Ballincurra

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballincurra, from 739 m² to 323,980 m² (32.4 ha, 80.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballincurra 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballincurra in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballincurra.

Recorded monuments

• LI032-262 Enclosure
  Description

  In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses and liable to floods, 20m W of a townland boundary with Ballinlough and 105m SE of the Ballynamona River. A ring-barrow (LI032-307----) lies 140m to NE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 237: AP 5/2018) as a faint roughly rectangular-shaped cropmark. Levelled monument is visible as a very faint subrectangular-shaped cropmark (13m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 237 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 21 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 352/12 taken on 05/01/2003.

• LI032-271001 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough wet pasture, to the immediate E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Ditch-barrow (LI032-271002-) and earthwork (LI032-271003-) lie 120m to ENE and ESE respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 234: AP 5/2018) as a rectangular-shaped earthwork in the NW corner of a field. Levelled monument is visible as a faint trace of a rectangular-shaped cropmark (20m E-W; 15m N-S) in NW corner of field, as seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage 04/04/2013. A larger rectangular-shaped area (22m NNW-SSE; 21m ENE-WSW) is defined by two linear cropmarks enclosing the N and E sides of a rectangular-shaped area in the SW corner of the adjoining field to N and is likely to be a continuation of this monument. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 234 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 November 2020

• LI032-271002 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In rough wet pasture, 155m E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Enclosure (LI032-271001-) and earthwork (LI032-271003-) lie 120m to WSW and 55m to S. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 235: AP 5/2018) as a circular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is visible as a circular-shaped earthwork (diam. 12m) defined by a fosse, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 235 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 November 2020

• LI032-271003 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough wet pasture, 135m E of a watercourse which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Ditch-barrow (LI032-271002-) lies 55m to N and enclosure (LI32-271001-) lies 115m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 236: AP 5/2018) as a rectangular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (27m N-S; 17m E-W) defined by a fosse, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although is not clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 236 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 November 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballincurra.

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 Ballincurra with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballincurra · Baile na Cora

Area

1,255,115 m² (125.51 ha, 310.15 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynamona, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Hospital, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Hospital electoral division: 1,296 people in 494 households; 75% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlough, Ballynagranagh, Ballynamona, Castlefarm, Lodge, Portboy

Placenames

Ballincurra 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.