Ballygommon

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygommon, from 307 m² to 84,499 m² (8.45 ha, 20.88 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballygommon 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.

• 13 May 2026Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH SITE ACCESS, COMPLETE WITH SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS AND THE DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING COTTAGE and OUTBUILDING.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2660375

• 23 Jan 2023Conditional

  retention of an existing house and all ancillary site works and services on revised site boundaries

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 2316

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 Ballygommon.

Recorded monuments

• MA070-196 Enclosure
  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.

• MA070-197 Enclosure
  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.

• MA070-198 Enclosure
  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.

• MA070-199 Enclosure
  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.

• MA070-202 Enclosure
  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.

• MA070-203 Enclosure
  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

• Worker's house, 1865–1895 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached two-bay single-storey crossing guard's lodge, commissioned 1868[?]; extant 1895. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles centred on red brick Running bond chimney stack having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, timber bargeboards to gables on timber purlins, and replacement plastic rainwater goods on timber eaves boards. Part creeper- or ivy-covered limewashed roughcast walls. Square-headed window openings with roughcast cut-limestone sills, and concealed dressings framing one-over-one timber sash windows having exposed sash boxes. Set in unkempt grounds perpendicular to lane.

• Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1835–1845 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay double-height Catholic church, dated 1840; opened 1841, on a cruciform plan comprising single-bay double-height nave opening into single-bay (single-bay deep) double-height transepts centred on single-bay double-height chancel to crossing (east) with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to entrance (west) front. "Improved", post-1945. "Restored", 2002-3, with sanctuary reordered. Rededicated, 2003. Replacement pitched slate roof on a cruciform plan including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch, clay ridge tiles terminating in drag edged dragged limestone ashlar buttressed gabled bellcote to apex to entrance (west) front framing embossed cast-iron bell, and cast-iron rainwater goods on eaves boards on cut-limestone eaves[?] retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed coursed or snecked limestone walls originally rendered[?] with benchmark-inscribed drag edged tooled cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Lancet window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fittings having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars with stained glass margins (west) centred on leaded stained glass panels. Pointed-arch window opening to entrance (west) front below cut-limestone shield date stone ("1840") with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sill, and repointed tooled cut-limestone voussoirs framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on leaded stained glass panel. Pointed-arch window opening to porch with cut-limestone sill, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround framing storm glazing over fixed-pane fitting having stained glass margins centred on square leaded glazing bars. Pointed-arch opposing door openings to "cheeks" with drag edged tooled hammered limestone block-and-start surrounds framing replacement glazed timber double doors. Interior including vestibule (west); lancet door opening into nave with drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing replacement glazed timber double doors having overlight; full-height interior open into roof with central aisle between cruciform-detailed timber pews, stained glass memorial windows (undated) to transepts, carpeted stepped dais to sanctuary to crossing (east) reordered, 2002-3, with replacement altar table, and exposed timber roof construction with wind braced timber boarded ceiling on perforated timber frieze. Set in relandscaped grounds.

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 Ballygommon, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballygommon · Baile Ó gComáin

Area

966,891 m² (96.69 ha, 238.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kildacommoge, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Manulla, the unit of the census

Census 2022

991 people lived in 349 households in the Manulla electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Gortlahan, Keeloges Old, Killeen, Laghtavarry, Moyhenna

Placenames

Ballygommon 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.