Ballynew
Ballynew is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare.
- Area
- 124.2 ha
- 307 acres
- Land parcels
- 53
- registered freehold, median 2,879 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynew, from 52 m² to 180,629 m² (18.06 ha, 44.63 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballynew 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
26 Jan 2026Conditional
to alter the planning drawings granted under P22/1019 along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660032
10 May 2024Conditional
for the development of a domestic garage ancillary to dwelling house granted permission under planning reference P23/617 together with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 24154
8 Dec 2023Conditional
the development will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, new entrance at public road and upgraded access way along existing agricultural track together with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23617
10 Nov 2023N/a
for development which will consist of a dwelling house with proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 23566
9 Nov 2022Conditional
to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 221019
20 Dec 2021Conditional
to build a new Dwelling House, Garage, bore a well, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211352
9 Jul 2021Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, garage, waste water treatment system including all ancillary site services and works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21723
30 Oct 2020Conditional
the development will consist of the replacement of existing substandard dwelling with a new dwelling house and the replacement of existing septic tank with a proprietary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter together with ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20793
8 Jul 2020Conditional
to construct a dwellinghouse, shed, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all ancillary site development works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20460
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 Ballynew.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynew.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynew.
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 Ballynew, 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 Ballynew.
- 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 Ballynew with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynew
- Area
- 1,241,536 m² (124.15 ha, 306.79 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfarboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 422 people lived in 160 households in the Ballyvaskin electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Glendine North, Glendine South, Kilcorcoran, Leeds, Slievenalicka, Tooreen
- Placenames
- Ballynew 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.