Ballyportry North

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyportry North, from 496 m² to 384,368 m² (38.44 ha, 94.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyportry 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.

• 11 Sept 2025Conditional

  for the construction of a new slatted shed with calf creep area as well as all associated site works and ancillary services

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560558

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: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-077 Enclosure
  Description

  On the S-facing slope of a broad E-W ridge in pasture, offering wide views. Indicated on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map and hachured on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. This large overgrown subcircular enclosure (69m E-W; 60m N-S) is defined from ESE-S-SW by a possibly partly natural scarp (Wth c. 1-2m; H 1.2-2.2m), overlying rock outcrop at S where the scarp overlooks several derelict 18/19th-century houses. From SW-W-NW, the original enclosing bank is overlain by a later drystone wall (H 0.8-1m). A farm track (Wth 3.9m) runs inside it, and there is a grass-covered spread of stones (Wth 10.5m; H 0.3-0.5m) inside again, to E. The track continues S from the SW edge of the cashel. The collapsed remains of what was probably a later double-faced field wall (Wth 2m; H 0.6-0.8m) overlie the possible vestiges of the enclosing bank from NW-NE-ESE. In the NE quadrant of the heavily overgrown interior and abutting its perimeter, is a rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 22.4m NW-SE; 18.8m NE-SW) defined by a band of stone collapse (Wth 1.7m; H 0.8m) along the W and by a scarp (H 0.3-0.8m) along the S. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 August 2023

• CL017-079 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating reclaimed pasture with some nearby thickets of dense hazel. Depicted on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map as a ringfort - an enclosed subcircular area (est. diams. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 28m NE-SW) - and indicated on the OS 25-inch plan (1897) and Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. When inspected in 1999, no surface traces were visible. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 August 2023

• CL017-080 Enclosure
  Description

  On a S-facing slope in pasture. Depicted on the first edition (1842) of the OS map as a circular ringfort (est. diam. c. 28m) and hachured on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. When inspected in 1998, this levelled enclosure was not traceable at ground level. A later WNW-ESE running field wall overlay its N perimeter and a large spoil heap covered its NW edges. The enclosure’s perimeter from SE-S is visible in satellite imagery (MapGenie Imagery 2013-2018) as a faint curving grass-covered bank. A second levelled enclosure (CL017-081----) lies c. 110m to the SE Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 August 2023

• CL017-081 Enclosure
  Description

  Toward the bottom of a S-facing slope in pasture. Recorded on the first edition (1842) of the OS 6-inch map as an oval ringfort (est. diams. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW) but with only the south-western perimeter (SSE-S-WSW) indicated on the later OS 25-inch plan (1897) and on the Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map. When inspected in 1998, no visible surface traces were found. A second levelled enclosure (CL017-080----) lies c. 110m to the NW. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 22 August 2023

• CL017-083001 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pasture on the E side of a S-flowing stream, with hazel woods immediately to the W and Shandangan Lough c. 140m to the S. Noted by Ryan (1966-1967) and indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This fulacht fia (c. 8.5m E-W; c. 8m N-S) comprises a bush-covered, U-shaped bank (Wth 2.2-4.4m; int. H 0.4-0.5m; ext. H 0.4-1.1m) of burnt and broken stones which is open towards the S and which encloses a small central area (L 2m; Wth 2m). A second fulacht fia (CL017-083002-) lies c. 10m to the NE and a possible third (CL017-083005-) lies just to the W of the stream.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 15-10-2025

• CL017-083002 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pastureland on the E side of a S-flowing stream, with hazel woods immediately to the W and Shandangan Lough c. 140m to the S. Noted by Ryan (1966-1967) and indicated on Robinson’s map of the Burren (1977). This fulacht fia comprises a grass-covered oval mound (5.5m ENE-WSW; 2.5-3m NNW-SSE; max. H 0.6m) of burnt and broken stones. A low mound (diam. 3.5-4.5m; H 0.2m) two metres to the W appears to be related. A second fulacht fia (CL017-083001-) lies c. 10m to the SW and to its W, just across the stream, are the remains of a possible third (CL017-083005-).   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott    Date of upload: 15-10-2025

• CL017-083005 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In wet pastureland on the W side of a S-flowing stream, with hazel woods immediately to the W and Shandangan Lough c. 140m to the S. A small grass-covered mound (diam. 2.5m; H 0.5m) of burnt stone may be the remains of a fulacht fia. Two other fulachta fia (CL017-083001- and CL017-083002-) lie just across the stream to the E.   Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy   Date of upload: 15-10-2025

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

About 1 in 5 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 Ballyportry North.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyportry North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Ballyportry North · Baile Phoirt Ria Thuaidh

Area

1,843,765 m² (184.38 ha, 455.6 acres)

Civil parish

Killinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Corrofin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Corrofin electoral division: 1,362 people in 535 households; 72% of households own their home; 41% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyportry South, Coad, Commons South, Killeen, Laghtagoona, Shandangan

Placenames

Ballyportry 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.