Ballygarry

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygarry, from 349 m² to 80,980 m² (8.1 ha, 20.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ballygarry 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.

• 24 Sept 2026N/a

  Retention Permission for front porch to existing dwelling house and Retention Permission for the conversion of an existing stone outbuilding to a self-contained isolation unit together with all associated site works and connection into existing services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2660750

• 30 Oct 2025Conditional

  The development will consist of the upgrade of the existing septic tank system, and all associated site development works at Ballygarry, Partry, Co. Mayo, F12 RF22.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560759

• 12 Aug 2025Conditional

  Extend the existing dwelling house, install / construct a new septic tank secondary treatment system and appropriate percolation area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2560544

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: Lough Carra/Mask Complex SAC 001774
• Special Protection Area: Lough Mask SPA 004062
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Carra/Mask Complex 001774

Recorded monuments

• MA109-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In dense scrub, 100m from shore of Lough Carra to W. Circular dry-stone wall (diam. 3.3m N-S; H 0.9m; Wth 0.5m), with entrance on S, enclose heavily overgrown well site. Dedicated to St. Columbkille. Stations were performed here on Mondays and Thursdays (O'Donovan 1838, 32). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 644. Date of upload: 21 January 2015

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygarry, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygarry · Baile an Gharraí

Area

538,427 m² (53.84 ha, 133.05 acres)

Civil parish

Ballyovey, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Portroyal, the unit of the census

Census 2022

603 people lived in 220 households in the Portroyal electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 9% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynanerroon More, Carrowmoney, Knockaleanore, Knocknagool

Placenames

Ballygarry 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.