Ballingowan

39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballingowan, from 73 m² to 222,930 m² (22.29 ha, 55.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballingowan 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.

• 24 Mar 2024Conditional

  existing domestic garage, side conservatory extension to house and alteration to front facade of house namely replacement of garage door with a window all at my property

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460253

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 Ballingowan.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on slight NE-facing slope. Circular area (31.2m N-S; 33.95m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.95m) ESE->NNW and N->NNE and defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 1.8m) NNE->ESE and NNW->N, with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.2m) all around. There is a counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 0.4m) SSW->NW. Gaps in inner bank at NNW (Wth 1.2m), NNE (Wth 2.4m) and SE (Wth 1.8m). Matching gaps through inner and outer bank at SSW (Wth 2.3m) and W (Wth 1.3m). Field boundary, which skirted enclosure at SW, has been removed. Farm trackway, running N-S, has been constructed 6m E of enclosure. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI036-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (30.9m N-S; 28.2m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.95m; Wth 2.4m), with broad shallow external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 7.3m) S->N. External counterscarp earthen bank (ext. H 1.5m) W->N. Entrance (Wth 2m) at ESE. Pond (diam. c. 4m) in fosse at N. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI036-030 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (34m N-S; 35.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.95m; Wth 1.8m). Entrance (Wth 4m) via ramp across scarp at E. Drain cut along base of scarped edge NW->NNW leads to a pond at N. Field boundary abuts base of scarp S->SSW. A wooden fence runs along top of scarp SSW->WNW, and is replaced by a wire-and-post fence WNW->NE. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI036-031 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Sub-circular area (24.5m N-S; 21m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.95m) SW->NE, and defined by scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 2m) NE->SW, with external fosse (D 1.4m; Wth 3.6m) SE->WSW; fosse re-cut as drain ENE->SE and WSW->NNE. Entrance (Wth 1.9m) at NE. Field boundary abuts outer edge of fosse at SSW. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. 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 Ballingowan.

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 Ballingowan, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_464 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballingowan · Baile an Ghabhann

Area

885,057 m² (88.51 ha, 218.7 acres)

Civil parish

Grange, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,491 people lived in 875 households in the Newcastle Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfraley, Coolacokery, Dungeeha, Gortroe, Moveedy

Placenames

Ballingowan 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.