Ballintaw

45 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintaw, from 284 m² to 473,724 m² (47.37 ha, 117.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 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 Ballintaw 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.

• 5 Aug 2026N/a

  construction of a single storey extension with loft to the rear of existing dwelling house, an entrance porch to the front of the existing dwelling house, change of elevation to existing dwelling house, installation of a wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660899

• 26 Feb 2025N/a

  the construction of a new storage shed for personal private use and all other associated site work

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2548

• 9 Oct 2024Conditional

  a dwelling house serviced with a mechanical wastewater treatment unit, construct entrance from public roadway and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 24390

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  a two storey dwelling house to include installation of wastewater treatment system and vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22625

• 4 Jan 2022Refused

  extension of duration for 16/860 for an entrance, dwelling house, garage, well, domestic waste water treatment plant with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 227001

• 10 Dec 2021N/a

  a two storey dwelling house to include installation of wastewater treatment system and vehicular entrance and all associated site development works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 211716

• 7 Dec 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, stables, effluent treatment plant, recessed site entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211692

• 27 Jan 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling, double domestic garage, fuel shed, bicycle shed and boiler house, a secondary wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and entrance

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2169

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 Ballintaw.

Recorded monuments

• LI031-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat pasture, 225m SW of an enclosure (LI031-057----). Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 22m) defined by a bank from N-E-S-SW and scarp with external fosse from NE-SE and S-W, truncated at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular-shaped earthwork defined by bank, incorporated into field boundary at N and intersected at NE by field boundary running NE-SW. Monument visible as sub-circular shaped area enclosed by tree-covered bank truncated by field boundary at N, on OSi orthophotographs taken between 2005-2012 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. Faint trace of external fosse at SE visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 March 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 308/33 & 37 taken 13/09/2002.

• LI031-057 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, enclosure (LI031-056----) lies 226m to SW. Not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted on OSi 25-inch map as a sub-circular shaped platform (dims. c. 22m N-S x 27m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse from N-E-S-SE only. Bisected by a drainage ditch running NW-SE across W quadrant. Faint cropmark of levelled monument visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 March 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 306/34 & 35 taken 13/09/2002.

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballintaw.

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

Name

Ballintaw · Baile an tSamhaidh

Area

1,789,081 m² (178.91 ha, 442.09 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeyville electoral division: 411 people in 137 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyculleen, Clorane, Crean, Drombeg, Dunkip, Tullerboy, Tullovin

Placenames

Ballintaw 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.