Ballincarroona

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincarroona, from 218 m² to 321,518 m² (32.15 ha, 79.45 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballincarroona 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.

• 13 Nov 2020Conditional

  an existing single storey detached garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 201164

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 the townland of Ballincarroona.

Recorded monuments

• LI055-005 Earthwork
  Description

  In level wet pasture. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 15m) enclosed by a bank, fosse and external bank from SSE-S-SW. Described in 1999 as no surface remains visible. According to landowner the monument was levelled in his grandfather’s time and was known locally as a moat. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 November 2021

• LI055-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, views good in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp, surrounded by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area enclosed by a bank incorporated into a field boundary, truncated at W by a field boundary and drain running N-W, intersected at SE by a field boundary running E-W. Surveyed in 1999 and described as a sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. 48m N-S; 42m E-W) defined by a scarp (at NNW H 0.7m; Wth 1m; at SSW H 1.2m; Wth 2m) with fosse (base Wth 5.2m; base Wth 4m) and external bank (Overall Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; external H 0.5m; Overall Wth 3m; int. H 1.5m; external H 1.6m) from NW-SW, incorporated into field boundary with drain from SW-NW. Waterlogged base of external bank from NW-E may indicate external fosse. External bank appears to have been modified from E-S to form field boundary, possibly linked to portion of field boundary now removed to E of site. Interior level and dry with dense vegetation at the margins. Cattle gap (Wth 1.1m) in external bank at N and modern gap (Wth 2.2m) in external bank at E. Monument visible as a D-shaped area enclosed by a tree-lined fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP 305 18) taken 13/09/2002 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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

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.

Terrain model

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

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.

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

Name

Ballincarroona · Baile an Charrúnaigh

Area

645,949 m² (64.59 ha, 159.62 acres)

Civil parish

Effin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Ballymacshaneboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballymacshaneboy electoral division: 473 people in 182 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhaght, Ballymacshaneboy, Brickfield, Jamestown, Newpark

Placenames

Ballincarroona 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.