Ballyheean

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheean, from 1,733 m² to 120,295 m² (12.03 ha, 29.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballyheean 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.

• 31 Mar 2023Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning P18/259 to build a new yoga and meditation studio to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 23197

• 10 Jan 2023Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P18/259 to build a new yoga and meditation studio to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 2310

• 3 Apr 2018Conditional

  to build a new yoga and meditation studio to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18259

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 Ballyheean.

Recorded monuments

• CL014-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a hilltop in rough, wet pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This mostly overgrown but well-preserved circular bivallate rath (int. diams. 43.5m N-S; 44m E-W; ext. dims. 79m E-W; 74m N-S) is defined by a substantial inner bank, a smaller outer bank and an intervening fosse. The steep-sided, round-topped inner bank (Wth 7-12m; int. H 1.15-2m; ext. H 2-3.1m) of earth and some stone has a possible entrance gap (Wth 4.5m at base; 12m at top) at ENE. There are modern livestock gaps at N, S and W. The wet fosse has a consistently flat base (Wth c. 3m at base), while its upper width (4-7m) varies with the profile of the banks inside and outside. The outer bank (Wth c. 2.5m; av. int. H 1.25m; av. ext. H 1m) has been levelled at NE. The damp interior is slightly higher in the centre than the perimeter and shows signs of former cultivation. Later field boundaries radiate off the monument at N, E, S and W.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 6-10-2025

• CL014-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing pasture slope, overlooked by higher ground to the N. Identified in 1998 by Markus Casey. This subcircular rath (27m E-W; 25.5m N-S) is defined by a low scarp (H 0.15-0.3m), and a marshy outer fosse (Wth 2.25-4.5m; D 0.15m below external ground surface) from NE-S-W. Traces of a second, outer bank (Wth 2-4m; H 0.1m) survive from S-W. The raised interior is slightly dished. Some 15m to the E, the N-S running townland boundary wall between Ballyheean and Ballyvorda (to the E) angles sharply E to avoid crossing the monument.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott   Date of upload: 6-10-2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyheean, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ballyheean

Area

556,462 m² (55.65 ha, 137.5 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrehy, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Liscannor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Liscannor electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnahea, Ballycotteen South, Ballyea, Ballyvorda, Ballyvrislaun, Beaghy, Lislorkan South

Placenames

Ballyheean 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.