Ballybran
Townland in the civil parish of Ogonnelloe, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Uí Bhroin
- Area
- 93 ha
- 230 acres
- Land parcels
- 50
- registered freehold, median 4,341 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
50 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybran, from 35 m² to 130,523 m² (13.05 ha, 32.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ogonelloe Settlement Plan, Clare · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Village Growth Area (General)
Ogonelloe Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
7 May 2026Conditional
to erect an extension to the south gable of existing house, raise the roof to enable proper ceiling height to existing first floor bedrooms, install a new effluent treatment system and Soil polishing filter to replace existing septic tank provide off road parking with entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660298
24 Jun 2025N/a
to erect an extension to the south gable of existing house raise the roof to enable proper ceiling height to existing first floor bedrooms, provide off road parking with entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560375
11 Dec 2024Conditional
to demolish existing house and erect a replacement house, and garage with overhead storage, connect to effluent treatment system already approved by planning ref P23600 and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460631
28 Nov 2023Conditional
for to extend existing dwelling house, erect a garage with overhead storage/hobby room, connect to existing services and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23600
17 Feb 2021Refused
to construct a 30 metre multi-user lattice tower telecommunications structure, carrying antenna and dishes enclosed within a 2.4 metre high palisade fence compound with associated ground equipment and associated site works including new access track
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21127
11 Dec 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of the change of use of the existing stable building to a residential dwelling house. The proposed development includes for the provision of an on-site waste water treatment system and percolation area including all ancillary works required to facilitate the development
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 181022
12 Nov 2018Conditional
to construct an extension comprising a class room, entrance lobby and toilets to the school, connect to existing services, and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18913
17 Sept 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage and wastewater treatment system
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18737
22 Nov 2017Conditional
for (a) RETENTION of agricultural machinery store and ancillary site works, and (b) RETENTION of stables buildings
Retention · Clare County Council, 17892
23 Jun 2017N/a
PERMISSION and RETENTION for the following: 1. Permission to convert existing redundant stables building to dwelling house; 2. Construction of single storey dwelling house to serve as retirement home for applicant's grandparents; 3. Construct agricultural farm machinery / feed store; 4. two no. wastewater treatment units and percolation areas including all ancillary site works and 5. RETENTION permission to RETAIN existing entrance leading to public road, all located at this address
Permission, 2 homes · Clare County Council, 17497
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballybran.
Recorded monuments
- CL037-009 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
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybran.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballybran.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballybran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybran · Baile Uí Bhroin
- Area
- 930,136 m² (93.01 ha, 229.84 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ogonnelloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Ogonnelloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ogonnelloe electoral division: 794 people in 268 households; 91% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyhurly, Caher, Carrowena, Islandcosgry, Rahena Beg
- Placenames
- Ballybran 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.