Killavally West
Killavally West is a townland in the civil parish of Ballintober, barony of Carra, Co. Mayo. Its name in Irish is Coill an Bhaile Thiar.
Parcel 4671100
- Area
- 8,337 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 120 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Killavally West
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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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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.
- Area
- 223.3 ha
- 552 acres
- Land parcels
- 131
- registered freehold, median 2,401 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
131 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Killavally West, from 0 m² to 229,180 m² (22.92 ha, 56.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 51 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Killavally West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
27 May 2026Conditional
Planning permission to construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660419
16 Sept 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24381
11 Jul 2024N/a
construct dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 24268
28 Jun 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24252
7 May 2024Conditional
construct dwelling house and domestic garage with connection to effluent treatment system, and retain site development works together with associated site services. Previous planning reference P073105 refers
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24150
19 Jan 2024Refused
construct dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area
Permission · Mayo County Council, 249
4 Sept 2023Conditional
Construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, domestic garage together with all associated ancillary services
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 23500
6 Sept 2019Conditional
CONSTRUCT DETACHED DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19700
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Killavally West.
Recorded monuments
- MA089-044 Enclosure
Description
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.
Architectural heritage
- Walsh's Cottage, farm house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched farmhouse with dormer attic, extant 1838, originally three-bay single-storey. Extended, pre-1923, producing present composition. "Restored", 2001/2[?], to accommodate occasional use. For sale, 2012. Replacement pitched reed thatch roof with exposed lattice stretchers to decorative raised ridge having blind scallops, cement rendered dwarf chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Limewashed rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with limewashed sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth. Road fronted with gravel verge to front.
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1960–1965 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay double-height Catholic church, rebuilt 1961-2; rededicated 1964, on a rectangular plan comprising three-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay double-height chancel (east) with single-bay single-storey projecting porch to entrance (west) front. Pitched slate roofs including pitched "cat slide" slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles terminating in lichen-covered pre-cast concrete Cross finials to apexes, and embedded rainwater goods in slightly overhanging concrete or rendered eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered triangular "buttresses". Triangular-headed lancet window openings with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass crucifixes. Triangular-headed window openings to chancel (east) with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded panels. Triangular-headed lancet window opening in tripartite arrangement to entrance (west) front with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings having margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Triangular-headed opposing door openings to porch with concealed dressings framing diagonal timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having overlights. Interior including vestibule (west); square-headed door opening into nave with glazed timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors having sidelights; full-height interior open into roof with stained glass "West Window" (undated), carpeted central aisle between timber pews, reclaimed Gothic-style timber stations between stained glass windows, stepped dais to sanctuary (east) with "basket weave"-pattern timber parquet stepped "predella" supporting timber altar table, and exposed steel roof construction with wind braced ceiling. Set in own grounds.
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 Killavally West, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Killavally West.
- 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
No address of the register names Killavally West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Killavally West · Coill an Bhaile Thiar
- Area
- 2,233,085 m² (223.31 ha, 551.81 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballintober, and its townlands
- Barony
- Carra
- Electoral division
- Killavally, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 518 people lived in 181 households in the Killavally electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bellaburke, Devleash East, Killavally East, Kiltarsaghaun, Moat
- Placenames
- Killavally West 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.