Ballyknock

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknock, from 732 m² to 215,925 m² (21.59 ha, 53.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 8 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 24 Apr 2026Unconditional

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268004

• 10 Apr 2026N/a

  to carry out the following development: N85 National Road VRS (Vehicle Restraint System) Installations in the townlands of Mweelagarraun, Knockatemple, Ballyknock, Kilnamona, Co. Clare consisting of: • Installation of 3 No. vehicle restraint systems, totalling the installation of 630m of vehicle restraint system comprising of: - safety barriers with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier transitions with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) - safety barrier terminals with ground anchor support systems (driven or concrete) • The Removal of 100m of existing vehicle restraint systems. • Alterations to ground levels to accommodate the development. • All ancillary site works to include vegetation and tree removal. In accordance with the Habitats Directive, an Appropriate Assessment Screening has been carried out on the project. It has been concluded that the project is not predicted to result in any likely significant effects on any European Site(s) within the zone of influence of the proposed project, either alone or in combination with any other plans and, accordingly, an Appropriate Assessment is not required.

  Permission · Clare County Council, 268003

• 10 Mar 2022Refused

  to construct a dwelling house with wastewater treatment system and associated ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 22220

• 20 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct a non-commercial indoor horse arena with storage area and associated ancillary siteworks

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19487

• 23 Nov 2018Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling, the installation of a waste water treatment plant and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 18948

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 Ballyknock.

Recorded monuments

• CL033-005 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a low hill. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A circular grass-covered area (diam. 29.3m N-S; 27.3m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m at S) NE-SW and a scarp (H 0.6m at W to 1.4m at N) elsewhere. There is no visible fosse but there is a ramp entrance at SE which may be recent. It is overlain by an E-W stone wall, the N part being on a pitch and putt course. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 13 April 2016

• CL033-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on top of a hillock. Listed as 'Enclosure' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised circular grass-covered area (diam. 34.4m E-W; 32.7m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.7-0.8m generally to 1.2m at E), except SW-N where there is a drystone wall with some coniferous trees growing outside it. There is no visible fosse, but there are ramp entrances at NNE (Wth 6m) and SSW (Wth 3m), both of which are used as modern entrances. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 27 April 2016

• CL033-199 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On top of a small drumlin in pasture. A circular platform (diam. c. 45m) defined by a scarp. Visible on Google Earth (Imagery date: 19 Jan 2020). Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 July 2023

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyknock, 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 Ballyknock.

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

Name

Ballyknock · Baile na gCnoc

Area

840,751 m² (84.08 ha, 207.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnamona, and its townlands

Barony

Inchiquin

Electoral division

Kilnamona, the unit of the census

Census 2022

959 people lived in 318 households in the Kilnamona electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Croaghaun, Croaghaun, Islandgar, Kilnamona, Knockatemple, Mweelagarraun, Rushaun, Tullassa

Placenames

Ballyknock 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.