Ballyclare
Ballyclare is a townland in the civil parish of Castlerickard, barony of Moyfenrath Upper, Co. Meath.
Parcel 146775
- Area
- 8,107 m² (0.81 ha, 2 acres)
- Buildings
- 2 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 286 m².
- Zoning
- P5 RA - Rural Area (Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied)) The objective
- Townland
- Ballyclare
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel 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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2489 (ZIP).
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. 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.
- 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
- 8
- 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 as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), 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
11 Sept 2026N/a
the development will consist of the construction of a single storey dwelling, a detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2661138
14 Oct 2025Conditional
the development will consist of the construction of a two storey dwelling, detached domestic garage, a domestic wastewater disposal system, new site entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission, 1 home · Meath County Council, 2561105
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyclare, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_2489 (ZIP).
- 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.
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
- 2,247 people lived in 694 households in the Castlerickard electoral division. 85% of households owned 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.