Ballyduff More
Ballyduff More is a townland in the civil parish of Inagh, barony of Inchiquin, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is An Baile Dubh Mór.
Parcel 1503224
- Area
- 4,917 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Buildings
- 5 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 480 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyduff More
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 moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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
- 205.2 ha
- 507 acres
- Land parcels
- 33
- registered freehold, median 9,203 m² (0.92 ha, 2.27 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyduff More, from 1,149 m² to 559,933 m² (55.99 ha, 138.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyduff More 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Dec 2025Conditional
to replace the existing water supply reservoir tank with a new water supply reservoir tank of increased capacity
Permission · Clare County Council, 2560798
4 Dec 2019Conditional
for a detached private shed constructed to the rear of an existing dwelling house, with dual access from both the dwelling and an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 19945
9 Sept 2019Conditional
to construct a new forest road with bell mouthed entrance to facilitate timber harvesting, haulage operations and associated site works to existing forestry lands
Permission, 1 home · Clare County Council, 19709
28 Sept 2017Conditional
for development which consists of the construction of a Slatted Unit and associated site works
Permission · Clare County Council, 17740
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 Ballyduff More.
Recorded monuments
- CL032-005 Ringfort - rath
Description
Listed as ‘Enclosure’ in the RMP (1996). Hachured on the OS 1840 6-inch map and hachured and named ‘Ballyduff Fort’ on the 1919 OS 6-inch map. Situated on a S-facing slope near the summit of a prominent hill in an area of cleared and drained fertile pasture with excellent views. The area has been cleared and the enclosure almost levelled. A circular flat platform (diam. 25m N-S) remains defined by a shallow earthen scarp (H 0.6m) with a berm (Wth c. 7m) along its perimeter (diam. including berm 40m N-S). A large fort is remembered locally. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 12 July 2016
- CL032-006 Ringfort - rath
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.
- CL032-066 Quarry
Description
Not listed in the SMR (1992) or in the RMP (1996). A possible circular enclosure is visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP, CL, 205, 27-8). On inspection in 2002 this was found to be a natural rise with no banks or fosses and a wide band of rushes around the base. There was a quarry at the centre. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 November 2014
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyduff More.
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 Ballyduff More, 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 Ballyduff More.
- 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
No address of the register names Ballyduff More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyduff More · An Baile Dubh Mór
- Area
- 2,051,531 m² (205.15 ha, 506.94 acres)
- Civil parish
- Inagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Inchiquin
- Electoral division
- Ballyea, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 781 people lived in 296 households in the Ballyea electoral division. 80% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ahasla, Ballyasheea, Clooncaurha, Knockacaurhin, Leckaun, Maghera
- Placenames
- Ballyduff More 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.