Ballinscaula

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinscaula, from 513 m² to 368,292 m² (36.83 ha, 91.01 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 30 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 Ballinscaula 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.

• 11 Nov 2025Refused

  the construction of a domestic store incorporating car bays and first floor loft area. retention permission for an existing garden maintenance shed with courtyard, together with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561156

• 8 Apr 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2560306

• 30 Oct 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461077

• 2 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of a new domestic entrance and retention permission for an existing cattle storage shed (export lairage) and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21772

• 14 Apr 2020Conditional

  the restoration and the construction of part single storey part two storey rear extension to be used as a family dwelling house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20312

• 20 Nov 2018N/a

  construction of an agricultural storage building, canteen, toilet facilities, concrete yard, boundary walls/fence, mechanical aeration unit, soil polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181126

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 Ballinscaula.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-096 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 120m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballinvala. Earthwork (LI040-097----) lies 25m to SE. Impressive trivallate earthwork (overall diam. c. 105m) depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp with wide wet fosse (Wth c. 13m), bank visible from S-N-NE, with fosse, bank, fosse and external bank visible from NNE-S-NNW. Westropp (1917-19, 178) recorded this impressive trivallate monument as a ringfort which he described as follows; ‘The fort is a large earthwork in a very marshy field which, before the great drains were dug, must have been a shallow lake in wet weather. It has a low mote in the centre, girt by a ring of level field, fenced by a ring mound and two fosses and mounds, fairly concentric, and measuring 280 feet (85m) overall. There seems to be traces of a causeway through the marsh to the east, but there are no entrance gaps on that side. The fosses are as wide as the rings and are literally filled up with lush marsh vegetation, rushes, peppermint and such water-loving plants. The interspace round the mound is from 42 feet (12.8m) to 45 feet (13.7m) wide. The mote is from 6 feet to 7 feet (1.8m-2.1m) high, 60 feet to 62 feet (18.2m- 18.9m) across the summit, 87 feet (26.5m) to 90 feet (27.4m) in diameter at the base; it has no apparent house sites. The southern gangway is 15 feet (4.5m) wide. The monument is clearly visible as a raised circular shaped-area enclosed by three banks and two fosses on aerial photograph (ASIAP (304) 10) taken 13/09/2002. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019 as a trivallate earthwork intersected at N by field bank running E-W with an agricultural yard immediately to N. Classification of this impressive monument is uncertain, Westropp suggested that this earthwork was the remains of a trivallate ringfort, however the small central platform enclosed by a wide wet fosse is more akin to a burial site in the barrow tradition rather than a trivallate ringfort. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (304) 10) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-097 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 85m W of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballinvala. Possible trivallate barrow (LI040-096----) lies 25m to NW. Depicted as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. c. 24m) defined by a scarp on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Westropp (1917-19, 178) described the monument as follows; ‘The satellite is well preserved; its fosse is 3 feet to 4 feet (0.9-1.2m) deep and 12 feet to 14 feet (3.6-4.2m) wide, with no trace of an outer ring. The inner bank is 15 feet (4.5m) thick, 5 feet (1.5m) high outside and 1 foot (0.3m) over the oval garth, which is 60 feet (18.2m) across north and south, and 54 feet (16.5m) east and west. It has a nearly levelled annexe to the west, 18 yards (16.6m) across and defined by a shallow hollow; the west corners are rounded off’. The monument is clearly visible as a raised circular shaped-area enclosed by a bank and fosse on aerial photograph (ASIAP (304) 10) taken on 13/09/2002 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached aerial photograph (ASIAP (304) 10) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 15 June 2021

• LI040-282 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 230m W of the townland boundary with Stephenstown. Possible barrow (LI040-096----) lies 115m to SE. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 21m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as circular cropmark defined by vegetation and intersected at W by a field boundary running N-S on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 8 July 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 304/11 on 13/09/2002.

• LI048-010 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 170m W of townland boundary with Martinstown. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 18m NW-SE; 16m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Monument visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. Earthwork visible as a circular shaped platform with ESB pole standing in N quadrant and enclosing fosse defined by differential vegetation growth on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Bridge, 1845–1855 · Regional interest
  Description

  Single-arch limestone humpback railway bridge, built c. 1849, having coursed rusticated walls with dressed stringcourses and copings. Rusticated voussoirs to segmental-headed arches.

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 Ballinscaula, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballinscaula · Baile an Scálaigh

Area

2,744,909 m² (274.49 ha, 678.28 acres)

Civil parish

Athneasy, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Bulgaden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 121 households in the Bulgaden electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamstown, Balline, Ballinvana, Bulgaden Eady, Darranstown, Gibbonstown, Gormanstown (Grady), Kilbreedy East, Martinstown, Stephenstown

Placenames

Ballinscaula 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.