# Ballinscaula, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Athneasy, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Scálaigh. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 2,744,909 m² (274.49 ha, 678.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 27,537 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 6 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Athneasy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/athneasy.md - Barony: Coshlea - Electoral division: Bulgaden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30851 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120123 - Centre: latitude 52.419285, longitude -8.495618 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinscaula, from 513 m² to 368,292 m² (36.83 ha, 91.01 acres); 30 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1660821: 368,292 m² (36.83 ha, 91.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660821.md - Parcel 1600181: 276,985 m² (27.7 ha, 68.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600181.md - Parcel 1622547: 217,941 m² (21.79 ha, 53.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622547.md - Parcel 1590091: 187,181 m² (18.72 ha, 46.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590091.md - Parcel 1662798: 180,351 m² (18.04 ha, 44.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662798.md - Parcel 4923708: 138,142 m² (13.81 ha, 34.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4923708.md - Parcel 1643067: 137,815 m² (13.78 ha, 34.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643067.md - Parcel 1667039: 133,660 m² (13.37 ha, 33.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667039.md - Parcel 1615767: 111,355 m² (11.14 ha, 27.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615767.md - Parcel 1651151: 104,753 m² (10.48 ha, 25.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651151.md - Parcel 1596102: 91,699 m² (9.17 ha, 22.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596102.md - Parcel 1624227: 82,601 m² (8.26 ha, 20.41 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624227.md - Parcel 1663483: 76,672 m² (7.67 ha, 18.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663483.md - Parcel 1604315: 74,554 m² (7.46 ha, 18.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604315.md - Parcel 5072156: 62,522 m² (6.25 ha, 15.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5072156.md - Parcel 1662331: 51,339 m² (5.13 ha, 12.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662331.md - Parcel 1615778: 42,333 m² (4.23 ha, 10.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1615778.md - Parcel 4923854: 40,561 m² (4.06 ha, 10.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4923854.md - Parcel 1659018: 27,537 m² (2.75 ha, 6.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659018.md - Parcel 5617685: 11,879 m² (1.19 ha, 2.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5617685.md - Parcel 3266665: 10,328 m² (1.03 ha, 2.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266665.md - Parcel 1651154: 5,670 m² (0.57 ha, 1.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651154.md - Parcel 1659399: 4,687 m² (0.47 ha, 1.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659399.md - Parcel 1593911: 3,369 m² (0.34 ha, 0.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593911.md - Parcel 3366911: 2,833 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3366911.md - Parcel 1657687: 2,720 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657687.md - Parcel 1592264: 2,651 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592264.md - Parcel 1590598: 2,432 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590598.md - Parcel 1616466: 2,358 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616466.md - Parcel 2386070: 2,316 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386070.md - Parcel 1640212: 2,297 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640212.md - Parcel 1612737: 2,290 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612737.md - Parcel 1640917: 2,263 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640917.md - Parcel 2501886: 2,116 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2501886.md - Parcel 1605965: 1,660 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605965.md - Parcel 4923964: 1,638 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4923964.md - Parcel 1595767: 513 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595767.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 6 applications, newest first. - 11 Nov 2025, Limerick County Council 2561156: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561156/0 - 8 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 2560306: Conditional. Outline permission. the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560306/0 - 30 Oct 2024, Limerick County Council 2461077: Conditional. Outline permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, bored well, entrance and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461077/0 - 2 Jun 2021, Limerick County Council 21772: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a new domestic entrance and retention permission for an existing cattle storage shed (export lairage) and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21772/0 - 14 Apr 2020, Limerick County Council 20312: Conditional. Permission. the restoration and the construction of part single storey part two storey rear extension to be used as a family dwelling house. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20312/0 - 20 Nov 2018, Limerick County Council 181126: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/181126/0 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 Ballinscaula. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI040-096: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-096----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-097----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-282----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI048-010----. 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 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) - Bridge, 1845–1855, Regional interest, registry number 21904809, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904809. Single-arch limestone humpback railway bridge, built c. 1849, having coursed rusticated walls with dressed stringcourses and copings. Rusticated voussoirs to segmental-headed arches. ## 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 Ballinscaula, 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinscaula. - 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/ballinscaula.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinscaula.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinscaula.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballinscaula 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) - Adamstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/adamstown.md - Balline: https://everytownland.com/limerick/balline-120095.md - Ballinvana: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinvana.md - Bulgaden Eady: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bulgaden-eady.md - Darranstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/darranstown.md - Gibbonstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gibbonstown.md - Gormanstown (Grady): https://everytownland.com/limerick/gormanstown-grady.md - Kilbreedy East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilbreedy-east.md - Martinstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/martinstown.md - Stephenstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/stephenstown.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/ballinscaula - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballinscaula