Ballymahony

10 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymahony, from 836 m² to 767,976 m² (76.8 ha, 189.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Ballymahony 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 Ballymahony 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Moneen Mountain SAC 000054

Recorded monuments

• CL009-001021 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On the gentle S-facing slope of a plateau, in an area of pasture and karst limestone, within a large field system (CL009-001001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). This cashel (ext. dims. 30m E–W; 27m N–S) is roughly D-shaped in plan with a straight N side. It is defined by a drystone wall (H 0.4-8m). A later field boundary has been built on top of it but the outer wall-face of the cashel is visible all round. The wall, including spread, varies in width from 2-3m but is 5-6m wide at N. There is a modern entrance gap at SW. Three depressions (each c. 5–6m ENE–WSW; c. 4m NNW–SSE) have been cut into the N sector of the interior and there is clearance cairn just NE of the centre. Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 October 2021

• CL009-001024 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture and karst limestone, within a large multiperiod field system (CL009-001001-). Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A circular cashel (28.7m N–S; 27.7m E–W) defined by a double-faced drystone wall (Wth including spread 2m; ext. H c. 1m; int. H 0.4–0.5m). A later field wall has been built along the line of the outer wall-face. A gap at NW is modern. Centrally located within the interior are two C-shaped grassed-over mounds of spoil (H 0.5–0.7; S mound int. L 8m E–W; 5m N–S; N mound int. L 5m E–W; 3m N–S) opening to the W. Inside the wall at E there is a hollow sunken area (diam. of base c. 4.5m; D c. 0.6m). This does not appear to be a collapsed souterrain but rather is probably the result of digging. Several modern field walls radiate from the cashel at NE, ESE, SSW and W. Compiled by: Conn Herriott and Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 October 2021

• CL009-012 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In rough pasture near the top of a SW-facing slope, overlooking a valley to the S. Listed as ‘Potential site (air photo)’ in the RMP (1996). On inspection it proved to be a ring-barrow defined by an uneven subcircular central platform (11.3m NE–SW; 10.1m NW–SE; H 0.3–0.5m) surrounded by a fosse (Wth 4.7–5.7m; D 0.3m–0.5m), and the remains of an outer bank (Wth 3.3m; H 0.3m) from W to NW. From S to W the fosse and outer bank are cut by a drainage ditch and field bank; elsewhere no entrance or causeway are visible. The interior slopes down from the NE to SW. There is a small grass-covered mound or rise (H 0.2m) in the N part of the interior, which may be a pre-modern spoil heap. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 21 October 2021

• CL009-013002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on level ground in a multiperiod field system (CL009-013001-). Hachured as a raised circular area, clipped by a N-S running field boundary at E, and labelled ‘Kilballymahony Burial Gd. for Children’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and as ‘Kilballymahony Children’s Burial Ground’ on the 1920 ed. Listed as ‘Burial ground’ in the RMP (1996). Labelled ‘Cill Bhaile Uí Mhathgamhna’ on Robinson’s map (1977). The OS Letters (1839) suggest that this and another children’s burial ground (CL009-013005-) c. 745m to the ESE in neighbouring Ballymurphy townland were probably the sites of ‘small chapels of ease to the Parish Church’ (Comber 1997, 65) at Noughaval, c. 1.8km to the SE. A subrectangular enclosure (37.4m E–W; 31.9m N–S) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A later N-S running field boundary bisects it. The enclosing bank (Wth 2.4m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.1m) is more substantial to the E of the field wall; to the W of it, it is much lower (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4–0.8m). No visible surface trace of it survives from W to WNW. A gap (Wth 8m) in the N side, to the E of the field boundary, does not appear to be original. No grave-markers or any traces of burials are evident in the interior. In the W half there is a small mound (diam. 3.3m; H 0.4m). A later field boundary abuts the enclosure at SW. Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 October 2021

• CL009-014001 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  Situated 7m to the W of the rock-cut fosse at Binroe castle (CL009-014002-), at the S edge of the Ballymahony plateau, with ground falling steeply to the S and E. Listed as ‘Earthwork’ in the RMP (1996). A small building (18m NE–SW; c. 10m NW–SE) of which barely traceable stone wall footings survive. The SE wall and the S end of the SW wall are not extant. Given its orientation and size, this may be a 19th-century building which is indicated on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan (but not on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 October 2021

