Ballymacrah

97 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacrah, from 48 m² to 108,642 m² (10.86 ha, 26.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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.

• P1Agriculture
  Castlebar Local Area Plan, Mayo · 24 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 9 Mar 2026Conditional

  The development will consist of the upgrade of the existing septic tank system, and all associated site development works at the above address.

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660180

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  Permission to retain an existing house on revised site boundaries, relating to development previously permitted under planning references 69/0561 and 69/0770, and all associated site works at the above address.

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560577

• 23 Feb 2023Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2394

• 23 Feb 2023Conditional

  Construct a dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2397

• 15 Oct 2021Conditional

  RETAIN EXISTING AS CONSTRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ATTACHED GARAGE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS AND SITE SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 211104

• 19 Apr 2021Conditional

  (1) Retain changes to existing dwelling and (2) construct an extension to existing dwelling house, upgrade septic tank and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21359

• 5 Oct 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A DWELLING HOUSE AND GARAGE WITH CONNECTION TO EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, TOGETHER WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS ON LANDS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 20730

• 31 Jan 2020Conditional

  EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF ROAD CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL FOR THE PROPOSED N5 WESTPORT TO TURLOUGH ROAD PROJECT AND TO REPLACE THE MATERIAL WITH IMPORTED INERT FILL MATERIAL FROM THE PROPOSED N5 WESTPORT TO TURLOUGH ROAD PROJECT AND ALL ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY FACILITIES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2053

• 10 Sept 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW REPLACEMENT DETACHED DWELLINGHOUSE AND DOMESTIC GARAGE TOGETHER WITH A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AND PERCOLATION AREA, RENOVATION OF EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE AND SHEDS TO ACCOMMODATE PROPOSED DOMESTIC SHEDS/STORAGE AREA, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19708

• 10 Jun 2019Conditional

  RETAIN DWELLING HOUSE ON REVISED SITE BOUNDARIES TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 19448

• 13 Dec 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17990

• 6 Nov 2017Refused

  CONSTRUCT A NEW CAR SHOWROOM (INCLUSIVE OF OFFICES AND SANITARY ACCOMMODATION), PROPOSED WORKSHOP, UPGRADING THE FACILITIES FOR THE EXISTING ESTABLISHED FUNCTIONS ON SITE, AND WITH A TOTAL FLOOR AREA OF 876.2SQM, CONNECTIONS TO ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS AND LANDSCAPING

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 17882

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 Ballymacrah.

Recorded monuments

• MA078-037 Crannog
  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

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

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 Ballymacrah, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_313 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballymacrah · Baile Mhic Craith

Area

1,680,997 m² (168.1 ha, 415.38 acres)

Civil parish

Aglish, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Castlebar Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,935 people lived in 2,987 households in the Castlebar Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaboll North, Ballynaboll South, Cloondeash, Derrinlevaun, Derrycoosh, Derrylea, Knockaphunta, Pheasanthill

Placenames

Ballymacrah 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.