Ballyglass

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyglass, from 480 m² to 84,306 m² (8.43 ha, 20.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballyglass 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 Jul 2025Conditional

  Planning permission is sought for: The construction of a storey and a half extension to the left (south-west) of the existing dwelling to include: • Ground floor: new entrance with staircase, sitting room, utility room, toilet, rear hall, plant room, en-suite bedroom with dressing room, • First floor: en-suite master bedroom with dressing room, bathroom, 2 No. Bedrooms, linen closet, and landing. Alterations to the existing dwelling to include: • Internal reconfiguration including wall removal and new opening to create open-plan kitchen/dining/living area; • Inclusion widening of existing window to the rear (north-west) elevation, addition of sliding doors to the right (north-east) elevation and replacing existing front door on front (south-east) elevation with smaller window. With the addition of 3 velux rooflights front (south-east) elevation and 3 velux rooflights to the rear (north-west) elevation, gabling pitched roof and proposed two new door openings to left elevation to gain access to new extension. • Removal of two chimney from existing central walls • Addition of stone to the existing dwelling on (south-east) elevation Construction of a domestic garage. Upgrading existing site entrance to south-west with proposed new boundary walls and piers. Installation of new wastewater treatment system and percolation area with connection to existing services and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560455

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 Ballyglass.

Recorded monuments

• MA071-043 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on a low rise, with good but not extensive views. This rath was levelled in the 1950's. The outline of the rath can still be traced as a slightly raised, roughly circular area (diam. c. 29m) defined by a slight scarp, outside which there are ephemeral traces of a fosse and outer bank. The fosse and outer bank are overlain at SSE–SSW by a farm road. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 13 July 2021

• MA071-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the top of a knoll with good view of the surrounding landscape. There is a disused railway line 50m to W. Raised circular area (24.2m; 26.5m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.1m, at WSW) which is reduced to a scarp (H 1.5m at ENE) on the NE arc. The rath has been incorporated in to a later system of field fences, and the external face of the bank/scarp has been cut to the vertical and faced with stone to serve as a field fence; at WSW−N the top of the bank has a shallow step (Wth 0.6-1m) dropping to the stone-faced external slope. A slight depression (Wth 2.6m) outside the bank at SE−SW may indicate a fosse. The interior slopes down slightly from centre to E. At E a low section of scarp, with relatively modern stone cladding, may obscure an original entrance facing the more gently sloping side of the knoll. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees around the perimeter. Another rath (MA071-048----) is located 265m to SE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2021

• MA071-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, located on the top of a ridge, at the break of slope on the S side. Ground rises gently to NW. There are very good views to N−SE over the surrounding undulating landscape and to S−SW over a broad valley of reclaimed damp pasture, with a stream 260m to W, beyond which there is another ridge. Raised circular area (33m N−S; 34.5m E−W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.6m at S, 3.8m at N; int. H 0.65m at S, 0.6m at N; ext. H 2.1m at S, 1.5m at N). At W−N the bank is reduced to a scarp, retaining only a slight internal lip. The external height is lowest on the E arc (H 0.75m). The bank incorporates stones and boulders in parts along its inner face, and several large stones and boulders, probably field clearance stones, lie loosely against the inner slope of the bank at SE−S. Immediately outside the bank at S−W there is a slight depression (Wth 2.8m) with a hint of a rise (Wth 3m) on its outer edge, possibly indicating an infilled fosse and levelled outer bank. The rath appears to be built up higher on the SW arc, compensating for the natural fall of ground on this side. There is a slight rise in interior ground level at centre and W of centre. A small crescent-shaped stony mound (L 2m NW−SE; H 0.2m) is located SW of centre, possibly a field clearance heap. A low area (Wth 3.3m) in the bank at ESE is the most likely location for an original entrance, but it is not well defined. There are several narrow breaks, eroded by farm stock, around the bank circuit. Grass cover, with a few hawthorn trees on the bank. An old farm track lies c. 10-15m N of the rath, leading to a derelict vernacular farmstead at NE. There is a rath (MA071-049----) 260m to ENE. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2021

• MA071-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a thicket of overgrowth in the NE corner of a pasture field, located at a fold in the NW slope of a ridge, with good views to W; rising ground restricts views E−S. Raised circular area (c. 31m N−S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m at NE, 5.2m at SW; int. H 0.6m at NE,1.45m at SW; ext. H 1.4m at NE, 2.3m at SW). The bank, composed of sandy silty soil, is noticeably higher and more substantial on the S half. It is topped in parts with a thin scatter of stones There is a slight depression (Wth c. 2.6m) outside the bank at SW, which may indicated a fosse, however, it is unclear to what extent it is just an effect create by naturally rising ground which backs the rath here. A field fence skirts the rath on the E side, with an intervening gap of 5m. The rath interior is engulfed in a thicket of blackthorn and the perimeter is thickly ringed with hawthorn and hazel trees. Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy Date of upload: 22 July 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyglass, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyglass · An Baile Glas

Area

635,062 m² (63.51 ha, 156.93 acres)

Civil parish

Kilconduff, and its townlands

Barony

Gallen

Electoral division

Brackloon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

655 people lived in 236 households in the Brackloon electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 8% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvoher, Collagh, Gortnasillagh, Liscottle, Lissanumera, Tonroe, Tullanacorra

Placenames

Ballyglass 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.