Ballinloughane
Townland in the civil parish of Ardagh, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Locháin
- Area
- 807.8 ha
- 1,996 acres
- Land parcels
- 124
- registered freehold, median 15,768 m² (1.58 ha, 3.9 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
124 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinloughane, from 73 m² to 494,287 m² (49.43 ha, 122.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinloughane 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
30 Jul 2025Conditional
part demolition of existing dwelling and site works carried out to date, and Permission for completion of reconstruction of dwelling, installation of a new proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter, and all associated site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560747
29 Mar 2025Conditional
a front porch to an existing dwelling house as constructed, planning permission is also sought for the boring of a new well, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank system on-site and the installation of a replacement wastewater system and percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560262
5 Feb 2025Conditional
a converted attic space including five protruding dormer windows to the rear of the dwelling house and a revised location for a septic tank/percolation area previously granted retention permission under planning application reference 02/1346 and permission for retention of revised site boundaries
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560080
6 Oct 2017Conditional
Extension of Permission from Ref No.: 12/884 - construction of a single storey dwelling house with attic development, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area with all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177044
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballinloughane.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinloughane.
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
- About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinloughane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinloughane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinloughane · Baile an Locháin
- Area
- 8,077,725 m² (807.77 ha, 1,996.05 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ardagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Rooskagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rooskagh electoral division: 289 people in 109 households; 93% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyine, Ballynabearna, Carrigkerry, Glenagower, Glenastar, Keale, Knockaunnagun, Knocknaboha, Rooskagh West
- Placenames
- Ballinloughane 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.