Ballard

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 64 m² to 154,405 m² (15.44 ha, 38.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballard 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballard in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: East Burren Complex SAC 001926
• Special Protection Area: Corofin Wetlands SPA 004220
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: East Burren Complex 001926

Recorded monuments

• CL017-045 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope in pasture. Hachured on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Also recorded on the intervening and larger scale OS 25-inch plan (1897) where it is recorded as a roughly circular area (est. diams. c. 30m N-S; c. 26m E-W) defined by a short length of bank at NE, a scarp from NE-E-SSW and a counterscap from SSW-NW-NE. A later field boundary is shown running on the counterscarp between NW and NNE and may incorporate part of an earlier enclosing element. When inspected in 1999, no visible surface trace of the enclosing element from NNE-S-NW was visible, however subsurface archaeological deposits may survive intact. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• CL017-047 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  At the base of a low WNW-facing rock-face (H 0.85m) in level, overgrown karst. Indicated and named ‘Toberinneenboy’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This holy well comprises a rectangular hole (0.8m E-W; 0.6m N-S) in the exposed bedrock, with drystone walling (H 0.45m at W) on all sides except the E, and is partly obscured by vegetation. Kirby (2021) observed steps down to the water, the surface of which is 1m below ground level. Extending N from the well along the base of the rock-face is a cleft (Wth 01.m; D 0.5m). The well is partly enclosed by a rectangular area (1.3m N-S; 1m E-W) defined by rock outcrop to the W and a drystone wall at N, which contains an entrance gap (Wth 0.35m). When inspected in 1999, modern votive offerings were visible, including crockery, coins (1929-1978), a metal statue of St Martin de Porres, a metal crucifix and rosary beads. The cult of the Early Medieval saint ‘Iníon Baoith’ was prominent in this part of Clare (especially in Killinaboy) into the modern era, with seventeen holy wells dedicated to her according to the OS Parish Namebooks of the 1830s (Kirby 2021). The pattern day at this holy well is not known, but the feast day of Iníon Baoith was 29th December (ibid.). The water of this well was believed to cure sore eyes (ibid.). See attached image: CL017-047----_01 Looking W towards overgrown holy well (1999). Reference: Kirby, T. 2021 Tobar Iníon Baoith, Toberinneenboy, Ballard. The Clare Holy Wells Project. Available @ https://heritage.clareheritage.org/places/holy-wells/saint-macreehys-well-previously-tobarmacreagh-carran Accessed 15-9-2022 Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 20 July 2023

• CL017-225 Fulacht fia
  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 Ballard.

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 Ballard, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballard · An Baile Ard

Area

1,002,500 m² (100.25 ha, 247.72 acres)

Civil parish

Killinaboy, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Glenroe, the unit of the census

Neighbouring townlands

Aglish, Ballinphunta, Caherbullaun, Dabrian, Gortlecka, Rinroe, Turkenagh

Placenames

Ballard 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.