Ballymackea More
Ballymackea More is a townland in the civil parish of Kilmurry(Kilrush Ra), barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhac Aodha Mór.
- Area
- 197 ha
- 487 acres
- Land parcels
- 59
- registered freehold, median 11,073 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
59 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackea More, from 67 m² to 228,574 m² (22.86 ha, 56.48 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 49 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 Ballymackea More 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
31 Jul 2026Refused
to revise house design & ground floor plan of Ref No P22/136 and to change applicant name as pertinent to condition No 2(a) of Ref No P22/136 to Thomas Darcy
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660491
12 Jun 2026N/a
to revise house elevations and ground floor plan of Ref P22/136
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660390
31 Dec 2025Conditional
to build an ancillary residential unit for the enjoyment of the occupants of the main dwelling house and all associated and ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 25409
30 Apr 2025Conditional
for development to extend existing livestock slatted unit with associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 25140
22 Mar 2023Conditional
of the detached garage and storage shed & all other associated site and ancillary works
Retention · Clare County Council, 23186
16 Feb 2022Conditional
to erect new dwelling house, garage, foul sewer treatment plant, percolation area and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22136
9 Feb 2022Conditional
for the development which will consist of a private garage and store c/w ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22112
7 Dec 2021N/a
to erect new dwelling house, garage, foul sewer treatment plant, percolation area and new site entrance
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211300
25 Jun 2021Conditional
to replace a 12 meter monopole with an 18 metre monopole tower carrying telecommunications and broadband equipment, together with associated equipment and cabinets enclosed within a 2.4m palisade fence compound with access track
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21668
22 Oct 2020Conditional
to extend existing livestock slatted unit with cubicles and associated ancillary siteworks
Permission · Clare County Council, 20778
3 Sept 2020Conditional
to RETAIN porch as constructed to front of existing dwelling and to RETAIN vehicular entrance servicing front of dwelling with associated side walls and piers as constructed
Retention · Clare County Council, 20612
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 Ballymackea More.
Recorded monuments
- CL038-014 Ringfort - rath
Description
On the S side towards the E end of a slight E-W ridge. Listed as 'enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (int. diam. 22m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a grass-covered earthen bank (at E: Wth 5.4m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.1m; at S: Wth 10m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.65m). There is no visible fosse or entrance. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 14 April 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballymackea More.
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 Ballymackea More, about 1 in 5 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 Ballymackea More.
- 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 Ballymackea More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymackea More · Baile Mhac Aodha Mór
- Area
- 1,970,151 m² (197.02 ha, 486.83 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
- Annagh, Ballymackea Beg, Knockanalban, Quilty East, Shandrum, Tromra East
- Placenames
- Ballymackea More 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.