Ballinknockane

7 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinknockane, from 50 m² to 339,696 m² (33.97 ha, 83.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballinknockane 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.

• 16 Jun 2022Conditional

  a new 110kV substation to feed into the existing Aughinish - Kilpaddoge 110kV overhead line

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22313816

• 14 Jan 2019Conditional

  a ten year permission for the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 30.15 hectares, to include, electrical transformer and invertor station modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access roads and internal access tracks, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works located in the townlands of Deelish and Mullagh. The proposed solar farm will be connected to the National Grid via the adjoining Ellaha and Ballinknockane solar farm previously granted planning permission under Limerick city & County Council planning ref 17/1220

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1918

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  a ten year permission for the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 61.29 hectares, to include one Transmission System Operator (TSO) electrical substation with associated switchgear, TSO compound and control building, one customer substation with transformer, communications pole, compound and control building, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage containers, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171220

• 29 Aug 2017N/a

  the complete development of a Solar PV Energy development with a total site area of 65.76 hectares, to include two electrical substation buildings and associated compound, electrical transformer and inverter station modules, one customer substation with one communications pole attached, storage modules, Solar PV panels ground mounted on support structures, access roads and internal access tracks, spare parts storage container, fencing, electrical cabling and ducting, CCTV and other ancillary infrastructure, a temporary site compound area, additional landscaping and habitat enhancement as required and associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17807

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 Ballinknockane.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-033 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone hillock. Site depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly rectangular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) against field boundary. Site has been levelled; no visible surface trace evident. According to landowner, enclosure levelled c. 1993 during land reclamation. Westropp (1916-17, 30) described it as 'like a barrel' in plan; it was '120 feet north and south, and from 54 to 90 feet across, a few feet high', and enclosed by 'a stone wall 9 feet thick, now nearly removed'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-036 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in S-facing hill slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to landowner levelled c. 1993 during land reclamation. 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 Ballinknockane.

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 Ballinknockane, about 1 in 5 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_462 (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 Ballinknockane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballinknockane · Baile an Chnocáin

Area

688,641 m² (68.86 ha, 170.17 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Craggs, the unit of the census

Census 2022

258 people lived in 92 households in the Craggs electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowclogh, Craggs, Deelish, Ellaha, Rincullia

Placenames

Ballinknockane 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.