Ballyhaunis

Mayo Estates Exempt from Household Charge

Exempt from Household Charge in County Mayo

People living on the list of estates below will not have to pay the household charge of €100 in 2012. Official list . Jan 2012

Barley Hill Court Castlebar Road Bohola
Beechpark Convent Road Claremorris
Belleek Manor Belleek Road Ballina
Black Oak Rise Barrick Hill Newport
Bracklaboy Village Knock Road Ballyhaunis
Carrabeg Newport road Castlebar
Carrowmore Drive Main Street Knock
Carrowmore meadows Kiltimagh Road Knock
Cedar Park Newport road Westport
Church Manor Church Road Ballina
Church View Mullenmore Street Crossmolina
Claremont Manor Knock Road Claremorris
Cluain Abhainn Ballinrobe Road Westport
Cois abhainn Bonniconlon Bonniconlon
Cois Abhainn Kilkelly Road Kilmovee
Cornwater Place Bridge street Ballinrobe
Craobh ban Quay Road Newport
Derry Gurry Pontoon Road Foxford
Duggort Beach Duggort Achill
Duggort View Slievemore Road Achill
Dun Na Ri Dublin Road Swinford
Elm Park Knock Road Claremorris
Foxfield Park Bohola Road Kiltimagh
Friars Court Killala Road Ballina
Gleann Darrach Dublin Road Swinford
Glen Ri Bonniconlon Road Ballina
Glenbrook Kiltimagh Road Knock
Glencara Kiltimagh Road Knock
Heather Vale Garryduff Castlebar
Highland Park Highfield Kilkelly
Lansyn Boheransup Ballina
Lavey Manor Laveybeg Charlestown
Mill Lodge Swinford road Foxford
Newtown Manor Scaradaun Road Ballindine
Plan Ref Pl46217432 (College Woods) Westport Road Castlebar
Plan Ref 021988 Hill Street Newport
Plan Ref 031825, 0730 Kilbeagh Village, Knock Road Charlestown
Plan Ref 041928 Ardroe Claremorris
Plan Ref 043291 (Annagh Village) Crossmolina road Lahardaun
Plan Ref 043568 Murrisk abbey Murrisk
Plan Ref 043679 Shore Road Belmullet
Plan Ref 04894 Ballybeg Bangor Erris
Plan Ref 051057 (lugnalisheen) Irishtown Road Ballindine
Plan Ref 051282 Mayfield Claremorris
Plan Ref 061063 Ballyhaunis Road Aughamore
Plan Ref 062770 Church Road Ballina
Plan Ref 06559 Old Castlebar Road Ballyvarry
Plan Ref 071573 Lisnaboley Lane, Ardroe Claremorris
Plan Ref 982903, 01587, 0852 (College Ballyhaunis Road Claremorris Woods)
Plan Ref 992685 (Quignalecka Apartments) Sligo Road Ballina
Rath Dubh Dublin Road Swinford
Sean Abhain Castle Street Castlebar
Sli Na Misean Louisburgh Road Westport
Slievemore Atlantic Drive Achill
Suan Tra Aghleam Aghleam
The Cresent Churchfield Knock
The Glebe Church Road Ballina
The Maples Hazelhill Ballyhaunis
The Waterways Ballinrobe Road Castlebar
The Woods Turlough Road Turlough
Tower View Ballycastle road Killala

Paying Household Charge at Council Offices

According to the Household Charge website – people who don’t want to register or pay online should be able to get registration forms and make payments at their local County Council or City Council offices.

See more here about the new Household Charge which is payable by all home owners from Jan 2012.

We did a quick survey of most of the County Council and City Council websites on January 6th to see if they were providing any  information about the Household Charge.

We checked the council websites for  Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork,  Donegal, South County  Dublin, Dublin City , Fingal , County Galway, Galway City Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary,  Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow.
Some sites had no information about the Household Charge at all – Carlow , North Tipp, Offaly and Monaghan did not mention it -or if they did it was well hidden!

The majority of the Council websites had just a  link direct to the Household Charge website but no other info or mention of payment or forms being available.

Two  Councils  had a small bit of information about the charge and a link to the Householdcharge website . (Limerick County and Killarney).
Only three sites also had links to downloadable forms – Westmeath, Wicklow and Longford.

