Ballynakillew
Townland in the civil parish of Clonrush, barony of Leitrim, Co. Clare
- Area
- 34.5 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 4,358 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakillew, from 166 m² to 127,020 m² (12.7 ha, 31.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 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 Ballynakillew 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
22 Mar 2023Conditional
for a 3 bay shed
Permission · Clare County Council, 23180
28 Sept 2021Refused
for a 3 bay shed
Permission · Clare County Council, 211031
8 Jun 2020Conditional
for development consisting of modification and first floor extension to the existing bungalow, replacement of existing septic tank and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20365
12 Oct 2018Conditional
for development which will consist of the modification and extension of the existing bungalow. The extension shall include three bay windows to the front of the existing bungalow, and the addition of a gym, WC and store at lower ground level. The application includes for the replacement of the existing septic tank with a new on-site secondary waste water treatment unit and packaged tertiary polishing filter, and includes for all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 18799
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
- Special Protection Area: Lough Derg (Shannon) SPA 004058
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Derg 000011
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynakillew.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakillew.
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 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 Ballynakillew.
- 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 Ballynakillew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakillew
- Area
- 344,863 m² (34.49 ha, 85.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonrush, and its townlands
- Barony
- Leitrim
- Electoral division
- Drummaan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Drummaan electoral division: 651 people in 251 households; 79% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 12% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinrooaun, Ballynamona, Meelick
- Placenames
- Ballynakillew 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.