Ballycrighan

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycrighan, from 881 m² to 242,760 m² (24.28 ha, 59.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycrighan 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.

• 12 Mar 2026N/a

  to construct an entrance, dwellinghouse, shed, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660155

• 10 Mar 2026Conditional

  the development will consist of: Permission for conversion of the existing garage into a 1 no. single-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 42 sqm and will be located on the ground floor of the existing main residential care unit. RETENTION Permission for an already installed wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, including all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660142

• 3 Feb 2026N/a

  the development will consist of: Permission for conversion of the existing garage into a 1no. single-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 42 sqm and will be located on the ground floor of the existing main residential care unit. Retention Permission for an already installed wastewater treatment system and sand polishing filter, including all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2660045

• 2 Dec 2025N/a

  to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25370

• 20 Oct 2025N/a

  the development will consist of: Permission for conversion of the existing garage into a single-occupancy communal dwelling unit. Works include internal alterations to provide living, dining, and bathroom facilities for persons with intellectual or physical disabilities, along with modifications to external elevations and all associated site works. The proposed unit will have a gross floor area of 42 sqm and will be located on the ground floor of the existing main residential care unit

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560641

• 2 Jul 2025Conditional

  to construct dwelling house, advanced treatment system, widen existing entrance to public road and carry out ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25217

• 12 Jun 2023Conditional

  of a)modifications and extensions to private dwelinghouse / garage/ boiler house b)site boundaries / site layout as constructed c)PERMISSION to upgrade existing sewage treatment system along with all associated site works and services

  Retention · Clare County Council, 23338

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  to revise the plans previously granted under reference P21/1179, providing additional first floor area, dormers to the roof, adding a carport, changing the lean to roof to the gable to a flat roof and altering the fenestration & all other associated and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 22892

• 23 May 2022Conditional

  for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22455

• 21 Dec 2021N/a

  for the change of use of a section of an existing agricultural building to be used as a commercial unit

  Permission · Clare County Council, 211363

• 9 Nov 2021Conditional

  to (1) change the use of the Creamery Building to a Private Dwelling & Extend the building & all other associated site and ancillary works & (2) to RETAIN the Storage Shed to the rear of the Creamery Building

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211179

• 2 Mar 2021Conditional

  for development which will consist of alterations and an extension to the existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21184

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 Ballycrighan.

Recorded monuments

• CL034-079 Ringfort - cashel
  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.

• CL034-080 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.

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballycrighan.

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.

No address of the register names Ballycrighan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Ballycrighan · Baile Uí Chreacháin

Area

885,244 m² (88.52 ha, 218.75 acres)

Civil parish

Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Bunratty Upper

Electoral division

Spancelhill, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Spancelhill electoral division: 725 people in 248 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahershaughnessy, Clooney, Cranagher, Curraghmoghaun, Kilgobban, Moyriesk

Placenames

Ballycrighan 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.