The only council that provided any useful information and confirmed that they were issuing forms and accepting payments was Fingal County Council.
Their website informs users that Household charge registration forms are available at all  Fingal County Council cash offices and reception desks in Swords & Blanchardstown, at all Fingal Libraries and at Citizens Information Centres. They also state that Registration forms can be returned  and payments can be made through Fingal County Council cash offices at Grove Rd, Blanchardstown or County Hall, Swords from 9.30am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Completed forms will be forwarded by the Council to the Household Charge payment office. They even have  staff in a  Household Charge Team available on  01 890 6254

Well done Fingal County Council – !

Update Jan 9th - Dublin City Council now have information about accepting payments  – they state on their site that anyone who wants to pay Household Charge to Dublin City Council should go to :  Customer Services Centre ,Ground Floor Block 3 Civic Offices.

Cavan have added some information that Household Charge Payments will be accepted at the Rates office, Courthouse, Cavan.

Galway County Council now say that forms can be collected  from  Galway County Council, Aras an Chontae, Prospect Hill, Galway.  Payments of Household Charge can be made bBy calling to your Local Authority office (By credit card/laser/cheque/bankdraft / or Cash)

Wexford County Council have confirmed that cash will be accepted in any of the following Wexford Local Authority Offices and together with your completed registration form will be forwarded to the Central Processing Unit in Dublin.

- Wexford County Council, Carricklawn, Wexford.

- Wexford Borough Council, Spawell Road, Wexford.

- New Ross Town Council, The Tholsel, New Ross

- Enniscorthy Town Council, Market Square, Enniscorthy.

- Gorey District Office, Civic Square, Gorey.

County Mayo Tesco Delivery

With new Tesco shops opened in Swinford and Ballinrobe – and the existing Tesco stores in Claremorris, Westport, Castlebar and Ballina – you would think that most of Co. Mayo could get Tesco online shopping deliveries.
It looks like it is still just the Castlebar store that does the deliveries  – so only homes within about 20 miles of Castlebar can get deliveries.
This includes Swinford, Claremorris Westport Newport and all addresses between Castlebar and these towns. If you live in these Mayo towns you can shop online at Tesco Ireland here.

These Mayo towns are also covered by Tesco home deliveries Kiltimagh, Bohola, Breaffy, Ballyvary, Balla, Knock, Foxford

Ballina cannot get Tesco deliveries – nor can Ballyhaunis, Louisburgh, Ballinrobe, Cong, Ballindine, Tourmakeady, Pontoon

Speed Camera Locations in County Mayo

Potential Locations of Mobile Speed Cameras in County Mayo from November 2010
There will be 45 speed camera vans spread across approx 600 different locations all over Ireland. These are the roads around County Mayo where you could spot one of those cameras over the next  few years.

Slow down and try to get used to going slower .  Speed does Kill
This is a list of Garda Speed Enforcement Zones where both Garda and the private Gosafe vans may be operating speed cameras. See the Map of Mobile Speed Cameras Here

Tipperary lags behind in Information Technology

The town of Tipperary is behind the rest of Ireland when it comes to Information Technolgy. Census 2006 figures showed that  just 11.4% of Tipperary households had broadband and 71.84% of households had no internet access at all. This is the highest percentage of any town in Ireland  (National average 51.7%)
Also – just 36.35% of households owned a personal computer  compared  to the national average of  53.5%.
The high proportion of rented accommodation might be one of the reasons for these figures.

Ten worst towns in Ireland for IT (with population over 1500)
Tipperary
Cashel
Ballyhaunis
Roscrea
Ballaghaderreen
Bunclody-Carrickduff
Ballyjamesduff
Castlerea
Kanturk
Enniscorthy

Rental Accommodation – Longford has the most

Towns with the most rented dwellings in Ireland:
Out of all the towns with a population over 1500 – these are the top 10 for rented occupation : (The average for the country is  28.11%)
Longford 47.26%
Ballaghaderreen  47.14 
Carrick-on-Shannon  45.67
Skibbereen  45.28
Galway City  43.63
Ballyhaunis  43.35
An Daingean  41.86
Cavan  40.74
New Ross  40.36
Gort  40.33

Most Popular Towns for Polish

20 Most popular towns for Poles in Ireland

People born in Poland but living in Ireland numbered 96042 at the last census in 2006.
Some Irish towns have higher percentages of Polish residents than others – these are the 20 with the highest percentages of Poles

