Ballyvorda

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvorda, from 86 m² to 355,054 m² (35.51 ha, 87.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvorda 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.

• 4 Mar 2025Conditional

  to construct a new dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2561

• 3 Apr 2024Refused

  to build a new dwelling, install a waste water treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 24105

• 14 Jul 2023Conditional

  to construct a private dwelling house with detached garage, new site entrance, installation of new wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 2360252

• 31 Mar 2023Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning P18/259 to build a new yoga and meditation studio to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 23197

• 10 Jan 2023Refused

  to Extend the Appropriate Period of Planning Permission P18/259 to build a new yoga and meditation studio to the rear of existing dwelling house and all associated site and ancillary works

  Extension of duration · Clare County Council, 2310

• 18 Feb 2022Refused

  to construct a private dwelling house with attached garage, installation of new waste-water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22151

• 22 Sept 2021Conditional

  for development, the development consists of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 211006

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvorda.

Recorded monuments

• CL015-145 Rock art
  Description

  Situated on a raised area of outcropping rock in pasture, close to a townland boundary. A subtriangular earthfast stone (L 1m N-S; Wth 0.25-0.65m; H 0.6-0.85m) with cup and circle motifs on the top, E and S faces. The rock is covered in lichen and moss but the carvings are mostly in good condition. They are deeply incised into the stone creating a pronounced three-dimensional effect with motif’s draped across the edge between the top and the E face. The top has two cup motifs and 6 cup and circle motifs (diams. 0.15-0.2m), the E face has 7 cup and circle motifs (diam. 0.15m) and the S face has 2 definite cup and circle motifs (diam. 0.15m), one possible circle and some possible ‘pock marks’. (pers. comm. Melanie McQuade, 19 December 2016) Compiled by: Mary Tunney with information supplied by Melanie McQuade, Forest Service. Date of upload: 19 December 2016

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyvorda, about 1 in 10 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.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballyvorda with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.

Name

Ballyvorda

Area

841,065 m² (84.11 ha, 207.83 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmacrehy, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Liscannor, the unit of the census

Census 2022

446 people lived in 171 households in the Liscannor electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 44% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnahea, Ballyea, Ballyheean, Caherycahill, Laghcloon, Laghvally, Rannagh

Placenames

Ballyvorda 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.