Ballyguin

13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyguin, from 290 m² to 293,518 m² (29.35 ha, 72.53 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyguin 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 Ballyguin 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

• MA070-086 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  In level rough grazing in a narrow (Wth c. 120m E-W) meander in the Clydagh River which forms the northern boundary of Ballyguin townland and flows from the SW around the W, N and E sides of the site. Reported as a possible horizontal-wheeled mill (SMR file). Indicated but not named on the first edition (1837) of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular structure (est. L c. 10m NNE-SSW; est. Wth c. 5m) straddling a mill race running NW-SE (L c. 90m) across the crook of the meander. A second, much longer mill race (L c. 450m) is also depicted running perpendicularly SSE off the shorter race to the ‘Corn & Tuck Mills’ and ‘Corn Kilns’ at Park Bridge. The mill building is not shown on the slightly later OS 25-inch map (1893) suggesting that it had fallen out of use; likely superseded by the larger mill complex at Park Bridge. There are no upstanding remains of this mill building and no conclusive evidence of it having been a horizontal wheeled mill. Both mill races are still traceable. The shorter NW-SE race feeds off the Clydagh River at its NW end as a mainly rock-cut channel (Wth at base 2m; av. D 2m) and contains an overgrown masonry sluice gate or possible flume which narrows towards its SE end (Wth 1.2m to Wth 1m). The other, much longer race runs perpendicularly SSE off it. It is earth-cut (Wth 1-1.5m: D 1-1.4m) and runs through open ground (L c. 130m) to close on the Clydagh River from where it continues parallel to the W bank to the mills at Park Bridge. Date of visit: 11-2-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-087001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a narrow strip (Wth c. 40m) of rush-covered rough grazing bordered by the N-flowing Clydagh River to the W and a broad drain to the E. Reported as a possible fulacht fia along with a second possible fulacht fia (MA070-087002-) c. 60m to the SSW (SMR file). No visible surface trace of either survives at the reported locations. Date of visit: 11-2-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-087002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In a narrow strip (Wth c. 40m) of rush-covered rough grazing bordered by the N-flowing Clydagh River to the W and a broad drain to the E. Reported as a possible fulacht fia along with a second possible fulacht fia (MA070-087001-) c. 60m to the NNE (SMR file). No visible surface trace of either survives at the reported locations. Date of visit: 11-2-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-088 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture on the upper NE end of a broad ridge past which the Clydagh River flows S c. 70m to the E. Reported as a possible ringfort (SMR file). A roughly circular raised area (int. diam. 26m N-S) is defined by a curving scarp (H 0.8m at N – 2.8m at S) N-E-S. A later sunken trackway and earthen field boundary run NW–SE just outside the SW sector. The interior slopes gently to NE and E and appears featureless.  Date of visit: 11-2-2025 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

• MA070-136 Fulacht fia
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

• MA070-137 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyguin, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyguin · Baile Ó gCuinn

Area

466,154 m² (46.62 ha, 115.19 acres)

Civil parish

Turlough, and its townlands

Barony

Carra

Electoral division

Turlough, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,560 people lived in 531 households in the Turlough electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 46% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boyogonnell, Cloonnagleragh, Killard, Park, Turlough

Placenames

Ballyguin 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.