Balloughadalla

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balloughadalla, from 78 m² to 320,866 m² (32.09 ha, 79.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Balloughadalla 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.

• 22 Apr 2026Conditional

  construct new shed over existing underground storage tank, the construction of a new cattle shed consisting of a underground storage tank, a new feeding passage and a new silage slab together with all associated site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2692

• 3 Feb 2025Conditional

  1): Demolish existing 2 storey detached house 2): Retain and demolish single storey extension to southern elevation of existing house 3): Construct replacement 2 storey house 5): Carry out all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560058

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 the townland of Balloughadalla.

Recorded monuments

• MA022-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located in a natural depression on a saucer-shaped terrace on a NW-facing slope, overlooking a flat expanse of lowlying bog and reclaimed pasture. When inspected in 1995 this rath consisted of a raised circular area (35m N–S; 33.3m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 1.6m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.55m, at S), reduced at WSW–NW to a scarp (ext. H 1m) which retained a hint of an inner lip (Wth 3m). The interior had a slight slope down to SE. There was a low, sod-covered rise (1.5m N–S; 2m E–W; H 0.3m) roughly in the centre of the interior. A shallow depression (Wth 1.7m; D 0.25m) was evident along the inner edge of the bank on the SW arc. There was a gap (Wth 2.8m) in the bank at E and another (Wth 2m) at SE. The rath has since been levelled. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 3 May 2019

• MA022-086 Crannog
  Description

  In pasture which has been reclaimed from a drained lake, named Lough Dalla on the 1838 OS 6-inch map. The N and E part of the drained lake has been converted to fields of damp pasture, dotted with rushes; to S and W there is an expanse of rough, boggy ground covered with heather, reeds and other bog vegetation. The immediate surrounds of the crannog have been planted with forestry. On the 1838 OS 6-inch map, a roughly circular island (diam. 10-15m), named Nettle Island, is shown in the lake close to the NW shoreline; it is not clear if this represents the crannog, which is larger in diameter. By the time of the 1929 edition the lake had already been drained, and the crannog is not shown. The crannog is evident as a low, grass-grown circular platform or mound (35.6m NW–SE; 35m NE–SW; H 1.5m) with a gently domed profile. It forms a prominent rise of firm ground amidst the surrounding soft, damp pasture. The top of the mound provides a fairly level space, with a very gradual break of slope with the broadly sloping sides. It has a rather uneven surface, with several dips and rises, and a slight depression in the centre. Large stones are exposed in parts around the base of the mound. In parts where the sod cover has eroded, the make-up of the mound is revealed as stony, black peaty soil, with inclusions of burnt stone, charcoal and animal bone (cattle, pig). A field ditch (Wth c. 3m; D c. 2m) on a SE–NW axis clips the S edge of the mound. There are two references to Lough Dalla in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, 203 (402-408)), which suggest that this crannog may have been of some importance: one reference recounts that Lough Dalla is mentioned in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, where St. Patrick curses a man who thwarted his efforts to build a church at a ford close to the lake, foretelling that the man’s ‘posterity should be noted with marks of wicked seditions and manslaughter.’ The second reference states that the lake ‘was, we are informed in the Poem of MacFirbis (1417), one of the ‘Bailte Puirt (Chief Residences) of the Hy-Fiachrach.’ Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 May 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Balloughadalla, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Balloughadalla.

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.

No address of the register names Balloughadalla with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Balloughadalla · Bealach Locha Deala

Area

2,575,677 m² (257.57 ha, 636.46 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Rathoma, the unit of the census

Census 2022

248 people lived in 86 households in the Rathoma electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybroony, Ballymackeehola, Ballynaboll, Cloonfadda, Cloonshinnagh, Knockaskeehaun, Raheens

Placenames

Balloughadalla 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.