Bealcragga
Townland in the civil parish of Kilmaley, barony of Islands, Co. Clare; in Irish Béal Craige
- Area
- 351.9 ha
- 870 acres
- Land parcels
- 139
- registered freehold, median 5,322 m² (0.53 ha, 1.32 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
139 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bealcragga, from 25 m² to 421,893 m² (42.19 ha, 104.25 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 39 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
No zone of a development plan covers Bealcragga 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jun 2025Conditional
for development which will consist of the construction of a new farm entrance gate at the southern end of the site off Bealcragga, together with the construction of a new pitched roof barn on the southwestern side of the site for winter storage and the housing of farm machinery
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560363
5 Oct 2017Conditional
to RETAIN garage as constructed, and for PERMISSION for the following works:(A) Construct extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, and (B) Construct porch to front of the existing dwelling, all with associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17756
26 Jan 2017Conditional
to construct a ground floor extension to side of existing dwelling house, with all associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 1740
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 Bealcragga.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bealcragga.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bealcragga.
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 high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Bealcragga, Connolly9 sales
The townland
- Name
- Bealcragga · Béal Craige
- Area
- 3,518,954 m² (351.9 ha, 869.55 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilmaley, and its townlands
- Barony
- Islands
- Electoral division
- Killanniv, the unit of the census
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ailldavore, Derrynacarragh, Drumanure, Feighroe, Kilcolumb, Lehaknock, Reanagishagh
- Placenames
- Bealcragga on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, 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.