Ballybeg

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeg, from 449 m² to 261,227 m² (26.12 ha, 64.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• P1Agriculture
  Ballina Local Area Plan, Mayo · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 16 Sept 2022Conditional

  IMPORTATION OF INERT FILL SOILS MATERIAL FOR AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT PURPOSES, INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 22804

• 12 Feb 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF TWO SINGLE STOREY NEW EXTENSIONS AND AN ATTACHED SINGLE STOREY GARAGE TO AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 21106

• 18 Dec 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCT 1 NO. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SHED INCLUDING ALL OTHER ANCILLARY SITE WORK AND SERVICES

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19983

• 24 May 2019Refused

  CONSTRUCT NEW DWELLING HOUSE AND DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE AND INSTALLATION OF AN ONSITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM AND INFILTRATION AREA AND ALL ANCILLARY WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 19384

• 1 Oct 2018Refused

  CHANGE OF USE FROM EXISTING AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS TO A CHILDCARE FACILITY AND ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 18750

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 Ballybeg.

Recorded monuments

• MA039-050001 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
  Description

  In pasture, located on a ridge with a fall of ground to E. There are very good views N–SE, with the Ox Mountains form the skyline to E. Ground rises slightly to W. The court tomb is depicted on the 1930 OS 6-inch map as an oblong area (c. 22m N–S; 11m E–W) outlined by a dashed line, and indicated as ‘Children’s Burial Ground’. It is evident as a low grassy mound studded with stones and boulders, with some forming a rough kerb around the perimeter. A N–S field fence skirts the W side of the megalith. According to local information, the court tomb was used as a burial ground for unbaptised infants (MA039-050002). See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 3 January 2012

• MA039-050002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In a pasture field, located at a court tomb (MA039-050001-). Indicated on the 1930 OS 6-inch map as ‘Children’s burial ground’. According to local information, the court tomb was used as a burial ground for unbaptised infants, with the last burials taking place in the early 20th century. The court tomb is evident as a low grass-covered mound with large stones and boulders protruding from it or lying upon it. No clearly defined graves can be discerned. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 27 January 2020

• MA039-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a low ridge, with gradual fall of ground to W. Raised circular area (42.4m N–S; 41.4m E–W) enclosed by a substantial, compact earthen bank (Wth 4m at W; 6.2m at W; int. H 1.1m at E; 0.85m at W; ext. H 1.6m at E; 2.7m at W). At SW–SE the external scarp of the bank is incorporated into a property fence. Immediately outside the bank at NW–NE there is a depression (Wth 3m; D 1m). This serves as a farm track but it may have reused an earlier fosse. The track extends to W towards a farmstead. The rath interior is level except for a slight dip towards the E where there is a low or eroded area (Wth c. 2m) in the bank which may indicate the original entrance. The break in the bank is flanked in the interior by two boulders, set 1.6m apart and c. 1.5m back from the inner face of the bank. A low kerb-like setting of stones extends 3m to N of the N most boulder. The perimeter is ringed with hawthorn, blackthorn and ash; the interior is grassy, with clumps of blackthorn at NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 21 May 2014

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch hump back road bridge over railway line, opened 1873; extant 1896. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed snecked rock faced limestone walls with rock faced cut-limestone coping to parapets. Single segmental arch[?] with drag edged rock faced limestone ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning railway line with unkempt embankments to railway line.

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 Ballybeg, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_375 (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 Ballybeg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballybeg · An Baile Beag

Area

1,563,776 m² (156.38 ha, 386.42 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynahaglish, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Carrowmore, the unit of the census

Census 2022

896 people lived in 323 households in the Carrowmore electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyderg, Ballymacredmond, Ballynahaglish, Ballynaraha, Cloonturk, Corroy, Drumrevagh

Placenames

Ballybeg 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.