Ballinena

61 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinena, from 86 m² to 396,253 m² (39.63 ha, 97.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 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 Ballinena 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.

• 8 May 2026Refused

  construction of a two storey dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, mechanical wastewater unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/327

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 267039

• 24 May 2024Conditional

  for the partial construction of an easyfeed slatted unit and permission for the completion and extension to easyfeed slatted unit, installation of 4 No. soiled water tanks and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24221

• 20 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of an easy feed slatted cubicle house with underground slatted tank, feed barriers, feed passage, ancillary concrete, external agitation points and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460359

• 18 Mar 2021Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21327

• 4 Jul 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning File Ref. No. 13/247 : a dwelling house with proprietary waste water treatment system, domestic garage, entrance and boundary walls

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187024

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 Ballinena.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Monument, depicted as penannular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been substantially levelled. However, it is still evident as sub-circular area (40m N-S; 37m E-W) defined by scarped edge with traces of fosse W->S. Both scarp (H 0.35m; Wth 4.7m) and external fosse (Wth 3.5m; D 0.25m) are most pronounced along N arc. Interior under pasture and slopes down to E. Scarp eroded at W by farm machinery crossing site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-121 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still evident as distinct circular area of clover and lush grass (37m N-S; 36m E-W), bounded by a band of dock leaves (Wth 4m) N->E which probably indicating line of external fosse. Extant field boundary cuts across line of fosse at SSW. According to local information, enclosure levelled c. 1978. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle E-facing slope immediately below top of low rise. Circular area (36.6m N-S; 35.7m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.55m), with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.65m) SSW->NNW and at NE. Interior under pasture and sloping gently down to E; W side crossed by post-and-wire fence on N-S axis. A field boundary runs E-W immediately N of enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-123 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Immediately SW of public road. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Cottage and outhouses stand approximately in area of site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-161 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Oval area (38.5m NW-SE; 31.2m NE-SW) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) grades to a scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2m) E->N, but outer bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.25m) evident all round. Greatest external bank height of outer bank is at WSW (H 0.7m). Enclosure is dissected by field boundary travelling on NW-SE axis (approx. two-thirds of enclosure lies NE of boundary). Interior slopes down to W and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight E-facing slope. Circular area (35.1m N-S; 36.5m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.75m; Wth 2.05m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 2.7m) ESE->NNE. Scarped edge most prominent ESE->NNE. Interior slopes down gently to E, and is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_409 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballinena · Baile an Aonaigh

Area

1,490,988 m² (149.1 ha, 368.43 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 1,037 people in 384 households; 83% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashgrove, Ballyine, Ballynabearna, Churchtown, Doocatteen, Dunganville Lower, Dunganville Upper

Placenames

Ballinena 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.