Ballynahinch
Townland in the civil parish of Kilnoe, barony of Tulla Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile na hInse
- Area
- 292.4 ha
- 723 acres
- Land parcels
- 77
- registered freehold, median 15,123 m² (1.51 ha, 3.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
77 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahinch, from 641 m² to 220,421 m² (22.04 ha, 54.47 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynahinch 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
25 Oct 2024Conditional
to erect a dwellinghouse and garage, entrance and driveway and install an effluent treatment system and percolation area filter and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460534
14 Oct 2024N/a
to erect a dwellinghouse and garage, entrance and driveway and install an effluent treatment system and percolation area filter and all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 2460503
13 Feb 2023Conditional
to demolish an existing on-site dwelling and shed, and to construct a replacement dwelling house, with new effluent treatment system accessed by an existing entrance and driveway from public road, all with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2374
15 Jul 2022Conditional
to build a new dwelling, garage, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22644
20 Jan 2022Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, bored well, waste water treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2223
24 May 2018Conditional
to extend the existing dwelling house
Permission · Clare County Council, 18428
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
- Natural Heritage Area: Loughanilloon Bog NHA 001020
Recorded monuments
- CL028-023 Hilltop 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.
- CL028-024 Linear earthwork
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.
- CL036-001001 Earthwork
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.
- CL036-001002 Castle - unclassified
Description
See attached document with 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. Date of upload: 12 December 2014
- CL036-003 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.
- CL036-006 Earthwork
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.
- CL036-048 Hilltop enclosure
Description
In wet pasture on the SW edge of a NE-SW ridge overlooking Ballynahinch Lough to WNW and Lough Bridget to S. Noted by Emmet Byrnes, Forest Service on Bing satellite imagery and on OS orthophotography. A suboval earthen platform (ext. dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 52m N-S: int. 50m E-W; 40m N-S) defined SE to NW by a low scarp (max. H 1m at S) almost imperceptible at N. A mature straight NNW-SSE field boundary extends along the E side. A possible entrance (Wth 1m) at W has a large stone on its E side. A fosse (Wth c. 5m) visible on satellite imagery is not visible at ground level. The walled garden of Ballynahinch House is c. 70m to the SW and the area around the enclosure is named ‘Cloonacullaun’ on the 1840 OS 6-inch map and ‘Garden Hill’ on the 1920 edition. Some possible tree rings are indicated NE of the enclosure but the enclosure itself is not indicated as a landscape feature. This monument was reported to the National Monuments Service by Séamus Ó Murchú. The following image has been uploaded: CL036-048----_01.jpg Enclosure visible on Digital Globe. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 16 November 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynahinch.
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
- About 1 in 10 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; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynahinch.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynahinch with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynahinch · Baile na hInse
- Area
- 2,923,856 m² (292.39 ha, 722.5 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilnoe, and its townlands
- Barony
- Tulla Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballynahinch, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynahinch electoral division: 252 people in 93 households; 89% of households own their home; 21% of homes were built since 2001; 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Annaghneal, Clogher, Drumminnanav, Kilnoe, Lisbarreen, Silvergrove
- Placenames
- Ballynahinch 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.