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Binghamstown

Binghamstown is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmore, barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is An Geata Mór.

Area
289.3 ha
715 acres
Land parcels
135
registered freehold, median 3,363 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres)
Zoning
M4
Rural Village Consolidation Zoning
Planning
10
applications since 2010

Land parcels

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann

BinghamstownCross (Wallace) EastRinanaghCarn (Fowler)Emlybeg (Kyle)Cross (Wallace) WestEmlybeg NorthArdmoreBallymacsherronEmlybeg South
1,000 m
170 parcels are drawn. Click one to see it.© Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0

135 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Binghamstown, from 44 m² to 364,730 m² (36.47 ha, 90.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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.

Zoning

Development plans, national zoning

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

Planning applications

Sites that touch the townland, newest first

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

Recorded monuments

Architectural heritage

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

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
At the centre of the townland of Binghamstown, about 1 in 20 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
No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Binghamstown.
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.

Homes sold

Property Price Register

The townland

Name
Binghamstown · An Geata Mór
Area
2,893,290 m² (289.33 ha, 714.95 acres)
Civil parish
Kilmore, and its townlands
Barony
Erris
Electoral division
An Geata Mór Thuaidh, the unit of the census
Census 2022
1,014 people lived in 386 households in the An Geata M�r Thuaidh electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 14% were holiday homes.
Neighbouring townlands
Ardmore, Ballymacsherron, Cross (Wallace) East, Curraghboy, Emlybeg (Kyle), Emlybeg South
Gaeltacht
In an Irish-speaking area
Placenames
Binghamstown 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.