Millstreet, Cork (14.17%)
Bunclody-Carrickduff, Carlow/Wexford (9.4%)
Ballinrobe, Mayo (8.81%)
Ballyjamesduff, Cavan (8.73%)
Tullow, Carlow (8.17%)
Kingscourt, Cavan (8.12%)
New Ross, Wexford/Kilkenny (8.10%)
Macroom, Cork (7.31%)
Killarney, Kerry (7.1%)
Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim/Roscommon (6.94%)
Portumna, Galway (6.82%)
Cahir, South Tipperary (6.72%)
Monaghan, Monaghan (6.34%)
Rathcormac, Cork (5.95%)
Oranmore, Galway (5.89%)
Kanturk, Cork (5.88%)
Longford, Longford (5.57%)
Ballyhaunis, Mayo (5.44%)
Clonee Village, Meath (5.25%)
Kilcock, Kildare (5.12%)

Top 20 Ethnically Diverse Towns

Ethnic Diversity in Ireland:
Immigration in Ireland has grown in the past decade – and the 2006 census provided figures on ethnic origins of residents. Ireland also has it’s own ethnic group – the Travellers and this category was included in the 2006 census for the first time.

These are the  20 towns with the highest percentage of non “White Irish” in Ireland (This includes “Other”, “Traveller”, “Black”, “Black Irish”, “Asian”, “Asian Irish” and “Other White”

Ballyhaunis, Mayo (45.93%)
Gort, Galway (39.2%)
Rathkeale, Limerick (31.76%)
Ballinrobe, Mayo (31.31%)
Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon (27.68%)
Clonee Village, Meath (27.5%)
Bunclody-Carrickduff,Carlow/Wexford (26.94%)
Monaghan, Monaghan (25.88%)
Ballyjamesduff, Cavan (24.85%)
Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim/Roscommon (24.66%)
Oldcastle, Meath (24.63%)
Longford, Longford (24.56%)
Cahir, South Tipperary (24.1%)
Kenmare, Kerry (23.11%)
Kinsale, Cork (22.17%)
Athenry, Galway (21.21%)
Roscommon, Roscommon (21.07%)
Ballybay, Monaghan (21.02%)
Cavan (20.53%)

If Travellers are taken out of the calculation – then the 20 most ethnically diverse towns are as follows: (Showing percentage of population that are not “White Irish” or ” White Irish Traveller”)

Ballyhaunis, Mayo 40.55
Gort, Galway 38.68
Clonee Village, Meath 27.50
Ballaghaderreen, Roscommon 26.49
Ballinrobe, Mayo 24.86
Ballyjamesduff, Cavan 24.85
Oldcastle, Meath 24.63
Monaghan, Monaghan 23.74
Kenmare, Kerry 23.12
Cahir, South Tipperary 22.92
Kinsale, Cork 22.17
Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim/Roscommon 21.58
Ballybay, Monaghan 20.85
Roscommon, Roscommon 20.40
Longford, Longford 19.96
Oranmore, Galway 19.52
Cavan, Cavan 19.08
Carrickmacross, Monaghan 18.96
Millstreet, Cork 17.95
Swords, Fingal 17.81

Highest percentage of Travellers in Rathkeale

The village of Rathkeale in Limerick has the highest percentage of residents who identified themselves as Travellers in the 2006 census. Over a quarter of the village class themselves as travellers – 26.98% . (395 out of 1464).
The town with the next highest percentage of travellers is Bunclody / Carrickduff in Carlow – where 11.17% of residents had traveler ethnic backgrounds (202 out of 1808)Other towns with high proportions of Travellers :

Abbeyfeale, Limerick (9.36%)
Tuam, Galway (7.76%)
Ballinrobe, Mayo (6.45%)
Ballyhaunis, Mayo (5.38%)
Athenry, Galway (4.76%)
Longford, Longford (4.6%)
Birr, Offaly/North Tipperary 4.05%)
Charleville, Cork (3.55%)

Ballyhaunis – most Asian born

Ballyhaunis in Co. Mayo has the largest percntage of Asian born residents – based on census 2006 figures. Asian born make up 9.9% of the population of Ballyhaunis, Nearby  Ballaghaderreen has the next highest at 7.42%.