Ballyheefy
Ballyheefy is a townland in the civil parish of Ogonnelloe, barony of Tulla Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Thífe.
- Area
- 101.5 ha
- 251 acres
- Land parcels
- 45
- registered freehold, median 8,345 m² (0.83 ha, 2.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyheefy, from 38 m² to 137,505 m² (13.75 ha, 33.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 27 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 Ballyheefy 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 Jul 2025Conditional
to erect a private dwellinghouse, garage, install an effluent treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560448
3 Jul 2025Conditional
to erect an extension to existing dwelling house, install an effluent system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560410
22 Dec 2020Conditional
to erect/convert existing farm building to dwelling house, install an effluent treatment system and polishing filter and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 201000
8 Sept 2020Refused
the development consists of 1. The demolition of an existing structure. 2. Construction of replacement dwelling, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20624
17 Jul 2017Conditional
to RETAIN dormer window erected to the rear of dwellinghouse and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 17544
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 Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyheefy.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyheefy.
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 Ballyheefy, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyheefy.
- 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 Ballyheefy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyheefy · Baile Uí Thífe
- Area
- 1,015,045 m² (101.5 ha, 250.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ogonnelloe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Lower
- Electoral division
- Ogonnelloe, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 794 people lived in 268 households in the Ogonnelloe electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybroghan, Ballylaghnan, Carrowbaun, Carrownakilly, Rahena More
- Placenames
- Ballyheefy 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.