Ballyclare
Townland in the civil parish of Castlerickard, barony of Moyfenrath Upper, Co. Meath
- Area
- 188.7 ha
- 466 acres
- Land parcels
- 47
- registered freehold, median 3,112 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
47 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyclare, from 84 m² to 506,900 m² (50.69 ha, 125.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 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
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027, Meath · 75 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
8 Aug 2022Conditional
the development will consist of proposed detached domestic garage to side of existing dwelling and all associated works
Permission · Meath County Council, 221042
28 Jan 2022Conditional
a detached two storey type dwelling, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2298
4 Sept 2020Conditional
construction of extension to rear of dwelling and demolition of sunroom to make way for extension
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA201221
20 Nov 2017Conditional
a four bedroom two storey dwelling, installation of a septic tank and intermittent soil polishing filter, new entrance and all associated services, service connections, landscape and site development work. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, TA171344
31 Aug 2017Conditional
renovation and extension of existing house including demolition of an existing extension and domestic sheds at the rear/side of the house, construction of a two storey extension with single storey elements to the rear/side of the house, renovation of the existing house, installation of a new domestic waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, TA171008
11 Aug 2017N/a
the development will consist of renovation and extension of existing house including demolition of an existing extension and domestic sheds at the rear/side of the house, construction of a two storey extension, with single storey elements, to the rear/side of the house, renovation of the existing house, installation of a new domestic waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, TA170932
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 Ballyclare.
Recorded monuments
- ME041-017 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
Located on a slight rise in a level landscape. This is depicted on the 1836 and 1912 editions of the OS 6-inch map as a large enclosure and described as a ‘Fort’ on the former. It is a large subcircular grass-covered and slightly domed (H 1m) area (dims c. 90m E-W; c. 75m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (at ESE: Wth 4m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.4m), and an outer fosse or ditch (at ESE: Wth of top 4m; ext. D 0.5m; at WNW: Wth of top 9m; int. D 1.5m; ext. D 0.4m) W-N-E. The interior is cut by a NE-SW field bank and drain SE of the centre, and this field bank and the perimeter around the SE part of the enclosure are covered in bushes. An original entrance is not identified. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revision: 9 August 2019 Amended:24 March 2023
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyclare.
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 10 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_2489 (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
- Ballyclare, Longwood6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballyclare
- Area
- 1,886,720 m² (188.67 ha, 466.22 acres)
- Civil parish
- Castlerickard, and its townlands
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Upper
- Electoral division
- Castlerickard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Castlerickard electoral division: 2,247 people in 694 households; 85% of households own their home; 58% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballin, Ballinderry, Blackditch, Brackanrainey, Castlerickard, Clonmowley, Derrinlig, Longwood
- Placenames
- Ballyclare 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.