Ballyvelaghan

102 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvelaghan, from 31 m² to 258,509 m² (25.85 ha, 63.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• O2Cluster (General)
  New Quay Cluster, Clare · 44 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Jul 2026Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660484

• 29 Jun 2026Conditional

  for (1) The Retention of the partial refurbishment of the existing cottage, previously granted under Pl. Ref. No. 21/149 which has now expired, and permission to complete the works. (2) The Retention of the foundations of the new extension, previously granted under Pl. Ref. No. 21/149 which has now expired, and PERMISSION to complete the construction works of the extension with an additional mezzanine storage area and all associated site services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660418

• 12 May 2026N/a

  for the following (A) To renovate and refurbish the existing dwelling to include removal of the front porch, removal of the attached cowshed, removal of the existing roof structure and construct a new roof structure. (B) To construct extensions and alterations to the existing dwelling suitable for use as a family dwelling. (C) Discontinuation of the existing sub-standard foul treatment system and construction of a new wastewater treatment system and a soil polishing filter to serve the proposed extended dwelling. (D) All associated and ancillary site works to include a new vehicular entrance, connection to the existing public watermains and to retain and protect the existing stone boundary walls

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660307

• 27 Jan 2025Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560030

• 13 Sept 2024Conditional

  to construct an entrance, dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460441

• 25 Jul 2024N/a

  to construct an entrance, dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460346

• 27 Mar 2024Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage, and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24100

• 24 Oct 2023Refused

  to construct an entrance, dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter together with all associated site development works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360447

• 21 Feb 2023Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission for P17/787 to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Extension of duration, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2392

• 3 Feb 2022Conditional

  of extension to rear of existing dwelling house and retention of alterations to existing dwelling house and permission for the construction of an extension to front of existing dwelling house

  Retention · Clare County Council, 2291

• 22 Feb 2021Conditional

  for refurbishment of existing cottage and new extension to rear of cottage, revised vehicular entrance and driveway, proprietary waste water treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 21149

• 25 Sept 2020Conditional

  to RETAIN alterations to dwelling house, garage/shed and front boundary wall/entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20681

• 30 Dec 2019Conditional

  for additions to existing cottage, including the restoration of the ruin to the west of the existing cottage, the restoration of the ruin to the east of the existing cottage, a proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 191018

• 26 Nov 2019Conditional

  the development will consist of (a) demolition of existing lean-to at west end of house (b) construction of new extension (c) various minor modifications to other elevations

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19923

• 4 Nov 2019N/a

  for additions to existing cottage, a proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19848

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwelling house, garage, sewage treatment unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19489

• 13 Sept 2018Conditional

  for RETENTION permission for the existing shed at "Number 27". The shed is made of galvanised steel (H-262, L-508, W-290) and will continue to be used to house a mains water softening system and for domestic storage purposes and will be screened on both North and South ends by planting.

  Retention · Clare County Council, 18727

• 24 May 2018Conditional

  to alter the front elevation of the house by the installation of a corner bay window

  Permission · Clare County Council, 18424

• 12 Oct 2017Conditional

  to construct a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste water treatment system along with ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17787

• 11 May 2017Conditional

  to construct a new house with proprietary waste treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 17353

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: Galway Bay Complex SAC 000268
• Special Protection Area: Inner Galway Bay SPA 004031
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galway Bay Complex 000268

Recorded monuments

• CL003-005 Leacht cuimhne
  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.

• CL003-006 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On the W end of a low E–W ridge surrounded by meadowland. Hachured and named ‘Parkmore fort’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios Páirc Mhóir’ on Robinson’s map (1977). A poorly preserved subcircular bivallate rath (int. dims. 33m E–W; 32.4m N–S crest to crest) defined by a low, narrow and generally round-topped inner bank (int. H 0.3–0.8m; W 0.6–1.8m crest to crest), a fosse (D 1.4–1.9m from base to crest of inner bank; Wth 5.9–12.4 from crest to crest; D 0.8–1.9m from base to crest of outer bank) and an outer bank (Wth c. 5.5m from inner crest to ext. base), only traceable from NW–SW. The original entrance is just N of E. It survives as a gap (Wth 3.8m) through the inner bank and a corresponding causeway across the fosse. There is no remnant of the outer bank at the entrance. A second gap (Wth 2.9m) occurs in the inner bank just E of S. Westropp (1911) thought this a potential ‘sally-port’. However, there is no corresponding gap or causeway across the fosse, and it may simply be a result of more recent disturbance. The W side of the inner bank is disturbed by a badger sett and a later field wall is built against the outer face of the outer bank, along the N, E and S sides. An inaccessible souterrain (CL003-006002-) lies inside, c. 8.6m NW of centre. The place-name ‘Pháirc’ denotes ‘a large cleared area associated with an important residential site’ (McInerney 2014a, 167) and Parkmore fort is reputed to have served as the ‘ceann áit’ and ‘house of hospitality’ of the Uí Dhálaigh learned family (McInerney 2014a, 165–9; 2014b, 22). The Uí Dhálaigh traced their descent to the Uí Dhálaigh poets of Meath that established various branches throughout Ireland McInerney 2014a, 165). It may have been through a Cistercian connection, via Boyle in Co. Roscommon, that they came to Finvarra (McInerney 2014a, 167). It is clear they also had a school in or near Parkmore. One early 17th-century reference described it as ‘wealthy and coloured white’ (ibid.). Robinson’s map (1977) marks it on the coast, near a leacht cuimhne (CL003-005----), a monument ascribed to the bardic poet ‘Donncha Mór Ó Dálaigh’ (d. 1244), who tradition says settled at Finavarra. Various references do establish the Uí Dhálaigh were settled there by at least the mid-14th century (McInerney 2014a, 167–8). Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-006002 Souterrain
  Description

