Ballyalla

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyalla, from 174 m² to 315,374 m² (31.54 ha, 77.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballyalla 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a Sunroom onto the existing dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2596

• 23 Dec 2024Conditional

  to extend the existing dwelling house to provide a granny flat and boiler house, alter the internal layout of the existing dwelling & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24434

• 25 Sept 2024N/a

  to construct a new dwelling house with wastewater treatment system, garage and all associated site works and services.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460458

• 22 Jun 2021Conditional

  for: 1. The provision of doors in lieu of windows at first floor level on the eastern gable, previously granted under planning permission P00/1926; 2. The Sunroom addition to the southern elevation; 3. The storage shed in the yard to the west of the main dwelling; 4. The new entrance to the public road and driveway within the site area and for PERMISSION to provide a balcony to the doors on the eastern gable at first floor level and all associated site and ancillary works at the above address

  Retention · Clare County Council, 21649

• 8 Mar 2021N/a

  to extend & Renovate the derelict house, install a waste treatment unit, create a new entrance onto the public road an all associated site and ancillary works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21205

• 21 Nov 2019Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19914

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Caherkinallia Wood 001024
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Goller 000048

Recorded monuments

• CL015-022 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture on the summit of a prominent hillock bounded by the Cooleen River to the W and S and a stream to the E, with excellent views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. An oval platform (15.75m N-S; 19.25m E-W; H 1m), enclosed by a low earth and stone bank from S to NW (Wth 1m; int. H 0.15m), and a level berm (Wth 4.5-5m) at NW and SE. A single course of stone facing (H 0.3m) is present intermittently along the outer edge of the platform. There is a subrectangular mound (CL015-022002-) near the centre of the interior and a C-shaped bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.1m) abutting the bank in the SW quadrant. Both may represent internal buildings. The following image has been uploaded: CL015-022001-_01.jpg View from SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 26 September 2022

• CL015-022002 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  In the NE quadrant of a ringfort (CL015-022001-), located in pasture on the summit of a prominent hillock bounded by the Cooleen River to the W and S and a stream to the E, with excellent views in all directions. A subrectangular earth and stone mound (4m N-S; 6m E-W; H 0.2-0.5m). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 26 September 2022

• CL015-024 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  In coarse marshy pasture on the summit of a prominent drumlin in a field of small drumlins c. 125m SE of the Cooleen River with clear views in all directions. Hachured on the 1840 and 1916 OS 6-inch maps. A bowl barrow (diam. c. 26m) comprising a mound (diam. 8.5m; H 1.55m), a flat-based fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D 0.6m), and a flat-topped outer bank (Wth 5.5m; ext. H c. 2m; int. H 0.6m). The monument is covered in gorse. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 26 September 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyalla, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballyalla, Ennis5 sales

Name

Ballyalla · Baile Uí Áille

Area

1,106,186 m² (110.62 ha, 273.34 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshanny, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Kilshanny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

136 people lived in 59 households in the Kilshanny electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughiska More, Caherkinallia, Caherlooskaun, Carrowduff, Carroweragh, Carrowkeel, Derreen, Tooreen

Placenames

Ballyalla 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.