Ballinlyna Upper

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlyna Upper, from 183 m² to 567,093 m² (56.71 ha, 140.13 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 Ballinlyna Upper 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.

• 18 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling and detached domestic shed, a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560340

• 1 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of dwelling house, detached domestic garage, bored well, septic tank with percolation area and enlarge existing entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21770

• 12 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21464

• 1 Dec 2020Refused

  construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201267

• 9 Jul 2019Conditional

  roofing a topless cubicle layout that has already received full planning for a wintering system with underground tanks under planning ref. no. 17/643

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19678

• 5 Feb 2019Conditional

  a four bedroom dormer bungalow with living rooms, bathrooms, foul treatment unit & percolation and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1989

• 6 Jul 2017Conditional

  1. Convert an existing haybarn to cubicle accommodation, 2. Construct a topless cubicle wintering system with associated underground slurry tanks, 3. Construct a milking complex with ancillary external bulk meal tank

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17643

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 Ballinlyna Upper.

Recorded monuments

• LI056-037 Cist
  Description

  An account of this monument has been published in: Cahill, M. & Sikora, M. (2011) Breaking ground, finding graves- reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006. vol. 1, 263-269. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 August 2012

• LI056-038 Earthwork
  Description

  In upland pasture 170m E of the townland boundary with Clovers. Standing stone (LI056-074----) lies 80m to W and cist burial (LI056-037----) 115m to NNW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped area (dims. c. 75m NE-SW; 46m NW-SE) defined by a scarp. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 November 2021

• LI056-073 Standing stone
  Description

  On rising ground in pasture with good views of Ballyhoura Hills 4.9km to SW. Castle Hill with Oliver's Folly (LI056-034002-) clearly visible 1.6km to SSW. Flat-topped standing stone (H 1.2m x 0.14m x 0.65m) rectangular in plan with long axis orientated N-S located S of disused farm trackway running from Ballinlyna House that is shown on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by James and Billy O'Brien Date of upload: 23 September 2021

• LI056-074 Standing stone
  Description

  In grassland with oval shaped earthwork (LI056-038----) in field 80m to E, cist burial (LI056-037----) 115m to NNE. Ballinlyna House 200m to N. Standing stone (H 1m x 0.17m x 0.45m) with tapering top, rectangular in plan with long axis orientated N-S. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by James and Billy O'Brien Date of upload: 23 September 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinlyna Upper.

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 Ballinlyna Upper, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinlyna Upper.

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

Name

Ballinlyna Upper · Baile an Laighnigh Uachtarach

Area

1,686,048 m² (168.6 ha, 416.63 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfinnane, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilfinnane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,147 people lived in 474 households in the Kilfinnane electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abbey, Ballinlyna Lower, Ballydonohoe, Ballyorgan, Ballyroe Upper, Clovers, Keale, Thomastown

Placenames

Ballinlyna Upper 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.