Ballymackea Beg

124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackea Beg, from 8 m² to 174,126 m² (17.41 ha, 43.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 40 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 Ballymackea Beg 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.

• 15 Jul 2024Conditional

  for the following development (a) internal alterations to an existing cottage; (b) addition of a second floor; (c) construction of a side extesnion; (d) construction of a garage; (e) ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24228

• 1 Jul 2024N/a

  for the following development (a) internal changes to an existing cottage; (b) addition of a second floor; (c) construction of a side extension; (d) construction of a garage; (e) ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 24215

• 8 Feb 2024Conditional

  of the existing rear extension and porch to west of the dwelling house with all necessary ancillary services

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2439

• 21 Sept 2021Conditional

  for development to demolish section of existing agricultural building and to construct livestock slatted unit plus a cubicle shed with associated ancillary site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21989

• 9 Sept 2021Conditional

  for a new entrance, construction of a dwelling with garage, a wastewater treatment system and ancillary works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 21955

• 2 Oct 2020Conditional

  to 1. Construct a cubicle house for cows with ancillary scrapers. 2. Construct a new milking complex. 3. Demolish old hay shed and old milking complex.

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20718

• 30 Jul 2020Conditional

  for development of a private domestic garage with associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 20521

• 14 Feb 2019Conditional

  to alter vehicular entrance as per that granted under Planning Ref P05786, including associated ancillary site works at front boundary

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19101

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 Ballymackea Beg.

Recorded monuments

• CL038-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In a low-lying position on the N bank of a stream. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A trivallate ringfort comprising a circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 27m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5.6-7m; int. H 0.6m at ENE to 1.5m at WSW; ext. H 1.4m generally to 2.8m at WSW) which is separated by a fosse (Wth of base 3.5-5m; D 0.6-0.8m) from a central bank (Wth 4-7.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.7m) N-W. A second fosse (Wth of base 1.2m) separates the central bank from an outer bank (Wth 5m; ext. H 0.25m) N-SE. There is a causeway (Wth 4m; H 0.6m) across the outer fosse and a blocked entrance (Wth 2m) in the central bank at SE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April 2020

• CL038-017 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a low E-W ridge. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 22m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3-4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.3m) with some internal facing stones at E. There is no visible fosse, and an entrance (Wth 1.8m) at WNW may be original. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April 2020

• CL038-018 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the N-facing slope of a slight E-W ridge. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). An oval grass-covered area (diam. 23m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a low bank (Wth 6-8m; int. H 0.15m; max. ext. H 0.5m) S-WNW and a scarp (max. H 0.8m) WNW-N. There is no visible fosse or entrance. The perimeter at E has been removed by building a N-S wall and a modern house is built c. 10m E of that. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 15 April 2020

• CL038-019 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Towards the W end of an E-W ridge. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular scrub-covered area (diam. c. 30m) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 7.5-8m; int. H 0.6-1.2m; ext. H 2-2.2m) separated by a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of base 3-3.4m; ext. D 1-1.6m) from an outer bank (Wth 4-5.5m; ext. H 0.3m) N-S which is incorporated into a field bank (Wth 4.2-5.4m; int. H 1.6-1.8m; ext. H 1-1.5m) elsewehere. The original entrance was not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymackea Beg, 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 Ballymackea Beg.

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 Ballymackea Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Ballymackea Beg · Baile Mhac Aodha Beag

Area

2,589,277 m² (258.93 ha, 639.82 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Ibrickan

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

838 people lived in 333 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 76% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 19% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymackea More, Carrowlagan, Doonogan, Finnor More, Knockanalban, Shandrum

Placenames

Ballymackea Beg 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.