Ballyhinch
Ballyhinch is a townland in the civil parish of Clonrush, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 293.1 ha
- 724 acres
- Land parcels
- 73
- registered freehold, median 7,225 m² (0.72 ha, 1.79 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhinch, from 49 m² to 525,094 m² (52.51 ha, 129.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballyhinch 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
11 Oct 2024Conditional
to revise the site boundary outline for previously granted planning permission application reference 06/495 and retention planning reference 22/598 to their existing dwelling house, and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460499
5 Jul 2022Conditional
of the development which consists of a domestic garage together with all ancillary works
Retention · Clare County Council, 22598
1 Sept 2021Conditional
to complete partly erected dwellinghouse in accordance with plans previously approved under Planning Ref: 08/557, connect to existing septic tank and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21916
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: Slieve Aughty Mountains SPA 004168
Recorded monuments
- CL021-022001 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.
- CL021-022002 Kiln - lime
Description
Situated on a level platform on a SSE-facing slope, partly buried in soil, grass and fern. A rectangular stone structure (int. dims. 1.8m WSW-ENE; 1.5m SSE-NNW). One course of set stones (c. 0.4m x 0.5m; H c. 0.25m) remains visible at SW, SE and E and there is a gap (0.8m) at SSE. This may have been a limekiln as there are some blackened stones along the N side. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 11 July 2016
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhinch.
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 Ballyhinch, about 1 in 20 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 Ballyhinch.
- 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 Ballyhinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhinch
- Area
- 2,931,081 m² (293.11 ha, 724.29 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Drummaan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 651 people lived in 251 households in the Drummaan electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Boleynagoagh North, Cregg, Derrainy, Derroran East, Gortnascreeny
- Placenames
- Ballyhinch 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.