Ballyartney
Ballyartney is a townland in the civil parish of Killofin, barony of Clonderalaw, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Athairne.
- Area
- 161.4 ha
- 399 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 7,630 m² (0.76 ha, 1.89 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyartney, from 19 m² to 397,669 m² (39.77 ha, 98.27 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyartney 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 May 2025Conditional
for the construction of an extension to the rear and front of an existing dwelling house along with alterations to the existing house and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560287
31 Mar 2023Conditional
for development in the townlands of Ballyartney, Ballygeery East, Ballygeery West, Cloonkerry West, Cullenagh, KilKerin, Killofin, Knockphutteen and Lakyle North, Co Clare. The proposed development will include; (1) An extension of the existing Kilkerin Point 220 kV Line Cable Interface Mast (LCIM) compound, to facilitate new electrical equipment for the connection of two new 220 kV cable circuits, including: (a) A new control cabin (approximately 13.4sqm floor area by 3.5m high, which includes 0.85m ground clearance) and 2 no. parking spaces; (b) Associated 220 kV electrical equipment including, cable sealing ends, insulators, overhead conductors, surge arrestors and lightning masts measuring 15m high (tallest compound structure); (c) 220 kV underground cabling from the associated underground transition pits to the cable sealing end equipment; palisade fencing (approximately 2.6m in height, up to 3.5m in height, including anti-climb device) and gates; and associated landscaping. The development will also comprise; (2) A new fibre optic cable measuring an approximate length of 8.9km routed between Kilkerin Point LCIM compound (townland of Lakyle North) and Prospect 220 kV substation (townland of Ballygeery West); (3) Decommissioning of existing 220 kV electrical equipment, security fencing and gate at Kilkerin Point 220 kV compound; and (4) All ancillary site development works including site preparation works, site clearance and levelling, hardstanding, internal access tracks and temporary construction compound. This planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Assessment (NIS)
Permission · Clare County Council, 23195
2 Mar 2022Conditional
to construct an extension to the rear of an existing dwelling house along with alterations to the existing house and ancillary works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22185
3 Sept 2020Conditional
for development to extend existing livestock slatted unit with cubicles and manure pit with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 20611
19 Jul 2017Conditional
to construct an extension incorporating a sports/general purpose hall to the existing clubhouse in lieu of previous extension granted under Planning permission reference No. P14-74
Permission · Clare County Council, 17554
18 May 2017N/a
for a change of design of the extension to the clubhouse previously granted under Planning Permission Reference no. P14-74
Permission · Clare County Council, 17372
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Clonderalaw Bay 000027
Recorded monuments
- CL068-020 House - 16th/17th century
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.
- CL068-055 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL068-056 Enclosure
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
- Ballyartney House, farm house, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached double-pile three-bay two-storey farmhouse with dormer attic, built c. 1800, possibly incorporating fabric of earlier building, c. 1680. Pitched slate roofs with roughcast rendered chimneystacks and cut-stone gable copings. Remains of roughcast and lime render to rubble stone walls. Paired and tripartite timber sliding sash windows with fluted engaged columns having decorative capitals forming mullions. Segmental-arched opening with timber pilaster doorcase, fanlight, sidelights and timber panelled door. Timber panelled interior shutters. Detached four-bay single-storey outbuilding with integral carriageway. Cut-stone and cast-iron piers with wrought-iron gates.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyartney, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyartney.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyartney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyartney · Baile Uí Athairne
- Area
- 1,613,989 m² (161.4 ha, 398.83 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killofin, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Electoral division
- Coolmeen, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 266 people lived in 91 households in the Coolmeen electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballina, Ballygeery East, Ballygeery West, Cullenagh, Moyfadda
- Placenames
- Ballyartney 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.