Ballyortla North
Townland in the civil parish of Doora, barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Órlaithe Thuaidh
- Area
- 44.3 ha
- 110 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 9,091 m² (0.91 ha, 2.25 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyortla North, from 896 m² to 192,822 m² (19.28 ha, 47.65 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballyortla North 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
10 Sept 2025Conditional
permission consequent on the grant of outline permission ref: P21/1323 to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment system and carry out ancillary site works
Permission consequent, 1 home · Clare County Council, 25288
23 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct a new dwelling house, private garage, site entrance, and on-site wastewater treatment system along with all other associated site works and services
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211392
14 Dec 2021Conditional
to construct dwelling house, garage, and treatment system and carry out ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 211323
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 Ballyortla North.
Recorded monuments
- CL034-065 Ringfort - cashel
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.
- CL034-072 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.
- CL034-073 Ringfort - cashel
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.
- CL034-074 Ringfort - rath
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.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyortla North.
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 low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_637 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyortla North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyortla North · Baile Órlaithe Thuaidh
- Area
- 443,461 m² (44.35 ha, 109.58 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doora, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Upper
- Electoral division
- Spancelhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Spancelhill electoral division: 725 people in 248 households; 93% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyortla South, Creggaun, Dooneen, Kilfeilim, Muckinish
- Placenames
- Ballyortla North 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.