Ballyaglish
Ballyaglish is a townland in the civil parish of Iveruss, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile na hEaglaise.
- Area
- 105.3 ha
- 260 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 31,801 m² (3.18 ha, 7.86 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyaglish, from 489 m² to 207,857 m² (20.79 ha, 51.36 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Ballyaglish 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
27 Mar 2026Conditional
the construction of a single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, new site entrance from the public road, new access passage, additional new entrance at the proposed dwelling house location, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660343
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 Ballyaglish.
Recorded monuments
- LI011-010 Ringfort - rath
Description
In scrubland, on E-facing slope below brow of ridge. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by thorn thicket and briars. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-011 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on break in gentle E-facing slope. Rectangular slightly raised area (21.6m N-S; 22.8m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.57m). Bank best-preserved S->SW, becomes scarp-edge like SE->S. Site heavily masked by vegetation cover. Relatively level interior covered with briars. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-012 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on level terrain. Oval area (39.7m N-S; 36m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.6m) with external fosse (D 0.55m; Wth 1.1m). Bank, much denuded by cattle, becomes scarp-like in places. Bank is overlain by field boundary system SW->ESE. Fosse is waterlogged and best preserved along S arc; it feeds into an underground drain at E. Entrance (Wth 3.8m) at SE approached by farm passage. Interior, covered by mature apple trees, is heavily poached by cattle. 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 Ballyaglish.
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 Ballyaglish, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyaglish.
- 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 Ballyaglish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyaglish · Baile na hEaglaise
- Area
- 1,053,174 m² (105.32 ha, 260.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Iveruss, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Castletown, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinvoher, Ballynacourty, Ballynort, Beagh, Drominoona, Galway, Issane
- Placenames
- Ballyaglish 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.