# Billoos, Co. Mayo: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lackan, barony of Tirawley, Co. Mayo; in Irish Na Biliú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,504,217 m² (150.42 ha, 371.7 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 114,236 m² (11.42 ha, 28.23 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lackan, https://everytownland.com/mayo/parish/lackan.md - Barony: Tirawley - Electoral division: Ballycastle, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 585 people lived in 256 households in the Ballycastle electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Mayo, https://everytownland.com/mayo.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/34233 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 150396 - Centre: latitude 54.246618, longitude -9.315015 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Billoos, from 6,181 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres) to 540,688 m² (54.07 ha, 133.61 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 985661: 540,688 m² (54.07 ha, 133.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/985661.md - Parcel 1010717: 245,702 m² (24.57 ha, 60.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1010717.md - Parcel 1003842: 202,200 m² (20.22 ha, 49.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1003842.md - Parcel 933198: 157,369 m² (15.74 ha, 38.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/933198.md - Parcel 961884: 150,347 m² (15.03 ha, 37.15 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/961884.md - Parcel 976849: 78,125 m² (7.81 ha, 19.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/976849.md - Parcel 986851: 74,143 m² (7.41 ha, 18.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/986851.md - Parcel 899788: 38,551 m² (3.86 ha, 9.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/899788.md - Parcel 3711053: 6,509 m² (0.65 ha, 1.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3711053.md - Parcel 5626710: 6,181 m² (0.62 ha, 1.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5626710.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Billoos 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 14 Jun 2024, Mayo County Council 2460363: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. retain dwelling house and retain domestic shed as constructed and to upgrade septic tank system to proprietary effluent treatment system along with all ancillary works.. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460363/0 - 2 May 2018, Mayo County Council 18303: Conditional. Permission. RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE, RETAIN DOMESTIC SHED AND TO UPGRADE SEPTIC TANK SYSTEM TO PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/18303/0 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 Billoos. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - MA014-035: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CMA014-035----. 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. 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) - Bridge, 1840–1896, Regional interest, registry number 31301409, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=MA®no=31301409. Two-arch road bridge over river, extant 1896. Tuck pointed coursed or snecked limestone walls with tooled cut-limestone stringcourses supporting parapets having lichen-covered rock faced hammered limestone coping. Pair of segmental arches with tooled limestone ashlar voussoirs centred on drag edged tooled cut-limestone keystones. Sited spanning Carn River with overgrown banks to river. ## 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 Billoos, 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Billoos. - 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/billoos.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/mayo/billoos.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/mayo/billoos.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Billoos 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) - Aghaleague: https://everytownland.com/mayo/aghaleague.md - Ballybeg: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballybeg-150179.md - Ballymurphy: https://everytownland.com/mayo/ballymurphy.md - Barnhill Upper: https://everytownland.com/mayo/barnhill-upper.md - Barroe: https://everytownland.com/mayo/barroe-150349.md - Carn: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carn-150586.md - Carrowcuilleen: https://everytownland.com/mayo/carrowcuilleen.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/mayo/billoos - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/mayo/billoos