# Ballyvorda, Co. Clare: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilmacrehy, barony of Corcomroe, Co. Clare. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 841,065 m² (84.11 ha, 207.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilmacrehy, https://everytownland.com/clare/parish/kilmacrehy.md - Barony: Corcomroe - Electoral division: Liscannor, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Clare, https://everytownland.com/clare.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/6778 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 30324 - Centre: latitude 52.95254, longitude -9.386795 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvorda, from 86 m² to 355,054 m² (35.51 ha, 87.74 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1483208: 355,054 m² (35.51 ha, 87.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483208.md - Parcel 1491476: 107,602 m² (10.76 ha, 26.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491476.md - Parcel 3242286: 77,038 m² (7.7 ha, 19.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3242286.md - Parcel 1435167: 67,807 m² (6.78 ha, 16.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1435167.md - Parcel 1503269: 52,760 m² (5.28 ha, 13.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1503269.md - Parcel 1481856: 49,863 m² (4.99 ha, 12.32 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1481856.md - Parcel 1460155: 42,576 m² (4.26 ha, 10.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1460155.md - Parcel 1501054: 40,479 m² (4.05 ha, 10 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1501054.md - Parcel 1486538: 4,575 m² (0.46 ha, 1.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1486538.md - Parcel 6042973: 3,684 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042973.md - Parcel 2446280: 3,681 m² (0.37 ha, 0.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2446280.md - Parcel 1434606: 3,476 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1434606.md - Parcel 4974043: 3,455 m² (0.35 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4974043.md - Parcel 1483876: 3,316 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1483876.md - Parcel 6042956: 3,213 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042956.md - Parcel 1438455: 3,093 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1438455.md - Parcel 1491092: 2,965 m² (0.3 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1491092.md - Parcel 3555012: 2,710 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3555012.md - Parcel 6042981: 2,587 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042981.md - Parcel 1442476: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1442476.md - Parcel 4896471: 2,125 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896471.md - Parcel 6042964: 1,728 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042964.md - Parcel 4896472: 1,589 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4896472.md - Parcel 1505729: 1,124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1505729.md - Parcel 6042945: 657 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042945.md - Parcel 6043061: 482 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043061.md - Parcel 1471724: 479 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1471724.md - Parcel 6042976: 465 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6042976.md - Parcel 6043040: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043040.md - Parcel 6043070: 185 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043070.md - Parcel 6043043: 86 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/6043043.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 4 Mar 2025, Clare County Council 2561: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. to construct a new dwelling house, install a wastewater treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561/0 - 3 Apr 2024, Clare County Council 24105: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to build a new dwelling, install a waste water treatment system & all other associated site and ancillary works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/24105/0 - 14 Jul 2023, Clare County Council 2360252: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360252/0 - 31 Mar 2023, Clare County Council 23197: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/23197/0 - 10 Jan 2023, Clare County Council 2310: Refused. Extension of duration. 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. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2310/0 - 18 Feb 2022, Clare County Council 22151: Refused. Permission, 1 home. to construct a private dwelling house with attached garage, installation of new waste-water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/22151/0 - 22 Sept 2021, Clare County Council 211006: Conditional. Permission. for development, the development consists of the construction of a slatted unit and associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/211006/0 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 Ballyvorda. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - CL015-145: Rock art, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CCL015-145----. 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 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 Ballyvorda. ## 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 Ballyvorda, 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 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 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/ballyvorda.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvorda.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyvorda.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyvorda 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) - Ardnahea: https://everytownland.com/clare/ardnahea.md - Ballyea: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyea-30161.md - Ballyheean: https://everytownland.com/clare/ballyheean.md - Caherycahill: https://everytownland.com/clare/caherycahill.md - Laghcloon: https://everytownland.com/clare/laghcloon.md - Laghvally: https://everytownland.com/clare/laghvally.md - Rannagh: https://everytownland.com/clare/rannagh-32032.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/ballyvorda - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/clare/ballyvorda