Ballinculloo
Ballinculloo is a townland in the civil parish of Athlacca, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Cholbha.
- Area
- 83.9 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,842 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinculloo, from 1,848 m² to 275,524 m² (27.55 ha, 68.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinculloo 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
15 Apr 2025Conditional
a dormer dwelling, a wastewater treatment system, a new entrance, modification to existing ruin to be purposed as a growing shed and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25121
25 Apr 2024Conditional
proposed 88.5 sq.m of PV Solar Panels mounted on a 2.3m high frame
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460385
29 Oct 2021Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211513
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 Ballinculloo.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinculloo.
Architectural heritage
- House, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1810, comprising recent three-bay single-storey extension to front (south) elevation and single-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with brick chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with moulded render surrounds and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening to recent extension.
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 Ballinculloo, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinculloo.
- 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 Ballinculloo with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinculloo · Baile an Cholbha
- Area
- 838,637 m² (83.86 ha, 207.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Athlacca, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Dromin, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Maidstown, Rathcannon, Raymondstown
- Placenames
- Ballinculloo 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.