Ballyart

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyart, from 256 m² to 97,667 m² (9.77 ha, 24.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballyart 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.

• 15 Jun 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DETACHED GARDEN STUDIO ALONG WITH ALL NECESSARY SITE WORKS AND ANCILLARYIES.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20377

• 7 May 2019Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING CONVERTED ATTIC SPACE AND DETACHED GARAGE/SHED FOR DOMESTIC USE, P06/2017 REFERS

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19333

• 7 Apr 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND FOR ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17256

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA070-095 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In the damp corner of a field on the lower NW slope of a pasture ridge. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). A low roughly circular stony hummock (max. H 0.2m; diam. 6m) is overgrown with heavy grass and rush cover.  Date of visit: 1-11-2024 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-100 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In generally poor quality rush-covered pasture close to the E edge of a recut drain (D 2.3m) which meets a fast-flowing stream c. 15m to the S. Reported as a possible fulacht fia (SMR file). At the reported location, a strip of ground (Wth c. 10m) along the E side of the recut drain has been cleared of overgrowth and immediately E of this cleared strip are  dense pockets of whin scrub. Dredged spoil material on the E edge of the drain averages 2m wide and 0.3m high. There is no visible surface trace of the possible fulacht fia. Date of visit: 11-12-2024 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-101 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the N end of a broad pasture ridge with the ground falling steeply to the Clydagh River along the E. A roughly circular bivallate rath (int. diam. 30m) is bisected by a later field boundary wall running WNW-ESE across the interior. A broad inner bank (Wth. 4.2- 8.8m; int. H 0.25-1.4m; ext. H 1m-3m) is mainly earthen but stone is evident S-W and stone facing is visible at the base of a livestock gap at NW. Other modern gaps occur in the ESE and S sectors. A flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2-3m) running outside the inner bank is visible NW-N-NNE and SSE-S-WSW. A second, outer bank survives NW-N- NNE (Wth 2.5-3m; int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.4m). It is overlain by a later wall N-NNE has a livestock gap at NNW. There is no clear trace of the outer bank elsewhere. Trees and bushes grow on site perimeter and briars cover parts of interior.    Date of visit: 12-12-2024   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyart, 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballyart · Baile Uí Airt

Area

292,735 m² (29.27 ha, 72.34 acres)

Civil parish

Turlough, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Bellavary, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,084 people lived in 399 households in the Bellavary electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boyogonnell, Carrowkeel, Cashel Upper, Lack West, Park

Placenames

Ballyart 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.