Ballyclare
Townland in the civil parish of Cloontuskert, barony of Ballintober South, Co. Roscommon; in Irish Baile an Chláir
Parcel 679586
- Area
- 38,118 m² (3.81 ha, 9.42 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- 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
- Ballyclare
Planning applications on this parcel
22 Jan 2024N/a
Permission for development consisting of (1) The demolition of existing derelict buildings & forecourt, (2) Decommission existing underground fuel tanks and associated works, (3) Erection of 1 no. part single/part two storey commercial building comprising a creche, digital hub/training centre, (4) Alterations to the site layout and all ancillary site works including parking, bicycle stands and landscaping, at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460025
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: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1516 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program; GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map; KML, for 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
- 120.2 ha
- 297 acres
- Land parcels
- 132
- registered freehold, median 366 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 8
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
132 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyclare, from 11 m² to 462,776 m² (46.28 ha, 114.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyclare 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
6 Jun 2025N/a
PART 8 - PD/25/43 - Planning Permission - Relation to Specified Development - Ballyleague Road Safety Improvement Scheme at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2543
11 Apr 2025Conditional
Permission for: (1) The construction of the following - a) 1 no. single storey finished goods storage shed extension (411m²), b) 1 no. single storey industrial shed extension for the manufacture of finished goods (124m²), c) and 1 no. Electrical Substation (14m²); (2) Change of use of no. 1 shed for use as an industrial building for the manufacture of finished goods (292m²) and (3) all ancillary and site works associated with the above at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2560162
27 Nov 2024Conditional
Permission for works to uprate approximately 35.7km of the overall 35.82km of the existing Athlone to Lanesboro 110 kV overhead line (OHL) circuit located within the administrative boundary within County Roscommon. The proposed development will consist of: • Replacement (“restringing”) and uprating of the conductor along the existing Athlone-Lanesboro 110 kV OHL circuit; • Provision of fibre communication connection on the uprated circuit; • Replacement of 155No. Intermediate Wooden Polesets (IMPs), with similar structures, including poleset stays at 32No. IMPs. The change in structures will result in standardised heights from 16m to 23m along the circuit, the majority of height increases will be between 0.1m and 2.0m (at 125 No. IMPs), with the remainder between 2.1m and 3.7m, and a 4.0m height increase at only one IMP. 3no. IMP replacements will not result in a height change; • Replacement of 25No. Intermediate Wooden Poleset crossarms; • Replacement of 1No. steel angle mast, the replacement structure will result in a height increase of 0.5m; • Foundation strengthening of 9No. steel angle masts, and 1No. end mast; • Bar member replacements to 12No. steel angle masts and 1No. end mast; and, •All associated development including insulator/hardware replacement (suspension clamps and vibration dampers), replacement of signage, painting of angle masts, replacement/installation of anticlimbing guards, access tracks, vegetation clearance, temporary construction compounds and all other works necessary to facilitate the development. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been prepared to accompany this planning application, the location of which begins at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460559
22 Jan 2024N/a
Permission for development consisting of (1) The demolition of existing derelict buildings & forecourt, (2) Decommission existing underground fuel tanks and associated works, (3) Erection of 1 no. part single/part two storey commercial building comprising a creche, digital hub/training centre, (4) Alterations to the site layout and all ancillary site works including parking, bicycle stands and landscaping, at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2460025
27 Oct 2022Conditional
Permission to demolish and dispose of existing structures on site consisting of 21 no. mushroom houses and an office building and store rooms and permission to construct 26 no. houses (consisting of 10 no. semi-detached 3 bed houses, 16 no. terraced units made up of 10 no. 2 bed houses and 6 no. 3 bed houses) construct service road and connect water and sewage (the sewage will be connected to a pumping unit) to existing mains supply and ancillary site works at
Permission, 26 homes · Roscommon County Council, 22581
20 Oct 2022N/a
Permission to demolish and dispose of existing structures on site consisting of 21 no. mushroom houses and an office building and store rooms and full planning permission is sought to construct 26 no. houses, (consisting of 10 no. semi-detached 3 bed houses, 16 no. terraced units made up of 10 no. 2 bed houses and 6 no. 3 bed houses) construct service road and connect water and sewage (the sewage will be connected to a pumping unit) to existing mains supply and ancillary site works at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 22567
16 Feb 2021Conditional
for erection of lighting columns for provisions of flood lighting to practice pitch at
Permission · Roscommon County Council, 2191
5 Oct 2020Conditional
to demolish an existing cottage and garage, to replace same with split-level style dwelling and garage, to modify the existing entrance walls & gates, to carry out all ancillary site works and make necessary connections to existing services at
Permission, 1 home · Roscommon County Council, 20407
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Ree SAC 000440
- Special Protection Area: Lough Ree SPA 004064
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Ree 000440
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyclare.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1516 (ZIP).
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballyclare with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyclare · Baile an Chláir
- Area
- 1,202,161 m² (120.22 ha, 297.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloontuskert, and its townlands
- Barony
- Ballintober South
- Electoral division
- Cloontuskert, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloontuskert electoral division: 1,315 people in 512 households; 68% of households own their home; 42% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyleague, Culliaghy, Gortgallan, Moher
- 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.