Ballinvallig
Ballinvallig is a townland in the civil parish of Monagay, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Bhealaigh.
- Area
- 34.5 ha
- 85 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 3,412 m² (0.34 ha, 0.84 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinvallig, from 94 m² to 118,797 m² (11.88 ha, 29.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinvallig 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
10 Mar 2026Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, install mechanical aeration unit and polishing filter system, construct front boundary entrance walls with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660274
11 Apr 2023Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, new entrance, advanced treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works. The height of the dwelling is 7.2 meters and the garage is 5.3 meters
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360212
17 May 2022Conditional
the demolition of an existing dwelling house and the construction of a replacement dwelling house which will consist of a part single storey and part 2 storey dwelling, garage, advanced treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22545
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 Ballinvallig.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-134 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 324/18 on 05/10/2002.
- LI036-139 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (24.8m N-S; 26.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 0.4m). An E-W running field boundary skirts base of scarp at S. A farm shed has been built into scarp at NNE. An ESB pole stands 1m inside top of scarp at NNW. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-140 Mound
Description
In level pasture. The monument, which is depicted as an oval mound (c. 20m E-W; c. 15m N-S) on the 1924 OS 6-inch map, is now covered by a dense thicket of briars and bushes. A ringfort (LI036-141---) lies 40m to the SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-141 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (32.2m N-S; 34.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.45m). A NW-SE running field boundary abuts bank at SE, and runs along inner face of bank at SW; another field boundary abuts bank at NW. Interior level, damp and densely overgrown by bushes along margins. 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 Ballinvallig.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinvallig, about 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_440 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballinvallig with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinvallig · Baile an Bhealaigh
- Area
- 345,306 m² (34.53 ha, 85.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Monagay, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,491 people lived in 875 households in the Newcastle Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintubbrid, Ballycluvane, Ballymackesy, Ballyshane, Knockane, Shangarry
- Placenames
- Ballinvallig 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.