Ballycarroon

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycarroon, from 333 m² to 247,600 m² (24.76 ha, 61.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballycarroon 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 Ballycarroon 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

• Special Area of Conservation: River Moy SAC 002298

Recorded monuments

• MA038-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet to average pasture, located on a rise in undulating terrain, adjacent to the NW boundary of the townland. This rath is named ‘Rathcurneen’ on the 1938 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. It consists of a roughly circular area (c. 27m E–W) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.35-0.4m; ext. H 1.7m, at W). The bank is best preserved at S and W. The inner face of the bank is low and degraded, with remnants of an internal stone facing or kerb evident in parts at E. A field bank (Wth 2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.4m) curves around the rath at SSE–NW at a distance of 2-2.4m outside the bank, possibly preserving the line of an original fosse and external bank, but no evidence of external enclosing elements are evident on the E half of the rath. The interior has a slight slope down from W to E. There is a shallow depression/gap (max. dim. c. 5-6m) through the bank at W, and a low section of bank at SSW, but the location of the original entrance is uncertain. The rath is engulfed in blackthorn scrub. There is a possible enclosure (MA038-014----) c. 200m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019

• MA038-013 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, in an area of undulating terrain. Not shown on the 1838 OS 6-inch map or on the 25-inch plan; depicted on the 1922 edition as a D-shaped hachured area bordered on the straight side to W by a field boundary. Included in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as ‘enclosure (site)’. A note in the SMR file records it as a destroyed enclosure. At this location there is as a D-shaped depression (14m NNW–SSE; 12m ENE–WSW; D 1.6m) with a concave inward-sloping scarp on the curving side, which falls to a relatively level base. On the straight side to W there is a steep external fall of ground, with remnants of a field fence on the top of this scarp. Ash trees grow in the interior, and gorse and brambles ring the perimeter. It appears to be a quarry pit of relatively recent date. No trace of an enclosure remains. There is a possible rath (MA038-014) c. 100m to NE. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019

• MA038-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on top of a rise, close to the break of slope on the NE side. There is a farmyard immediately to NE–E. This rath is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps, where it is named ‘Rathandarris’; on the 1922 edition it is depicted as an oval enclosure (c. 22m E–W; c. 27m N–S) truncated on its S-SW edge by a straight NW-SE field boundary. The rath has been levelled, and part of the NE-E quadrant has been completely quarried away, with the steep quarried scarp dropping into the farmyard. There is a rath (MA038-012----) located c. 200m to NW. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 17 July 2019

• MA038-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a prominent rise in an area of undulating terrain. Ground gradually shelving away towards the River Deel which lies 120m to S and marks the townland boundary. There are good views to SE and W along the course of the river. This rath is named ‘Rathmore’ on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps. Raised circular area (23.8m N–S; 24m E–W) defined by an earthen bank and enclosed by a fosse with an external bank. The inner bank (Wth 6.8m; int. H 1.1m; ext. 2.4m) has a broad internal slump, especially on the S half, which gives the interior a somewhat saucer-shaped profile. A rough kerb of stones is evident on the internal face at NE, and dry stone facing can also be seen on the external face on the south half of the rath. The fosse (Wth 4.4m) is evident as a broad, shallow depression. At SE–NE the external bank has been levelled to broad, low rise (Wth 6m); at NE–SE, where it was modified to serve as a field boundary, it survives as a bank (Wth c. 3m; int. H 1.3m; ext. H 1.2-1.4m) of earth and stone, with much field clearance stone heaped along it. The rath interior is relatively level, and is dotted with small, moss-covered heaps of field clearance stones. There is an entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at ESE, with a causeway across the fosse. A corresponding gap in the external bank is no longer evident as this section of the bank is incorporated into a later field boundary. The inner bank is ringed with hawthorn, hazel and brambles. There is another rath (MA038-044001) 300m to W. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 26 July 2019

• MA038-046 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture in undulating terrain, located on a rise with a steep slope on the E side. A stream/field drain skirts the base of the rise at NE–E and continues for 100m to S to meet the River Deel, which marks the townland boundary. This enclosure is shown on the 1838 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps as a circular ringfort-sized enclosure (diam. c. 20m). It has been levelled; a low, flat-topped roughly circular rise (c. 14m E–W; 16-18m N–S), with a fall of ground on the E side, is evident. Adjacent field boundaries, which are shown to W, N and E on the 1922 OS 6-inch map, have been removed. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 25 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycarroon, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_310 (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 Ballycarroon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballycarroon · Baile Charrúin

Area

823,469 m² (82.35 ha, 203.48 acres)

Civil parish

Crossmolina, and its townlands

Barony

Tirawley

Electoral division

Crossmolina North, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,105 people lived in 445 households in the Crossmolina North electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingrogy, Ballinlabaun, Carrowcloghagh, Cloonawillin, Kildaree, Lecarrowcloghagh, Mauteoge

Placenames

Ballycarroon 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.