Ballyvaskin North
Townland in the civil parish of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Bhaiscinn Thuaidh
- Area
- 194.1 ha
- 480 acres
- Land parcels
- 63
- registered freehold, median 5,658 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
63 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvaskin North, from 155 m² to 544,612 m² (54.46 ha, 134.58 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 Ballyvaskin 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
17 Feb 2022Conditional
of the following; a) the alterations to the existing dwelling house b) the garage/shed as constructed along with associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22144
15 Feb 2018Refused
to construct a new dwelling with an on-site wastewater treatment system, garage, new entrance and ancillary site works. Permission is also sought for a commercial shed to the rear of the site and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18115
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 Ballyvaskin North.
Recorded monuments
- CL023-039 Ringfort - rath
Description
Near the top of a hill in undulating fertile pasture with panoramic views. Hachured as a ringfort only on the 1840 OS 6-inch map. By the 1919 Cassini edition houses had been built at the site. A very low earthen bank was noted N of one of the houses on inspection in 1999 but this is c. 50m E of the location as shown on the 1st edition. Not visible at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 19 November 2025
- CL023-040 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.
- CL023-041 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.
- CL023-042 Barrow - ring-barrow
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 Ballyvaskin 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 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvaskin 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyvaskin North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvaskin North · Baile Bhaiscinn Thuaidh
- Area
- 1,940,857 m² (194.09 ha, 479.6 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfarboy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ibrickan
- Electoral division
- Ballyvaskin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyvaskin electoral division: 422 people in 160 households; 92% of households own their home; 37% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 22% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyvaskin South, Carrowkeel, Clooneybreen, Drummin, Kilfarboy, Toor
- Placenames
- Ballyvaskin 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.