavaroge.md
- Mullenmore North: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mullenmore-north.md
- Mullenmore South: https://everytownland.com/mayo/mullenmore-south.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

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