• CL009-014002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  On a high NE–SW prominence extending from the S edge of the Ballymahony plateau. Ground falls steeply to S and E, and less so to N. Depicted on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular area (diam. c. 15m) defined by a broken line and labelled ‘Site of Binroe Castle’. On the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map it is shown as a roughly circular hachured mound. Labelled ‘Caisleán na Binne Rua - Binroe Caste site (Ó Lochlainn)’ on Robinson’s map (1977), a name which is translated in the OS Letters (1839) as ‘Castle of the Red Pinnacle’ (Comber 1997, 61). Situated within the territory of the O’Loughlins, this castle may have been named as “Beaneoroe” in the list of 1574. However, there is some uncertainty around its ownership, and the castle appears to have changed hands among the O’Loughlins, O’Briens and O’Flanagans in the late 16th and early 17th centuries (Ua Cróinín and Breen 1997). The O’Briens retained it after the 1641 rebellion, leasing it to various tenants through to the mid-18th century (ibid.). The castle was still in existence in 1787, when it was shown on Pelham’s Grand Jury map; it was also included in Dutton’s survey of 1808. However, by 1837 Lewis (1837, vol. 2, 445) and by 1839 O’Donovan (Comber 1997, 61) recorded it as a ruin. Westropp (1915, 49) described ‘a heap of fallen masonry, once Binroe castle, near a bad, but ancient road, to Cahermacnaughten.’ A grass-covered rubble mound (20.7m E–W; c. 10m N–S; H 0.8–c. 5m) with an E–W ridge (L 6.5m) at its top. Immediately to the SW of the rubble mound there is a rock-cut fosse (L 20.3m; Wth 3–7m; D 1.2–1.7m), extending NW–SE through the ridge of high ground between this promontory and the plateau. There are three architectural fragments within the fosse: a square-cut and hammer-dressed stone (L 0.6m; Wth 0.3m; D 0.2m); a jambstone (H 0.3m; Wth 0.4m; D c. 0.3m) with chamfer (Wth 0.14m) and rebate (Wth 0.1m; D 0.07m) and a curved stone (L 0.6–0.84m; Wth 0.17m; D 0.1–0.15m) from the head of a doorway. Foundations of buildings lie at the E base of the mound (CL009-014004-) and 7m to the W of the fosse (CL009-014001-). The following item has been uploaded: CL009-014002-_01.pdf Details from Risteárd Ua Cróinín and Martin Breen, The Castles and Tower-houses of Co. Clare (unpublished report). Uploaded courtesy of R. Ua Cróinín and M. Breen. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 October 2021

• CL009-014004 House - indeterminate date
  Description

  At the E base of the foundations of Binroe Castle (CL009-014002-). The foundations of a house (int. dims. 6.5m E–W; 7.4m N–S) defined by grass-covered collapsed walls (Wth 1.5–2.5m; H. c. 0.5–1.3m). There is no visible doorway or other feature. From this structure’s NW corner the footing of another wall extends W (L 4m) before turning N (est. L c. 10m) and fading out. The foundations of another house of indeterminate date (CL009-014001-) lie immediately W of the castle mound. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 October 2021

• CL009-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the SE edge of a plateau in wet, boggy land, with wide views from NE to SW. Hachured on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). A subcircular rath (29.4m N–S; 25.8m E–W; max. ext. dims. 49m E–W; 44.2m N–S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 5–7m; int. H 0.2–0.5m; ext. H 1–1.2m), a slight berm (Wth 1.5–4m) and a probable fosse, as indicated by a boggy, rush-filled band (Wth 2.5–4m). The interior is considerably higher (c. 0.5m) than the exterior. The bank at the W (Wth 7m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) has been pushed in and is more massive than elsewhere and at the S it is almost an external scarp (H. 0.8m). A later L-shaped, grass-covered depression (Wth at top 4m; Wth at base 2.2m; D 0.08m) extends from the SSW edge of the interior to the centre (L c. 14m), then turns E (L c. 8.5m). The spoil from this appears to have been deposited in the SE quadrant of the interior, where the ground level is higher and less even. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 27 October 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballymahony, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymahony.

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

Name

Ballymahony · Baile Uí Mhathúna

Area

1,827,293 m² (182.73 ha, 451.53 acres)

Civil parish

Noughaval, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Noughaval, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurphy, Cahermaan, Cahermacnaghten, Cohy, Cragnarooan, Knockavoarheen, Lissylisheen

Placenames

Ballymahony 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.