Ballynastangford Lower
Townland in the civil parish of Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), barony of Clanmorris, Co. Mayo; in Irish Baile an Stancaird Íochtarach
Parcel 956284
- Area
- 79,671 m² (7.97 ha, 19.69 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it, 67 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballynastangford Lower
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 2 recorded monuments.
- MA091-020 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
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: 6 January 2012
- MA091-021 Children's burial ground
Description
In rough pasture, located on a NW–SE ridge, close to the break of slope on the SW side. Good views, overlooking an expanse of lowlying, boggy ground at SW–NW. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1920 edition as an oblong area outlined by a dashed line and named ‘Children’s Burial Ground’. A slightly raised, oblong area (c. 15m ENE–WSW; c. 8m NNW–SSE; H 0.3m) with poorly defined sides, except at NNW where it is bordered by a straight field ditch and field fence on a NE−SW axis. Low stones, possibly marking graves, protrude randomly from the level surface. Rather dilapidated; engulfed in gorse, clumps of brambles and long grass. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 57.8 ha
- 143 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 4,104 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynastangford Lower, from 872 m² to 90,779 m² (9.08 ha, 22.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynastangford Lower 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 May 2018Conditional
CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, GARAGE AND SEPTIC TANK/FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM, TOGETHER WITH ALL ANCILLARY SITE WORKS AND SERVICES
Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 18334
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynastangford Lower.
Recorded monuments
- MA091-020 Megalithic tomb - court tomb
Description
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: 6 January 2012
- MA091-021 Children's burial ground
Description
In rough pasture, located on a NW–SE ridge, close to the break of slope on the SW side. Good views, overlooking an expanse of lowlying, boggy ground at SW–NW. Not indicated on the 1838 OS 6-inch map; shown on the 1920 edition as an oblong area outlined by a dashed line and named ‘Children’s Burial Ground’. A slightly raised, oblong area (c. 15m ENE–WSW; c. 8m NNW–SSE; H 0.3m) with poorly defined sides, except at NNW where it is bordered by a straight field ditch and field fence on a NE−SW axis. Low stones, possibly marking graves, protrude randomly from the level surface. Rather dilapidated; engulfed in gorse, clumps of brambles and long grass. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 9 February 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynastangford Lower.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynastangford Lower.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynastangford Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynastangford Lower · Baile an Stancaird Íochtarach
- Area
- 577,656 m² (57.77 ha, 142.74 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcolman (Claremorris Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanmorris
- Electoral division
- Kilcolman, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Kilcolman electoral division: 455 people in 159 households; 94% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Birchfield, Cloonboy, Drumagh, Facefield, Gorteenmore, Mossbrook
- Placenames
- Ballynastangford Lower 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.