Ballinwillin
Ballinwillin is a townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Mhuilinn.
- Area
- 73.2 ha
- 181 acres
- Land parcels
- 8
- registered freehold, median 107,200 m² (10.72 ha, 26.49 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinwillin, from 1,998 m² to 206,410 m² (20.64 ha, 51.01 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballinwillin 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
17 Oct 2024Conditional
a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24410
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 Ballinwillin.
Recorded monuments
- LI038-143 Enclosure
Description
In tillage, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as arc of earthen bank (diam. c. 25m) E->W, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached four-bay single-storey with dormer attic thatched house, built c. 1800, having attached single-bay outbuilding to west corner of front (south). Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls with plinth band. Square-headed window openings with tooled stone sills and replacement timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening with glazed timber door. Enclosed farm yard to south with pitched corrugated-iron roofed outbuildings, having white washed rubble stone and a render walls with integral camber-headed carriage arch with white washed tooled stone voussoirs. Rendered rubble stone enclosing walls with square-profile piers and double-leaf wrought-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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballinwillin, about 1 in 10 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballinwillin.
- 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 Ballinwillin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballinwillin · Baile an Mhuilinn
- Area
- 732,408 m² (73.24 ha, 180.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bruree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Rockhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinoran, Ballyclogh Upper, Ballyfookeen, Ballyteige Upper, Coolreagh, Fort East, Garryfine
- Placenames
- Ballinwillin 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.