Ballingaddy North

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingaddy North, from 855 m² to 288,064 m² (28.81 ha, 71.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballingaddy North 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.

• 22 Jan 2021Conditional

  decommissioning of existing septic tank and soak pit, installation of a packaged waste water treatment system and soil filter, construction of single storey detached garage

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2157

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 Ballingaddy North.

Recorded monuments

• LI048-026001 Church
  Description

  Westropp (1904-5, 424) recorded the following details about Ballingaddy Church which was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary; 'Balygady, 1291-1302. John le Troy held the living, 1378 (see 245, supra). The Pope ordered that Ric. Bondwill, priest, be given a canonry and the perpetual vicarage of Ballagady, worth 10m. Grant was treated as void, and transferred to Thomas de S. Jacobo, 1394 (Cal. Papal L., iv.,p. 471); Ballinghaddie dedicated to B.V.M., 1410; Fabric - It has a nave and choir 39 feet 4 inches [12m] by 23 feet [7m], and 29 feet [8.8m] by 17½ feet [5.3m]. The west gable and sides of the nave remained. The two windows and door in the south, and one in the north, were defaced before 1840. There was an oblong light in the gable walls, 10 feet [3m] by 3 feet 4 inches [1m], of regular masonry (O.S.L., 8, p. 293).'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 June 2019

• LI048-026002 Graveyard
  Description

  The medieval church ruins (LI048-026001-) of Ballingaddy stands in NW quadrant of graveyard which consists of a roughly rectangular-shaped area (approx. dims. 50m N-S x 70m E-W) enclosed by post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at N end of E wall. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 31 July 2019

• LI048-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on glebe lands, 50m N of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Flemingstown and 460m W of Flemingstown House. Ballingaddy church (LI048-026001-) and graveyard (LI048-026002- ) lies 250m to the NW. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform defined by a scarp, intersected at NE, E and W by post-1700 field boundaries. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform (dims. c. 69m NW-SE; 60m NE-SW) defined by a bank incorporated into a post-1700 field boundary running N-S from SW-W-NW reduced to a scarp elsehwhere. Described by Westropp (1916-17, 476) as consisting of ‘a steep-sided fort, terraced up 10 feet [3m] over the field to the south and south-east, but only 5 feet [1.5m] to north. It is 123 feet [37.5] across the ring, which was 12 feet thick [3.6m]. The stone facing is entirely removed, and there is no trace of a fosse.’ In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as ‘Ballingaddy Moat in the Glebe of Ballingaddy N.’, one of ‘a few ancient forts’ in the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 146, 156). Monument visible as a large circular-shaped area enclosed by a partially tree-lined bank, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Cultivation ridges are visible running across interior of enclosure on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/01/2003. See attached oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken 05/01/2003 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 August 2021

• LI048-028 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 206) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'Lady's Well on 1840 map. The well still exists and is known to have been a holy well, but there are no devotions and no other traditions'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 July 2019

Architectural heritage

• Saint Mary's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted single-cell barn type Roman Catholic church, built in 1838, comprising three-bay nave, open work bellcote and recent porch to front (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with limestone copings, cast-iron rainwater goods and cross finials to bellcote and rear (west) elevation. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having limestone quoins. Pointed arch opening with limestone block-and-start surround, Y-tracery and stained glass windows. Lancet stained glass windows to nave having painted stone sills and cut limestone voussoirs. Pointed arch opening to rear with limestone tracery and stained glass windows. Square headed opening to porch having double-leaf timber battened doors. Marble altar, pointed arch niches and pointed arch openings with timber panelled doors having trefoil and quatrefoil motifs to west. Carved limestone font to north-east. Date to floor. Rubble limestone boundary walls to south. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east having double-leaf metal gates and rendered boundary walls with limestone copings.

• Mausoleum, 1845–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached single-bay single-storey gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1846, on a square plan. Limestone flagged roof with ridge tiles. Snecked limestone walls on cut-limestone chamfered plinth with cut-limestone chamfered quoins to corners. Pointed segmental-headed door opening below coat of arms, cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals with hood moulding framing perforated iron door. Set in graveyard.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1027 (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 Ballingaddy North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballingaddy North · Baile an Ghadaí Thuaidh

Area

1,470,187 m² (147.02 ha, 363.29 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingaddy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilmallock, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilmallock electoral division: 2,389 people in 962 households; 65% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingaddy South, Ballygillane, Flemingstown, Gotoon, Graiganster, Kilmihil, Millmount, Milltown, Mountcoote, Riversfield

Placenames

Ballingaddy North 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.