Ballinrea

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinrea, from 42 m² to 154,926 m² (15.49 ha, 38.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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 Ballinrea 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.

• 21 Feb 2020Conditional

  an existing domestic garage and all associated ancillary site development works, and planning permission to construct a new roof window to the front of the property

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20155

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 Ballinrea.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, 60m E of watercourse that forms townland boundary with Rathcannon, an enclosure (LI039-151----) lies 250m to the SW. Annotated ‘Caheradromin’ on OSi historic maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped area (dims. c. 33m NW-SE; 29m NE-SW) defined by a scarp and external fosse, intersected from SE-S-SW by post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW, intersected at SSW by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey described this monument as ‘an ancient fort in the NW end of the townland’ (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 645). Monument visible as circular-shaped area enclosed by tree lined fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and Google Earth orthoimage dated 04/04/2013. Possible circular-shaped area (diam. 8m) in N quadrant of interior may be the remains of a possible hut-site visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 April 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinrea, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The Geological Survey did not answer.

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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

Name

Ballinrea · Baile an Riabhaigh

Area

857,236 m² (85.72 ha, 211.83 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, 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

Ballincurra, Ballingayrour, Ballinlee North, Camas South, Parkroe, Rathcannon

Placenames

Ballinrea 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.