  Within Parkmore ringfort (CL003-006002-), c. 8.6m NW of centre. The ringfort is hachured and named ‘Parkmore fort’ on the 1842 and 1915 eds. of the OS 6-inch maps and named ‘Lios Páirc Mhóir’ on Robinson’s map (1977). The souterrain is only indicated on the 1915 map, where it is named ‘Cave’. All that is visible now is an entrance or creep marked by a lintel (traceable Wth 0.95m; T 0.15m; depth of sod cover above lintel 0.1m) supported on either side by drystone walling, spanning an ope (Wth 0.5m) and a probable E–W passage or chamber visible above ground as a low grass-covered mound (L 4.5m E–W; Wth 1.7m; H 0.3m). In the mid-1800s the souterrain was accessible and Cooke (1851, 295–6) recorded it as having three chambers connected by creeps with vertical rising and descending creeps, as follows: ‘opening… about the centre of the fort. The first gallery… runs in a south-westerly direction from the entrance. It is twenty-six feet long, six feet high to the ceiling, and the same number of feet in breadth. The side walls are roughly formed of large stones, rudely, yet substantially put together; and the roof is made of immense flags. At the end of the first gallery is a passage… about five feet in length, but only three feet and a-half high, by two feet wide. The floor of this passage is on a level with that of the gallery, already mentioned. In order to pass through this confined communication, one is obliged to crawl on hands and knees. When, by this inconvenient kind of locomotion, you arrive at the end of the passage, you find it terminated by a wall built right across its breadth. The only way by which to advance farther is by ascending through a square hole… overhead, the breadth of the side of which is somewhat less than that of the passage, it being only one foot nine inches. On emerging through the opening… you find yourself in the little chamber, which is no more than seven feet long by five and a-half feet broad, and only four feet high. If you would hence proceed farther you must descend through the square opening …and creep from thence as before through another low and narrow passage, also five feet long by three and a-half feet high, and two feet wide. This last-mentioned passage brings you to another gallery… which runs at right angles to the gallery before described. It is fourteen feet long by nine and a-half feet wide, and six feet high. Opposite to this passage, …another passage… leads, as a kind of sally-port to the exterior of the inner rampart of the fort. The last-mentioned passage is five feet long by two feet wide, and four and a-half feet high. The flag, which was placed outside against this aperture, was four feet square. Thus, from whichever end of the souterrain its inhabitant might be pursued, he was enabled to make a fatal resistance. Flags which fitted into cells, stopped the holes… in the passages; and their upper surfaces being even with the floor of the little apartment, a stranger would have much delay and difficulty in discovering the apertures they covered’. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-014 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in improved mixed meadow and pastureland, c. 100m N of Ballyvelaghan Turlough. Hachured as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but not marked on the 1915 ed. No visible trace of the monument survives at ground level. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 15 December 2020

• CL003-015 Mound
  Description

  Marked only on the 1915 ed. of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured feature at the NE angle of a rectangular field. It is situated on a level landscape. This is a rectangular mound of sand and gravel (dims 21m N-S; 2.2m E-W; H 1.8m) that is known locally to be the remainder of material brought in for the construction of the Villa Marina Constabulary Barracks c. 80m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 April, 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ballyvelaghan National School, school, 1860–1865 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached cruciform-plan national school, dated 1861, comprising four-bay block flanked by three-bay gabled breakfronts entrance blocks. Now in use as house. Hipped and pitched artificial slate roofs with cut-stone copings and chimneystacks. Replacement ridge crestings and rainwater goods. Cut-limestone walls with plinth and inscribed plaque. Cut-stone sills and lintels to replacement windows. Replacement timber panelled doors. Detached single-bay single-storey rubble stone-built lean-to outbuilding. Rubble stone-built boundary walls with cut-stone piers having pyramidal cappings.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyvelaghan, 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvelaghan.

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.

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

Name

Ballyvelaghan · Baile Uí Mhaolacháin

Area

1,280,190 m² (128.02 ha, 316.34 acres)

Civil parish

Abbey, and its townlands

Barony

Burren

Electoral division

Abbey, the unit of the census

Census 2022

525 people lived in 212 households in the Abbey electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cartron, Finavarra Demesne, Mortyclogh, Munnia, Newquay

Placenames

Ballyvelaghan 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.