Ballaghbehy

189 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballaghbehy, from 13 m² to 218,082 m² (21.81 ha, 53.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 43 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballaghbehy 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.

• 23 Feb 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660194

• 7 Aug 2025Conditional

  elevational changes to existing dwelling house from that previously granted under planning reference 01/341

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560777

• 28 Aug 2023Conditional

  the erection of a detached domestic garage with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360619

• 14 Mar 2023Conditional

  (a) the demolition of existing front and rear extension to existing house and existing outbuildings, (b) the construction of extension and alterations to existing dwelling, utilise existing entrance and connect to existing septic tank system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23160

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22619

• 1 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22618

• 7 Jul 2021Conditional

  an extension to existing bungalow, decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and install a mechanical aeration unit and two number puraflo modules and all ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21958

• 7 May 2021N/a

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21620

• 25 Nov 2020Conditional

  construction of a domestic garage and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201231

• 14 Jul 2020Conditional

  construction of a domestic house with detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20647

• 6 Jun 2019Conditional

  a slatted unit with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19548

• 8 May 2018Conditional

  construction of a storey and a half dwelling house with detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of a mechanical aeration treatment system with a soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18438

• 25 Jan 2018Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1863

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI043-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SSW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and surrounding field boundaries removed. However, it is still discernible as circular area (22.3m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed NW->N by low earthen bank (H c. 0.25m; Wth c. 7m) and defined N->NW by very-slight scarped edge. Interior surface marshy, slopes gently down to SSW, and is clear of overgrowth except for two mature trees. Very low oval (10m N-S; 7.5m E-W) rise discernible in centre of interior. According to local information monument levelled to present form c. 1980. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-span skewed railway bridge, built in 1880, spanning the Limerick to Kerry railway line. Now in use by the Southern Trail recreational route. Round-headed arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs and dressed stone soffit. Springing from dressed stone piers with rusticated limestone quoins and tooled limestone springer courses. Snecked dressed stone spandrels with rusticated tooled limestone stringcourses surmounted by dressed rubble stone parapet walls with rusticated tooled limestone coping.

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 Ballaghbehy, 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_3427 (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.

No address of the register names Ballaghbehy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballaghbehy · Bealach Beithe

Area

5,830,936 m² (583.09 ha, 1,440.86 acres)

Civil parish

Abbeyfeale, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Dromtrasna, the unit of the census

Census 2022

930 people lived in 337 households in the Dromtrasna electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballaghbehy North, Ballaghbehy South, Crataloe West, Dromtrasna (Collins), Dromtrasna (Hartnett), Knockbrack, Knocknasnaa

Placenames

Ballaghbehy 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.