Ballytarsna

58 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballytarsna, from 12 m² to 247,223 m² (24.72 ha, 61.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballytarsna 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.

• 7 Jun 2024Conditional

  of the extension to the existing dwelling and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Clare County Council, 24179

• 17 Jan 2024Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 248

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 Ballytarsna.

Recorded monuments

• CL008-094 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on top of a rise in hilly poorly drained pasture scrubland and rushes. Hachured on the both first edition (1842) and later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map where it is depicted as a raised, oval area (est. diams. c. 30m NW-SE; c. 26m NE-SW). The site of the monument has been criss-crossed with deep drainage ditches and no visible surface trace survives. Visible, surrounded by forestry, in aerial imagery (Map Genie Imagery, 2005-2012). See attachments: • CL008-094----_01.jpg Aerial view of site from N (Markus Casey, 1998) • CL008-094----_02.jpg Aerial view of site on Map Genie Imagery (2005-2012) Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 2 December 2022

• CL008-096 Enclosure
  Description

  On a low but prominent hillock in rough pasture, marsh and scrub, with extensive views except where impeded by higher ground to NNE. Hachured and labelled 'Ballytarsna Fort' on the first edition (1942) and later, Cassini edition (1920) of the OS 6-inch map, both of which also record a natural spring c. 10m to the N of the monument. No visible surfaces traces of this enclosure, a probable rath, survive. However, the oval-shaped hillock (28m NW-SE; 14m SE-NW; H 2-5m) is surrounded by a broad, dense band (Wth 10-15m) of rushes and reeds, which may be evidence of an infilled outer fosse. On the hillock's round-topped summit is an oval-shaped depression (8m E-W; 5m N-S; D 1m) which is partly overgrown at E, and part of the hillock's overgrown SE edge has been dug away. See attachment: CL008-096----_01 View of monument from S. Summary by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 2 December 2022

• CL015-029 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a hilltop in hilly marshy pasture with clear views. Hachured on the 1840 OS 6-inch map; not depicted on the 1916 ed. OS 6-inch map. A ring-barrow (22m E-W; 21.5m N-S) comprising a central mound (13m E-W; 13.9m N-S; H c. 2m) with a slight dip at its centre (2.5m E-W; 3.75m N-S), encircled by a berm which is widest at the W (Wth 5m) narrowing towards the E (Wth 1.5m). The mound is composed of earth with only occasional stones visible. The berm is covered in rushes, while the mound is free of excess vegetation. A bowl-barrow (CL015-026----) lies on another hilltop c. 360m to the NW. The following image has been uploaded: CL015-029----_01.jpg View of barrow from SE Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 3 July 2023

• CL015-147 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a SE-facing slope in pasture. An oval area (c. 40m NW-SE; c. 32m NE-SW) defined by a low bank or scarp and visible on OSi MapGenie orthophotography (2013-2018).  Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2025

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballytarsna, 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 Ballytarsna.

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

Name

Ballytarsna

Area

1,654,833 m² (165.48 ha, 408.92 acres)

Civil parish

Kilshanny, and its townlands

Barony

Corcomroe

Electoral division

Smithstown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

161 people lived in 60 households in the Smithstown electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Crosscornaun, Gortnaboul, Porsoon, Smithstown, Tooreen

Placenames

Ballytarsna 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.