Ballyhickey
Townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Tulla Ra), barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Uí Icí
Parcel 5284477
- Area
- 1,401 m²
- Buildings
- 3 buildings touch it, 289 m² on the ground
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyhickey
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 156.2 ha
- 386 acres
- Land parcels
- 80
- registered freehold, median 4,360 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
80 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhickey, from 16 m² to 115,610 m² (11.56 ha, 28.57 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhickey 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
2 Dec 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system, a bored well and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560749
30 Jun 2025Conditional
to demolish existing sunroom to side of existing dwelling, make changes to the layout and elevations of the dwelling, construct extensions to sides and porch to front of the dwelling, use part of the dwelling as a granny flat, and extend the existing percolation, all with associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 25214
4 Jun 2025N/a
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system, a bored well and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560325
12 Apr 2023Refused
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23214
7 Jun 2022N/a
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22501
7 Feb 2022Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a dwelling house, garage, a proprietary waste water treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2299
20 May 2021Conditional
to alter the position, orientation and layout of the hurling wall which was previously granted under Planning Reference No. P20/79
Permission · Clare County Council, 21496
16 Sept 2020Conditional
for development consists of the construction of a silage slab and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20645
21 Jul 2020Conditional
for development which will consist of 1. Demolish existing dressing room, toilet and storage buildings. 2. Construction of a new building comprising of dressing rooms, meeting room, gymnasium, tea room, small shop for sale of club gear, medical room, referees changing rooms and all ancillary areas. 3. Construction of a new separate equipment store. 4. Decommission existing septic tank and install a new proprietary waste water treatment system. 5 All ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20495
13 Feb 2020Conditional
to carry out the following works. The proposed works will involve the following: 1. Construction of new vehicular entrance. 2. Construction of new Hardstand area along with associated site works for Vehicular overflow car park. 3. Construction of new hurling wall. 4. Associated ancillary works associated with the proposed development.
Permission · Clare County Council, 2079
28 Feb 2019Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, proprietary treatment system and the utilisation and upgrading of existing entrance including ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19143
1 Jun 2018Conditional
to alter the site boundary on the east side of the site, and for RETENTION permission for alterations to the site entrance and the site boundaries on the north and west sides of the site, from that approved under Planning Permission, Planning Register Reference P01-1560
Permission · Clare County Council, 18456
24 Apr 2017N/a
for the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter, well and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17307
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 Ballyhickey.
Recorded monuments
- CL034-134 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.
- CL034-135 Designed landscape - tree-ring
Description
Listed as 'Enclosure' in the RMP (1996). Indicated as an enclosure with trees on the 1842 and 1921 eds. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a gentle S and SW-facing slope. A subcircular area (int. dims. 33m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a narrow wall spread (Wth 1.2-2m; H 0.5-0.8m) which is partly collapsed. There is no visible entrance or internal features, but there are ash trees growing on the perimeter with hazel in the interior. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 July 2016
- CL034-136 Enclosure - large 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.
- CL034-137001 Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Description
See attached document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961) Ballyhickey wedge tomb is a national monument in state care, no. 484. CL034-137001-_01.pdf Date of upload: 30 December 2011
- CL034-137002 Standing stone
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.
- CL034-202 Fulacht fia
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.
- CL034-203 Field system
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.
- CL034-203002 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.
- CL034-203003 Mound
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 Ballyhickey.
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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballyhickey.
- 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 Ballyhickey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhickey · Baile Uí Icí
- Area
- 1,561,866 m² (156.19 ha, 385.95 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clooney (Tulla Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Clooney, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Clooney electoral division: 539 people in 179 households; 91% of households own their home; 40% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Clooney, Corbally, Craggataska, Creevagh More, Drim, Keevagh, Knocknagoug, Moyriesk, Quinville North
- Placenames
- Ballyhickey 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.