Ballykeel North

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykeel North, from 266 m² to 494,924 m² (49.49 ha, 122.3 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballykeel North 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballykeel North 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 the townland of Ballykeel North.

Recorded monuments

• CL009-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the top of a hill with wide views in all directions, the land falls most dramatically to S. Hachured and labelled ‘Drimneen Fort’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Marked and labelled ‘Drimneen Fort (Droimnín)’ on Robinson’s map (1977). Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This oval rath (max. dims. 42.7m NW-SE; 35m NE-SW) is defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4m; int. H 0.5-1.2m; ext. H 1-1.4m) from W to N to E, interrupted at NNW by an oval depression (8m NE-SW; 5m NW-SE) in which rushes are growing. From E to W to S, it is defined by a scarp (H 1-1.2m). Drystone walls (H 0.2-0.6m; Wth 0.4m) and associated stone spill overlie the perimeter, except from W to NNW. The interior slopes to the SE. Two gaps in the bank, one at W (Wth 1.6m), which is blocked by a drystone wall, and another at SE (Wth 5m) are not original features. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 25 May 2022

• CL009-176 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a hollow on a S-facing slope in rough pasture and rushes, with a flat boggy shelf immediately to the S and a shallow fold to the NW. This circular rath (22.8m E-W; c. 22.4m N-S) is defined from W to NE by a scarp (H 0.4m) and elsewhere intermittently by a bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.6m). The E side (L 15m) and S side are truncated by field drains and there are several quarry faces (max. H 1.5m) along the S perimeter. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 11 July 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballykeel North.

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.

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

Name

Ballykeel North

Area

2,390,280 m² (239.03 ha, 590.65 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfenora, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Kilfenora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfenora electoral division: 406 people in 165 households; 78% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 16% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 11% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyconnoe South, Ballygoonaun, Ballykeel South, Ballyshanny, Caherminnaun West, Cohy, Knockavoarheen, Roughan, Rusheen, Slievenabillog

Placenames

Ballykeel North 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.