Ballard

154 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballard, from 23 m² to 197,888 m² (19.79 ha, 48.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballard 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.

• 17 Nov 2025Conditional

  to construct (i) cubicles shed with loose area and slatted tanks (ii) soiled water slatted tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 2560705

• 22 Jun 2020Conditional

  for the following: 1 To RETAIN rear extension to existing dwelling plus part extension of existing attic, including rooflights to front elevation. 2 For PERMISSION to upgrade existing foul sewer treatment system, plus all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Clare County Council, 20411

• 6 Jul 2017Conditional

  to construct an agricultural development which will consist of an extension to the existing slatted house and associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17530

• 6 Apr 2017Conditional

  to construct an Agricultural Machinery Shed plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 17248

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Kilkee Reefs SAC 002264
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Farrihy Lough 000200

Recorded monuments

• CL046-004 Promontory fort - coastal
  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.

• CL046-005 Signal tower
  Description

  Situated on a flat terrace adjacent to steep vertical cliffs (c. 77m OD) at the edge of Ballard Bay. Located on ground that slopes down gently away to the S with commanding views between the NE and S. The surrounding area consists of enclosed fertile pastureland with fields defined by rubble stone walls. Site located c. 21m S of coastline at its nearest point. The adjacent towers in the signal tower chain are found at Mutton Island (CL038-071----), located c. 10.3kms to the NE, and at Knocknagharoon (CL065-006----), located c. 14.3kms to the SW. Site of signal tower at Ballard is located c. 824 m E\ENE from a coastal promontory fort (CL045-033----) located at the tip of Leamcangher Point, c. 1.25kms NE of another coastal promontory fort (CL046-004-----) located at Donegal Point, and c. 5.3kms W\WSW of the remains of Doonmore Castle (CL046-019002-). The site of an early nineteenth-century (c. 1804-5) originally two-storey square-plan signal tower (approx. ext. dims. 5.85m NE-SW x 5.85m NW-SE), built with roughly coursed rubble stone masonry. The signal station has been demolished (apparently by dynamite in 1960s), and is only represented by a spread of rubble (max H c. 1.2m). There are no architectural features visible. A surviving historic photograph of the site, dating from the late-nineteenth century, indicates that this structure conformed to the typical form found at extant signal tower sites. Kerrigan established that the signal mast had been erected and the signal tower completed by 1805 (Kerrigan 1995, 278). The signal tower is located within a trapezoidal-shaped enclosure (ext. dims. 56m NW-SE x 34m NE-SW) defined by a rubble stone wall (max H internally c. 2.3m). Entrance to the enclosure is provided through a gateway to the SE side (located close to the centre of this side of the boundary) defined by two rubble stone gate piers (Wth of entrance c. 2m). Most of the SW side and parts of the NE side of the boundary wall has been levelled or collapsed. The interior of the enclosure slopes slightly to the SE. There is a small roofless rectangular building (ext. dims c. 11m SE-NW x c. 3m SW-NE) located in the E corner of the boundary walls. This structure is aligned NW-SE and contains a chimneystack and a fireplace at the NW end. The building faces SW with blocked windows located on either side of the damaged doorway. There is also a blocked window on the NE wall. The Ordnance Survey first ed. six-inch map, surveyed 1840-2, shows the trapezoidal enclosure with the position of the signal tower marked by a trigonometry symbol, and a rectangular building in the E corner. The site is identified as ’Telegraph Station.’ The Ordnance Survey second and third ed. six-inch maps, surveyed 1893-7 and 1913-8 respectively, show the same details but the site is identified as ‘Baltard Tower (in Ruins)’. The signal tower was part of a system of over 80 signal stations constructed by the British Board of Ordnance in the first decade of the nineteenth century to warn of the approach of a French invasion fleet. Signalling between sites was accomplished using a naval signal post. The system formed a continuous chain from Dublin Bay running clockwise all the way around the coast to Malin Head in County Donegal. It was abandoned by the mid-1810s when the threat of a French invasion diminished (Kerrigan 1995, 157-66). Compiled by: Stuart Rathbone Uploaded on: 14/07/22

• CL046-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

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• CL046-007 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.

• CL046-033 Promontory fort - coastal
  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.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballard, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballard.

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

Name

Ballard · An Baile Ard

Area

4,026,552 m² (402.66 ha, 994.98 acres)

Civil parish

Killard, and its townlands

Barony

Ibrickan

Electoral division

Killard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

294 people lived in 121 households in the Killard electoral division. 81% of households owned their home. 34% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 24% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Farrihy, Glascloon

Placenames

Ballard 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.