Ballyveskil
Townland in the civil parish of Clareabbey, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Baile Uí Mheiscill
- Area
- 163 ha
- 403 acres
- Land parcels
- 90
- registered freehold, median 2,805 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- O2
- Cluster
- Planning
- 21
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
90 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyveskil, from 43 m² to 168,965 m² (16.9 ha, 41.75 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 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
- O2Cluster (General)
Ballyveskil / Teermaclane Cluster, Clare · 27 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - O2Cluster (General)
Buncraggy Cluster, Clare · 3 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
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 Jun 2026Refused
of the use of a commercial yard for parking the applicant’s public service vehicles and staff cars, RETENTION permission for a workshop to service the applicant’s vehicles and RETENTION of the entrance and ancillary works for a period of 5 years
Retention · Clare County Council, 2660381
28 May 2026N/a
for the Construction of a Storey & Half Style House, Garage, Vehicular Entrance & Proprietary Waste Treatment Plant, including all ancillary site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2660344
21 Aug 2025Conditional
of a single-storey pitched-roof storage shed to the rear of the existing dwelling
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560513
3 Jul 2025Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage complete with a new entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560406
24 Apr 2025Refused
to construct a new dwelling house, new entrance, private garage and install a new wastewater treatment system along with all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2560211
1 Feb 2024Refused
of an existing commercial shed building and permission is sought for a new permeable surfaced vehicle parking area, ancillary access road, alterations to the existing site entrance and all associated site works and services.
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460037
24 Jan 2024Conditional
for the construction of a new dwelling house and garage, complete with a new entrance, sewage treatment system and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2460019
8 Sept 2023Conditional
for the following works: to replace the twin/movable modular toilet units with temporary modular units to include toilet and changing rooms units
Permission · Clare County Council, 23487
6 Sept 2023Conditional
of the existing dwelling house, stable block and associated facilities as constructed on site including all ancillary services and works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 23481
26 Jul 2023Conditional
of extension to the rear of the dwelling as well as retention of additional windows to the original dwelling
Retention · Clare County Council, 2360277
22 Sept 2022Conditional
to construct an agricultural slatted/machinery shed with ancillary slurry storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 22855
12 Mar 2021Conditional
to construct a silage base and a slatted unit with an underground slurry storage tank for housing livestock
Permission · Clare County Council, 21220
15 Jan 2021Conditional
for the construction of a shared vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment plant with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2120
6 Aug 2020Conditional
for the construction of a dwelling house, garage and proprietary waste treatment plant and to utilise existing entrance and roadway to access site including upgrades to same and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20541
24 Mar 2020Conditional
to construct a pre-school building to the rear of existing dwelling house. Connect to services. Relocate existing septic tank and soak away. Provide public parking and signage and carry out all ancillary site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 20206
23 Oct 2019Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P14-800 to construct dwelling house, garage, treatment system, new entrance to public road and ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 19812
23 Sept 2019Refused
to RETAIN the shed, RETAIN and reposition two mobile homes, construct a cottage with wastewater treatment system and associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19736
1 Aug 2019Conditional
to install a twin temporary / movable modular toilet unit with effluent storage tank and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 19623
11 Jun 2018Conditional
to 1. Erect Average 2.4m High Weld Mesh Fence to site perimeter and revise existing entrance configuration with associated site works and 2. to RETAIN existing movable dressing rooms
Permission · Clare County Council, 18479
18 May 2018Unconditional
to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P 13-323 for construction of a dwelling house, garage and waste water treatment system
Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 18406
23 Mar 2017Conditional
to demolish the existing stable block and construct an attached garage to the dwelling house previously granted planning permission ( Ref P16-450 ), including all ancillary services and site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17211
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 Ballyveskil.
Recorded monuments
- CL041-122 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.
- CL041-123 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 Ballyveskil.
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 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_505 (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
- Ballyveskil, Tiermaclane5 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyveskil · Baile Uí Mheiscill
- Area
- 1,629,534 m² (162.95 ha, 402.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clareabbey, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Killone, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Killone electoral division: 629 people in 211 households; 91% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyea, Buncraggy, Feagh, Islandavanna Upper (Intake), Newhall, Teermaclane
- Placenames
- Ballyveskil 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.