# Ballyvergin, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Clooney (Tulla Ra), barony of Bunratty Upper, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Uí Mheirgín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,168,010 m² (116.8 ha, 288.62 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 24,963 m² (2.5 ha, 6.17 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Clooney (Tulla Ra), https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/clooney-tulla-ra.md - Barony: Bunratty Upper - Electoral division: Clooney, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 539 people lived in 179 households in the Clooney electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/7808 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30317 - Centre: latitude 52.879271, longitude -8.856728 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvergin, from 766 m² to 327,559 m² (32.76 ha, 80.94 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1516581: 327,559 m² (32.76 ha, 80.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516581.md - Parcel 1450138: 127,598 m² (12.76 ha, 31.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1450138.md - Parcel 1430730: 99,632 m² (9.96 ha, 24.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430730.md - Parcel 1430790: 74,925 m² (7.49 ha, 18.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430790.md - Parcel 1516590: 59,254 m² (5.93 ha, 14.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1516590.md - Parcel 1430799: 57,921 m² (5.79 ha, 14.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430799.md - Parcel 1483206: 54,238 m² (5.42 ha, 13.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483206.md - Parcel 1440031: 46,748 m² (4.67 ha, 11.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1440031.md - Parcel 1461709: 45,832 m² (4.58 ha, 11.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1461709.md - Parcel 5425156: 44,969 m² (4.5 ha, 11.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5425156.md - Parcel 1429867: 44,841 m² (4.48 ha, 11.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1429867.md - Parcel 1430849: 44,084 m² (4.41 ha, 10.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430849.md - Parcel 1442474: 30,168 m² (3.02 ha, 7.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442474.md - Parcel 1483875: 25,297 m² (2.53 ha, 6.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483875.md - Parcel 1481855: 24,630 m² (2.46 ha, 6.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481855.md - Parcel 1499473: 21,613 m² (2.16 ha, 5.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1499473.md - Parcel 1501050: 12,125 m² (1.21 ha, 3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501050.md - Parcel 1443088: 6,364 m² (0.64 ha, 1.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1443088.md - Parcel 5842225: 4,802 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5842225.md - Parcel 1482505: 2,755 m² (0.28 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1482505.md - Parcel 1464791: 2,541 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1464791.md - Parcel 1477539: 2,437 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1477539.md - Parcel 1515202: 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515202.md - Parcel 1515515: 1,537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1515515.md - Parcel 5003732: 1,527 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5003732.md - Parcel 1520403: 1,486 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1520403.md - Parcel 1430713: 1,252 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1430713.md - Parcel 1456142: 766 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1456142.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvergin in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 24 Nov 2020, Clare County Council 20884: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a dwelling house and garage, with effluent treatment system, and all associated site works, accessed by an existing entrance and private road. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/20884/0 - 26 Nov 2018, Clare County Council 18961: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to demolish existing substandard dwelling house and permission for the construction of a dwelling house, proprietary treatment system and upgrading of existing entrance including ancillary site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/18961/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvergin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL034-031: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL034-031----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvergin. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyvergin, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvergin. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvergin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvergin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvergin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyvergin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare: https://everytownland.com/clare.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballyvroghaun Eighter: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvroghaun-eighter.md - Carrahan: https://everytownland.com/clare/carrahan.md - Knockanoura: https://everytownland.com/clare/knockanoura-31589.md - Lassana: https://everytownland.com/clare/lassana.md - Rathclooney: https://everytownland.com/clare/rathclooney.md - Rylane: https://everytownland.com/clare/rylane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvergin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/ballyvergin