Ballycannan West
Ballycannan West is a townland in the civil parish of St. Munchins, barony of Bunratty Lower, Co. Clare. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Chanáin Thiar.
Parcel 1514144
- Area
- 152,860 m² (15.29 ha, 37.77 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 188 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
- Ballycannan West
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 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_925 (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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
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
- 128.3 ha
- 317 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 1,407 m²
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycannan West, from 178 m² to 384,480 m² (38.45 ha, 95.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Ballycannon North Settlement Plan, Clare · 18 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Buffer Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Ballycannon North Settlement Plan, Clare · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G1Open Space (Open space, park)
Ballycannon North Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Ballycannon North Settlement Plan, Clare · 0 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
12 Aug 2024Conditional
of a garage and storage shed, and all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460375
22 Feb 2024Conditional
of the construction of a detached garage, with all associated site works
Retention · Clare County Council, 2460
21 Sept 2018N/a
for development which will consist of quarrying an area consisting of 10 hectares located adjacent to the existing working quarry including extraction of rock by blasting means down to 150mOD; Extracted rock will be processed at the existing working quarry; Landscaping of the quarry during the operational phase and restoration of the quarry on completion of extraction; All associated ancillary facilities / works; The applicant is seeking a 16 year permission as part of the application. The application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report ( EIAR )
Permission · Clare County Council, 18751
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 Ballycannan West.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycannan West.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycannan West.
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 Ballycannan West, 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_925 (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
No address of the register names Ballycannan West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Clare.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycannan West · Baile Uí Chanáin Thiar
- Area
- 1,283,427 m² (128.34 ha, 317.14 acres)
- Civil parish
- St. Munchins, and its townlands
- Barony
- Bunratty Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballycannan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,041 people lived in 320 households in the Ballycannan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 13% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballycannan East, Ballycannan North, Ballycar North, Cappateemore East, Knockalisheen
- Placenames
- Ballycannan West 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.