Ballywalter

108 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywalter, from 39 m² to 68,352 m² (6.84 ha, 16.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballywalter 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.

• 9 Feb 2022Conditional

  CONSTRUCT A NEW SLATTED SHED WITH UNDERGROUND SLURRY STORAGE TANK AND ALL ASSOCIATED WORKS

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 2283

• 11 Jul 2017Conditional

  CONSTRUCT DWELLING HOUSE, PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT, PERCOLATION AREA AND DOMESTIC GARAGE ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 17550

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: Clyard Kettle-holes SAC 000480
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clyard Kettle-Holes 000480

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballywalter.

Architectural heritage

• The Neale Cottage, house, 1700–1838 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, extant 1838, with single-bay single-storey lean-to outshot (north). "Restored", 2000, to accommodate occasional use. Pitched roof with replacement reed thatch, exposed hazel or willow lattice stretchers to ridge having exposed scallops, rendered dwarf chimney stack having stringcourse below shallow segmental capping, and concrete or rendered coping to gables. Replacement cement rendered battered walls. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Square-headed opposing door openings with concealed dressings framing replacement timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors. Interior including kitchen retaining hearth with rusticated surround centred on keystone. Set in landscaped grounds perpendicular to bohreen.

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 Ballywalter, 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 low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballywalter · Baile Ualtair

Area

892,867 m² (89.29 ha, 220.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmolara, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Neale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

879 people lived in 298 households in the Neale electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshingadaun, Caherhemush, Cashlancran, Kildotia, Munnadesha, Nealepark

Placenames

Ballywalter 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.