Ballinveala

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinveala, from 403 m² to 643,271 m² (64.33 ha, 158.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinveala 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.

• 26 Sept 2024Conditional

  as constructed shed which includes home office and all associated development works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460962

• 18 Nov 2022Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural entrance to land holding

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221219

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  the demolition of a modern system build house that is in poor repair and its replacement with a detached dormer style house, splayed entrance and new approach driveway, clearing of the overgrown site in general, with the exception of the existing septic tank that it is proposed to retain and reuse, and all associated site works on and under land

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201280

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 Ballinveala.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-055 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Castle described in 1840 by Curry (OSL Crecora Parish, 389) as following; ‘It is placed on high ground and is of an oblong form, measuring twenty six and a half feet [8m] by fourteen feet [4.26m] outside. It is four stories high and the walls are fifty feet [15.25m] in height and four feet [1.2m] thick. Joined to this at the west side stood a building, which was commonly called a Court, the quoin stones of which are seen projecting out of the walls of the tower on both sides being the only remnant belonging to it that is now visible’. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Barnaby Earl of Thomond was the owner of Ballinveala which included 'a stump of a Castle and a smale Orcharde'(Simington 1938, 377). Westropp (1906-7, 153-4) recorded the following details about Ballinveala Castle; ‘Brien Duff held Ballymeilly or Ballynveylie C[astle]. (Fi. 4486; and Des. R., 7), which was granted to Edm. Manering, but recovered by Teige O'Brien (Inq. Exch., 25). 1622 Leased by Donat Earl of Thomond to Marg. mac Canna (Inq. Chan., Car. I., No. 62). 1657 Ballinvealla, the stumpe of a C[astle]. and a small orchard, Earl of Thomond (B.D., p. 57; and Act of Sett.). 1669 Confirmed to Arthur Upton (B.D., 57 ; and Act Sett.). Fabric - The eastern wing of a larger peel tower stands; it is 26 feet by 14 feet, and 51 feet high, with four stories, a perfect spiral stair, porch, and vaulted rooms under a stone roof. Bond stones of the levelled "Court" project from the west wall (O.S.L., 8, p. 289). The wooden floors remained in 1874. It was traditionally an O'Brien C[astle], and evidently of the late fifteenth century’. Castle described by Salter (2004, 62) as following; 'The east end wall contains a spiral stair with a keyhole-shaped NE corner loop and three chambers over the entrance passage, the topmost level being vaulted, and the second level having a SE corner loop. Although the O'Briens seem to have never completed the 8m wide main tower the surviving part remained in use until the late 19th century'. Classified by Donnelly (1999, 37) as a tower house of Type 1A which consisted of castle where the 'ground floor entrance to the building leads to an entrance lobby. To one side of the entrance lobby is a doorway leading to a spiral staircase set in a corner of the building. To the other side is a doorway leading into a small chamber - the subsidiary chamber. The entrance lobby provides a direct route of access through to the main chamber'. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 November 2020

• LI022-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, in NE corner of field with good views in all directions, 235m S of townland boundary with Jockeyhall. Present remains consist of a raised circular shaped area (20m N-S x 22m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.4m) from NE to NNW, reduced to a scarp from NNW to NE and external fosse (Base Wth 2.4m; Overall Wth 7.2m; int. H 1.4m; ext. H 0.9m). The interior is level, dry and overgrown. The bank has two breaks at ESE (Wth 2.2m) and SE (Wth1.6m) and the fosse is infilled with rubble and field clearance at S and SE. A stone wall field boundary runs along the infilled fosse at NNW and NE. The monument is visible as a circular enclosure overgrown with trees on the Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2020. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 4 August 2020

• LI022-158 Enclosure
  Description

  In tillage on a slight SSE-facing slope, 200m to W of townland boundary with Shanaclogh. Not depicted on the 1840 OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 OSi 25-inch map. Identified from an examination of 1:10,000 Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE No. 38, Site No.022204). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described no surface remains visible. Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. int. diam. 39m; ext. diam. 47m) visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 14 August 2020

• LI022-254 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 35m) visible on Google earth aerial imagery. See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 March 2020

Architectural heritage

• The Cottage, house, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey house, built c. 1860, with abutting ranges of outbuildings to north arranged around a courtyard. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves and timber eaves brackets and red brick chimneystacks. Dressed limestone walls with cut and tooled quoins. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed opening with red brick voussoirs and timber panelled door flanked by carved pilasters with console brackets with spoked fanlight above. Ranges of converted outbuildings with pitched artificial slate roofs and dressed limestone walls. Square-headed openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds and uPVC windows and limestone sills. Segmental-headed opening with red brick voussoirs and surround, timber panelled door with glazed sidelights and spoked fanlight. Segmental-headed carriage-arch to north range. Square-profile rock-faced rusticated limestone piers to front of site with cast-iron gates.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballinveala, about 1 in 5 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

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

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.

• Ballinveala, Crecora6 sales

Name

Ballinveala · Baile an Bhialaigh

Area

1,428,501 m² (142.85 ha, 352.99 acres)

Civil parish

Crecora, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Crecora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 155 households in the Crecora electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinroche East, Ballyfookoon, Ballygeale, Jockeyhall, Killanahan, Killonahan, Shanaclogh, Tonbaun

Placenames

Ballinveala 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.