Ballinscoola

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinscoola, from 291 m² to 311,900 m² (31.19 ha, 77.07 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinscoola 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballinscoola in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Herbertstown Fen 000436

Recorded monuments

• LI032-083 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Cashel described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a very small stone fort built on a little knoll of limestone outcrop on a very low hill. In a sense, it might be called a promontory fort as it is approachable easily only from the east side, where there is a gentle slope up to it. On the other sides the approach is precipitous. Very little of the rampart remains and none of the facing stones are visible. The entrance is on the S.E. side and is approximately 8' [2.4m] wide. At this point the slope up the rock to the fort is very gentle. The overall diameter is 60' [18m]. The surrounding field is intersected by ancient fences, some of which are marked by boulders placed along them at intervals' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 240). Outline of monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI032-084001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Two cashels (LI032-084002-) described in 1942-3 as following; 'The best preserved of these consists of a circular space surrounded by what seems to be a stone bank. It is very collapsed and none of the facing stones are visible. The entrance is on the south and is only barely discernible. Its overall diameter is 100' [30m]. It is situated on a very low limestone hill which is divided up by a system of ancient fences. The second fort [LI032-084002-] is immediately on the west of this but only the slightest trace of it remains. It was probably similar to the one described above. Its overall diameter seems to have been about 100' [30m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 240). Outline of extant cashel clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI032-084002 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  Two cashels (LI032-084001-) described in 1942-3 as following; 'The best preserved of these [LI032-084001-] consists of a circular space surrounded by what seems to be a stone bank. It is very collapsed and none of the facing stones are visible. The entrance is on the south and is only barely discernible. Its overall diameter is 100' [30m]. It is situated on a very low limestone hill which is divided up by a system of ancient fences. The second fort is immediately on the west of this but only the slightest trace of it remains. It was probably similar to the one described above. Its overall diameter seems to have been about 100' [30m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 240). Barely visible outline of levelled cashel visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 6 March 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken 05/01/2003.

• LI032-234 Earthwork
  Description

  In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 100m to SW and which marks the townland boundary with Kilcullane. A ring-barrow (LI032-233001-) lies 16m to N. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 180: AP 4/3607) as a rectangular-shaped cropmark. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (12m NW-SE; 9m NE-SW) defined by a fosse, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 180 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 November 2020

• LI032-235 Moated site
  Description

  In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 182m to the E which forms the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 181: AP 4/3607) as a large rectilinear-shaped cropmark in a long, narrow field. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped earthwork (37m ENE-WSW; 35m NNW-SSE) defined by traces of a possible fosse, best seen to N and S, on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 181 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 November 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 349/13 taken on 05/01/2003.

• LI032-236 Field system
  Description

  In improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, on the floodplain of the Camoge River 280m to E which forms the townland boundary with Kilcullane. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Cashels (LI032-084001-/02-) are within the centre. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 223: AP 5/2015) as a large irregular-shaped area of earthworks in the vicinity of two roughly oval-shaped cashels (LI032-084001-/002-). Monument is visible as an irregular-shaped area (4.7 acres/1.9ha) enclosed by a stone wall to E and S, and by cropmarks of former boundaries to W and N, as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Also visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. Also visible are a pair of parallel earthworks extending (L 40m N-S) approx. 10m apart, from the NW edge of cashel (LI032-084001-) as best seen on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012. Another linear earthwork running NW-SE extends (approx. L 80m) to the immediate NE of cashel (LI032-084001-). Other linear earthworks including a pair of parallel earthworks to SE of cashel (LI032-084001-) and other less defined features occur in the vicinity of the two cashels and there may be evidence of small scale quarrying to SW. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 223 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 17 November 2020

• LI032-343 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 34m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballinscoola with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballinscoola · Baile an Scúlaigh

Area

1,179,784 m² (117.98 ha, 291.53 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcullane, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Cahercorney, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cahercorney electoral division: 761 people in 260 households; 89% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinard, Ballinscoola, Ballynamona, Gortacloona, Herbertstown (Powell), Kilcullane, Ragamus

Placenames

Ballinscoola 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.