Ballinlee
Ballinlee is a townland in the civil parish of Uregare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Lia.
- Area
- 2.7 ha
- 7 acres
- Land parcels
- 2
- registered freehold, median 13,632 m² (1.36 ha, 3.37 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlee, from 2,658 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres) to 24,606 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinlee 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
31 Jul 2020Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwellinghouse, replacement of existing septic tank system with a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, relocation of existing site entrance and existing field gate entrance in order to create a new site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20740
17 Aug 2018Conditional
construction of a single storey extension to the existing dwelling, replacement of existing septic tank system with a new waste water treatment system and polishing filter, relocation of the existing site entrance and existing field gate entrance in order to create a new site entrance, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18821
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinlee.
Recorded monuments
- LI039-045 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, 10m W of townland boundary with Ballygrennan, 66m E and 47m S of townland boundaries with Ballinlee North and Brackvoan, respectively. Depicted on the OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform (dims. c. 33m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a fosse intersected from SW-W by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S. Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on aerial photograph (McCloud Photo AA41) associated with work on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline where it was classified as a 'platform ringfort'. Levelled monument visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinlee.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinlee, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinlee.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinlee with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinlee · Baile an Lia
- Area
- 27,040 m² (2.7 ha, 6.68 acres)
- Civil parish
- Uregare, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Bruff, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,460 people lived in 542 households in the Bruff electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinlee North, Ballygrennan, Brackvoan
- Placenames
- Ballinlee 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.