# Ballinlyna Upper, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilfinnane, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Laighnigh Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,686,048 m² (168.6 ha, 416.63 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 23,546 m² (2.35 ha, 5.82 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilfinnane, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilfinnane.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Kilfinnane, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30977 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120115 - Centre: latitude 52.33536, longitude -8.461285 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlyna Upper, from 183 m² to 567,093 m² (56.71 ha, 140.13 acres); 22 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1615799: 567,093 m² (56.71 ha, 140.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615799.md - Parcel 1673924: 342,956 m² (34.3 ha, 84.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673924.md - Parcel 1602349: 124,514 m² (12.45 ha, 30.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602349.md - Parcel 1613074: 113,883 m² (11.39 ha, 28.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613074.md - Parcel 1594088: 81,449 m² (8.14 ha, 20.13 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594088.md - Parcel 1660635: 77,799 m² (7.78 ha, 19.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660635.md - Parcel 1588185: 77,368 m² (7.74 ha, 19.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588185.md - Parcel 1657625: 74,480 m² (7.45 ha, 18.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657625.md - Parcel 1595704: 49,659 m² (4.97 ha, 12.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595704.md - Parcel 1616592: 39,711 m² (3.97 ha, 9.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616592.md - Parcel 1604055: 33,953 m² (3.4 ha, 8.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604055.md - Parcel 5338807: 30,609 m² (3.06 ha, 7.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5338807.md - Parcel 1662167: 26,078 m² (2.61 ha, 6.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662167.md - Parcel 1662884: 21,015 m² (2.1 ha, 5.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662884.md - Parcel 1619825: 4,849 m² (0.48 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619825.md - Parcel 1622604: 4,614 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622604.md - Parcel 3600733: 3,180 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3600733.md - Parcel 1640845: 2,842 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640845.md - Parcel 1620895: 2,506 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1620895.md - Parcel 1606071: 2,500 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606071.md - Parcel 1642782: 2,460 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642782.md - Parcel 5683086: 2,042 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5683086.md - Parcel 5546343: 1,992 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5546343.md - Parcel 1646378: 1,179 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1646378.md - Parcel 1672142: 1,036 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672142.md - Parcel 1667747: 183 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667747.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 18 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 2560340: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling and detached domestic shed, a waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560340/0 - 1 Jun 2021, Limerick County Council 21770: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of dwelling house, detached domestic garage, bored well, septic tank with percolation area and enlarge existing entrance. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21770/0 - 12 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21464: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21464/0 - 1 Dec 2020, Limerick County Council 201267: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, septic tank and polishing filter, entrance, bored well and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/201267/0 - 9 Jul 2019, Limerick County Council 19678: Conditional. Permission. roofing a topless cubicle layout that has already received full planning for a wintering system with underground tanks under planning ref. no. 17/643. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19678/0 - 5 Feb 2019, Limerick County Council 1989: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. a four bedroom dormer bungalow with living rooms, bathrooms, foul treatment unit & percolation and entrance. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/1989/0 - 6 Jul 2017, Limerick County Council 17643: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17643/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballinlyna Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI056-037: Cist, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-037----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-038----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-073----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI056-074----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinlyna Upper. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) 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: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abbey: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abbey.md - Ballinlyna Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-lower.md - Ballydonohoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonohoe-120212.md - Ballyorgan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyorgan.md - Ballyroe Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyroe-upper.md - Clovers: https://everytownland.com/limerick/clovers.md - Keale: https://everytownland.com/limerick/keale-121243.md - Thomastown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/thomastown-121872.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinlyna-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballinlyna-upper