Church View, Balla

Area

13,287 m² (1.33 ha, 3.28 acres)

Buildings

3 buildings touch it, 882 m² on the ground

Zoning

M4 Self-Sustaining Consolidation Zoning (Mayo County Development Plan 2022-2028) The objective

Townland

Balla

Planning applications on this parcel

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• Saint Cronan's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1905–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached nine-bay double-height Catholic church, designed 1906; built 1912-3, on a rectangular plan comprising nine-bay double-height nave opening into eight-bay double-height flat-roofed side aisles. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary reordered. Renovated, ----, with sanctuary "improved". Pitched Delabole slate roof abutting flat roofs behind parapets (side aisles), clay ridge tiles, lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping to gables with Cross finials to apexes, and concealed rainwater goods retaining rosette-embossed cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone battered walls on lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with Irish battlemented parapets having lichen-covered dragged cut-limestone coping. Paired cusped lancet window openings with drag edged rock faced hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having lattice glazing bars (west) or stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panels (east). Pointed-arch window opening (east) with dragged cut-limestone interlocking Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch door opening to entrance (west) front with dragged cut-limestone step threshold, and drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surround having splayed reveals with hood moulding framing timber boarded double doors. Paired lancet or pointed-arch window openings (gable) with dragged cut-limestone Y-mullions, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals with hood mouldings framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on lattice glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings (west), drag edged dragged hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds having splayed reveals with hood mouldings framing timber boarded double doors. Interior including vestibule (west) with glazed terracotta tiled floor; pointed segmental-headed arcade centred on glazed timber panelled double doors; full-height interior with choir gallery (west), carpeted central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, pointed-arch arcades on granite ashlar octagonal pillars, timber boarded pointed barrel vaulted ceiling with carved timber ribs on box cornice on corbels, stepped dais to sanctuary (east) reordered, ----, with Gothic-style reredos (1919) centred on quatrefoil-detailed Gothic-style memorial high altar (1918) below stained glass "East Window" (1914), stepped daises to side altars with Gothic-style altars below stained glass memorial windows (1915), and Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass memorial windows (1915-6). Set in landscaped grounds with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar chamfered piers to perimeter having lichen-covered drag edged dragged cut-limestone "slated" pyramidal capping supporting reclaimed wrought iron double gates.

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).

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.