Ballinlough

76 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlough, from 57 m² to 130,000 m² (13 ha, 32.12 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 48 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 Ballinlough 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.

• 30 Jul 2026N/a

  Planning application for the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, on-site wastewater treatment system, and connection to existing services together with all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2660613

• 1 Sept 2025Conditional

  retain dwelling house, domestic sheds, septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 25361

• 28 Apr 2025N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: complete renovation of a derelict farmhouse back to living standard without changing the existing structure

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 25154

• 26 Jul 2024Conditional

  construct a dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, together with all ancillary site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 24300

• 20 Mar 2023Conditional

  renovation and extension to the existing dwelling with demolition of existing garage and construction of a new garage and wastewater treatment system with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 23143

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  Construct dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 21282

• 14 Feb 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO DWELLING HOUSE, NEW TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREAS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 20100

• 22 May 2018Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK AND PERCOLATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18372

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 Ballinlough.

Recorded monuments

• MA091-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a terrace on a gentle E-facing slope overlooking the W shore of Tawny Lough. Immediately to E of the rath the slope drops to a narrow strip of damp ground that extends c. 15-20m to the water’s edge. Views are good, especially over the lake. Raised circular area (42.2m N–S; 44.5m E–W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 2.3m; int. H 0.4m; 0.7m at W), largely reduced to a scarp (H 1.8m at E) at N and E, and enclosed at NE–SE by remnants of a fosse and outer bank. The bank is incorporated into a straight field fence (Wth 1.4m; H 1.2m) at SE–SW and is topped by a post and wire fence on the SSW–NW arc. On the E arc, the fosse takes the form of a terrace (Wth c. 5.5-6m) cut into the natural slope. On its outer edge, traces of an outer bank survive as a raised rim (Wth c. 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H c. 1m at NE) with a pronounced external slope (H c. 2m) merging with the natural fall of ground to the lake edge –the slope is covered in gorse and brambles and difficult to examine. Possible remnants of the outer bank can be glimpsed at S in an area obscured by dense overgrowth and animal burrows. The rath interior is level and featureless. A low, slumped section (Wth 1.4-2m) of bank to SW may indicate an original entrance. According to local information, there is a souterrain (MA091-006001-) in the rath. A disused quarry pit (diam. c. 12m; D 2m) immediately to N of the rath impinges on the rath scarp, and has destroyed any evidence of there may have been of a fosse and outer bank here. Quarrying is also evident immediately to S of the rath (in the adjoining field). Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

• MA091-006001 Souterrain
  Description

  In a rath (MA091-006). According to the local information there is a souterrain (MA091-006001) in the interior of the rath. The entrance was beneath a flagstone on the NNE edge of the rath and gave access to a stone-built passage. There is now no visible surface trace at ground level. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 7 February 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinlough, 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 Ballinlough.

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

Name

Ballinlough · Baile an Locha

Area

1,856,841 m² (185.68 ha, 458.84 acres)

Civil parish

Mayo, and its townlands

Barony

Clanmorris

Electoral division

Kilcolman, the unit of the census

Census 2022

455 people lived in 159 households in the Kilcolman electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Acres, Carrowndangan, Coolaghbaun, Derrowel More, Facefield, Tawnylough

Placenames

Ballinlough 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.