Ballyagran

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyagran, from 125 m² to 748,441 m² (74.84 ha, 184.94 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyagran 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.

• 21 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, entrance walls, wastewater treatment system with percolation area and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561379

• 10 Jun 2025Conditional

  The Existing Conservatory Extension At The Side Of The Dwelling

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560548

• 15 Jun 2022Conditional

  an existing domestic garage

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22680

• 27 Jul 2021Conditional

  10 year permission for the development consisting of a total area of 2.8 hectares and comprises of the following: extraction of underlying sand and gravel material from an area of 2.4 hectares, at an average depth of 5 meters, down to a level of 104.5mOD; processing of material using mobile plant; transportation of material off site via a proposed access road measuring 0.4 hectares; restoration of the site for agricultural use and all associated ancillary facilities/works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211067

• 7 May 2020Conditional

  the construction of 3 no. dwellings, domestic garages, proposed 3 new entrances, connect to public sewer and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 20363

• 8 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of an extension to the rear of an existing dwelling and associated renovation works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19213

• 22 Oct 2018Conditional

  a new dwelling house, entrance walls and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 181033

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  demolition of existing single storey rear extension and to construct a two storey rear extension and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171221

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 Ballyagran.

Recorded monuments

• LI046-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at foot of S facing slope; area immediately to S and E low-lying and poorly drained with remains of shallow quarry now covered by scrub and thorn. A roughly circular raise platform (27.2m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 2m). The enclosing element varies in nature due to the sloping ground against which it is built. On N side in an intervening fosse (Wth 2m) and an external bank (H 0.95m; Wth 2.2m), whereas on SE side is a second (H 1.2m; Wth 2m) and third (H 1.3m; Wth 2m) scarped edge. There is a very slight indication of an external fosse (Wth c. 3m; D c. 0.1m) around the entire enclosure. There is no evident entrance of an entrance though a number of paths have been worn through the enclosing element bu cattle. The enclosing element is covered by trees and scrub with some erosion evident from poaching. The interior has a noticeably uneven surface and there is a shallow quarry on its E side (9m x 4m; D 0.8m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 29 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1860–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1870, with gable-fronted breakfront end-bay and flat-roofed porch to front (east). Pitched and hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Render cross finial to apex of breakfront gable. Rendered walls throughout having render stringcourse between ground and first floors. Round-headed window openings with stone sills and hood mouldings to first floor in single and paired arrangements. Camber-headed windows with stone sills to ground and first floors, having render hoodmouldings and surrounds to first floor openings. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Round-headed door opening to porch, having rendered surround and hood moulding to double-leaf timber panelled door and single pane fanlight, having limestone threshold. Located within own grounds having rendered enclosing wall with square-profile gate piers with steel gates.

• Saint Michael's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1960–1965 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding cruciform-plan double-height Roman Catholic Church, dated 1964, comprising four-bay nave, having three-bay transepts to sides (north, south) with flat-roofed porches to front elevations. Single-bay single-storey porches to front (east) and side (south) of nave, side chapels to sides (south, west) of southern transept and side (north) of northern transept. Single-bay double-height chancel with later single-bay lean-to toilet block, single-bay flat-roofed store and four-bay single-storey sacristy to side (west) elevation. Pitched artificial slate roofs with rendered eaves courses and cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat bitumen clad roofs to transept porches, side chapels, outbuilding and sacristy. Corrugated-iron lean-to roof to toilet block. Concealed rainwater goods to sacristy and transept porches with cast-iron downpipes and aluminium rainwater goods to sacristy. Attached pebbledashed chimneystack to side (west) elevation of chancel having render cross motif. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth throughout having rendered platbands to corners. Rubble stone cladding to front and side (north, south) elevations to nave. Square-headed window openings with raised render reveals and sills throughout, having lead-lined lattice work windows with stained glass margins, occurring in single, double and triplet arrangements. Rendered voussoirs, sill and block-and-start surround to front elevation of nave, having lead-lined lattice work window with stained glass margins. Square-headed four-light window openings with raised render reveals, mullions and sills to clerestory of side (north, south) elevations of nave and front elevations of transepts having lead-lined lattice work windows with stained glass margins. Triangular-headed window openings with render sills, surrounds and mullions to front elevation of nave having seven-pane lead-lined lattice work windows with stained glass margins. Triangular-headed window openings with render sills, surrounds and mullions to front elevation of front porch and side (south, north) elevations of transepts having five-pane lead-lined lattice work windows with stained glass margins. Square-headed door openings with raised render reveals, rendered block-and-start surrounds and stepped approaches throughout, having single- and double-leaf timber battened doors with overlights. Vaulted ceiling with render panelling throughout interior with ribs springing from rendered pilasters. Balcony to eastern end of nave having decorative render motifs. Mosaic tiled floors throughout interior with marble altar rail enclosing chancel area having tiered marble floor, carved marble altar with polychrome columns and tiled panel to reredos with rendered surrounds. Altars with statues of Blessed Virgin Mary and the Sacred Heart to transepts also containing statues of Saint Patrick and Saint Joseph. Marble baptismal font within enclosed booth to west end of nave with double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Located within own grounds with four-stage bell tower to east, having pitched artificial slate roofed render belfry surmounted by render cross finial. Snecked stone clad walls with square-headed window openings and square-headed door opening to side (west) elevation, having timber battened door. Stone clad enclosing walls with render coping and square-profile piers having render capping supporting single and double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having later porch to front (south) and two-bay single-storey addition to side (east). Now in use as a public house. Hipped thatched roof to house with artificial slate roof to porch. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to addition with uPVC rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with render sills and replacement timber casement windows throughout. Square-headed door openings throughout, having double-leaf timber panelled doors to porch, giving access to internal double-leaf glazed timber doors. Double-leaf timber battened doors to front elevation of addition. Situated fronting directly on to street.

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

About 1 in 10 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 Ballyagran.

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.

No address of the register names Ballyagran with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyagran · Béal Átha Grean

Area

1,299,258 m² (129.93 ha, 321.05 acres)

Civil parish

Corcomohide, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballyagran, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyagran electoral division: 506 people in 199 households; 80% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Cloonee, Drewscourt East, Rossbane

Placenames

Ballyagran 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.