Ballinagavna

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinagavna, from 977 m² to 106,040 m² (10.6 ha, 26.2 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 Ballinagavna 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinagavna 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 the townland of Ballinagavna.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinagavna.

Architectural heritage

• Smithstown House, farm house, 1740–1750 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey tenant farmhouse, built 1745, on a rectangular plan; three-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. In alternative use, 1864. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Renovated, 1988. Disused, 2011. For sale, 2013. Replacement pitched profiled fibre-cement tile roof centred on pitched (gabled) profiled fibre-cement tile roof, concrete ridge tiles, cement rendered chimney stacks having concrete capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on cement rendered cut-limestone eaves. Creeper- or ivy-covered replacement cement rendered walls. Hipped square-headed central door opening with drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing replacement timber panelled door having sidelights. Square-headed central window opening (first floor) with segmental window opening (gablet), creeper- or ivy-covered drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed window openings with creeper- or ivy-covered drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement timber casement. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, staircase on a dog leg plan with timber "match stick" balusters supporting carved timber banister terminating in volute, and carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber panelled doors; and carved timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with carved timber surrounds to window openings. Set in unkempt grounds.

• Tonrehown Bridge, bridge, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Eight-arch hump back road bridge over river, extant 1838. Part creeper- or ivy-covered walls centred on triangular cutwaters to piers having rendered pyramidal capping with sections of replacement mass concrete coping to parapets. Series of eight segmental arches with cut-limestone voussoirs. Sited spanning Cloonaghmore River or Palmerstown River with unkempt grass banks to river.

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 Ballinagavna, 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 Ballinagavna.

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

Name

Ballinagavna · Baile na nGaibhne

Area

443,057 m² (44.31 ha, 109.48 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfian, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Kilfian East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

242 people lived in 89 households in the Kilfian East electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagor, Barranarran Lower, Kinnavally, Lecarrowanteean, Rathnadoffy, Seeaghanbaun, Springhill

Placenames

Ballinagavna 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.