Ballycullen
Ballycullen is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfinaghta, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Béal an Chuilinn.
- Area
- 121.4 ha
- 300 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 6,046 m² (0.6 ha, 1.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycullen, from 250 m² to 157,800 m² (15.78 ha, 38.99 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballycullen 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
23 Jan 2024Conditional
to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, new entrance from public road, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2412
23 Aug 2023N/a
to RETAIN 18 number existing stables with storage facilities, alterations to building to comply with current requirements of building regulations
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360326
15 Aug 2023Conditional
for development which will consist of 1) A new vehicular entrance and splay to the site. 2) A new single storey with mezzanine dwelling house of 243sq. m and garage of 63.2sq. m. 3) Installation of a new sewage treatment system and percolation area to EPA standards. 4. All ancillary site works associated with drainage and landscape works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23440
17 May 2023Refused
of one number apartment for residential use following alterations and one number ancilliary apartment for use of staff employed at the stables following alterations.
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360156
17 Apr 2023N/a
to RETAIN one number apartment for residential use following alterations and one number ancillary apartment for use of staff employed at the stables following alterations
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360117
14 Jun 2021Conditional
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, 21614
11 Dec 2019Conditional
for the construction of an extension and alterations to a dwelling house, and the construction of a garage, proprietary waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19968
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 Ballycullen.
Recorded monuments
- CL043-106 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Date of upload: 16 December 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycullen.
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 Ballycullen, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycullen.
- 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 Ballycullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycullen · Béal an Chuilinn
- Area
- 1,213,659 m² (121.37 ha, 299.9 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinaghta, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Castlecrine, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 495 people lived in 160 households in the Castlecrine electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvorgal Beg, Ballyvorgal South, Castlecrine, Castlelake, Cloghoolia, Coolycasey
- Placenames
- Ballycullen 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.