Ballintober East
Townland in the civil parish of Killeedy, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Tobair Thoir
- Area
- 141.8 ha
- 350 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 2,788 m² (0.28 ha, 0.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballintober East, from 190 m² to 336,258 m² (33.63 ha, 83.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballintober East 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
21 Mar 2025Conditional
the construction of an agricultural shed consisting of straw bedding, feeding area and underground slatted slurry storage tank and construction of a proposed gated entrance and all associated siteworks
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560229
4 Feb 2019Conditional
construction of 2 poultry houses, covered litter store and all associated site works. The application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an Industrial Pollution & Control Licence, now replaced by an Industrial Emissions Licence). An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) has been submitted as part of the planning application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 1988
22 May 2018Conditional
widening existing entrance to a joint entrance together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18505
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballintober East.
Recorded monuments
- LI044-075 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (dia. 31m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.65m) SW-NW and N-NE, and by scarped edge (H 1.45m; Wth 2.3m) NW-N and NE-SW, with external water-logger fosse (D 0.85m; Wth 5.6m). Fosse opens out into a small pond at NW; pond has a retaining wall on its N side. Intermittent trace of external bank (H 0.2m; Wth 3.3m) NW-SW, on top of which number of mature deciduous trees are growing. Causeway entrance at SE (Wth4.2m). Interior slopes down gently to W and contains numerous shallow depressions. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI044-076 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, in locally raised area of generally level pasture. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, it is still evident as circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by barely perceptible bank (H c. 0.2m) with external fosse (D c. 0.5m). Level interior under grass and partially covered by trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI044-077 Enclosure
Description
In undulating pasture. Roughly circular area (28m E-W; 30m N-S) enclosed by low broad earthen bank (H 0.2m; Wth 1.6m). Gap (Wth c. 6m) in bank to E. Field boundary shown skirting site SW->N on 1924 OS 6-inch map has been removed W->N; site now incorporated into pasture field. Interior slopes down towards centre and surface uneven, probably due to dumping. A limekiln, but no enclosure, is shown here on 1841 map. This site may be an infilled quarry. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballintober East.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballintober East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballintober East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballintober East · Baile an Tobair Thoir
- Area
- 1,418,114 m² (141.81 ha, 350.42 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Ballintober, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballintober electoral division: 386 people in 131 households; 88% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober South, Ballintober West, Cloonsherick, Fawnlehane, Moanleana, Moanroe More, Raheenagh, Shanrath
- Placenames
- Ballintober East 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.