Balline

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balline, from 1,617 m² to 240,290 m² (24.03 ha, 59.38 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Balline 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 Balline 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 Balline.

Recorded monuments

• LI048-015001 Church
  Description

  No surface remains visible of Emlygrennan Church which stood in centre of rectangular shaped graveyard (LI048-015002-). St. Molua's Well (LI048-017----) 200m to E. Westropp (1904-5, 428) recorded the following details about Emlygrennan Church dedicated to St. Molua; 'Imelach Dregingi granted to Magio by Prince John, 1185; confirmed, 1200 (ante); Imlech Dromgi, 1201; Imelach Dreyn, 1302; Imelach Dreynyn, to which Edward III. presented Hugh de Waldene, but Adam Harte was found to hold the living, 1346 (Pat. R.); Emiligrenan, or Ballaghrinine, dedicated to St. Molluo, May 5, 1410; Imlagh Drynyn, 1418; Emlach Grenan, 1591. Site - Church levelled; but St. Molua's Well [LI048-017----] remains near Balline'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 25 June 2019

• LI048-015002 Graveyard
  Description

  Site of medieval church (LI048-015001-) in centre of graveyard which consists of a rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 26m N-S x 56m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at W. Stone graves (LI048-015003-) lie immediately to N with St. Molua's Well (LI048-017---) 200m to ENE. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• LI048-015003 Cist
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of Emlygrennan Church (LI048-015001-) which stood in the centre of a rectangular shaped graveyard (LI048-015002-). Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch. Annotated ‘Stone Graves’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. The annotation 'Stone Graves' may refer to the location of two stone lined burial or cist burials immediately N of boundary wall of Emlygrennan graveyard (LI048-015002-). See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• LI048-015004 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, Emlygrennan Church ruins (LI048-015001-) and graveyard (LI048-015002-) lie 50m to S. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Trace of enclosure or platform visible to the N of Emlygrennan Church on oblique aerial photograph taken 17/07/1968 (CUCAP BGK052). Possible trace of levelled earthwork visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 20m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached oblique aerial photograph taken 17/07/1971 (CUCAP BGK052) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• LI048-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In wet pasture, 16m W of Morningstar River that forms townland boundary with Ballynahinch. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (dims. c. 14.5m NW-SE; 14 NE-SW) enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SW-W-N-NE. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank with fosse on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• LI048-017 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 207) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Molua's Well on 1840 map. A clear spring in an open field 250 yards east of Emlygrennan church (ruined). A circular wall about the well, and a life size statue of the saint have recently been erected. This is probably the best known well in Co. Limerick. It is still often visited, especially around the saint's day, 3rd-4th August. A large pattern was held formerly. Rounds are made partly at the well, where there is a rounds-path, and partly in the churchyard, where there is a second rounds-path; this has two upright slabs (apparently ancient) which are used as "marking stones". Usually three visits are made on different days; at each visit the pilgrim makes six rounds at the well and three rounds in the graveyard. Water is drunk at each round at the well. Small religious objects are left as offerings at the well; formerly rags were hung on the bushes in the graveyard. The water cures sore eyes, skin disease and ague. The Metrical Dindshenchus (Todd Lecture Series X, p. 230) may refer to this well; it is interesting to note that this poem tells that a circuit of the well made deiseal brings blessing while one made tuathal brings a curse. Legends: The well moved when clothes were washed in it; the old site is still shown. A trout in the well is seen by those whose cure is assured. The water will not boil. Heavenly music was heard at the well. A woman who took water for profane use saw a human hand in the well'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

Architectural heritage

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

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 Balline, 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 Balline.

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

Name

Balline · Baile Fhaghain

Area

1,311,837 m² (131.18 ha, 324.16 acres)

Civil parish

Emlygrennan, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Emlygrennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvreena, Ballynahinch, Cush, Darranstown, Knocktoran

Placenames

Balline 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.