Ballyart
Ballyart is a townland in the civil parish of Caherconlish, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Airt.
- Area
- 130.1 ha
- 322 acres
- Land parcels
- 27
- registered freehold, median 8,525 m² (0.85 ha, 2.11 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 9
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyart, from 473 m² to 169,763 m² (16.98 ha, 41.95 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballyart 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
11 Aug 2026N/a
the demolition of an existing dwelling house, replacement dwelling house as constructed and Planning Permission for the completion of all works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 26187
3 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of an extension at the side of dwelling, a dormer first floor extension to the existing dwelling and a new wastewater treatment system and all associated site works. Retention Permission is also sought for the construction of an extension at the rear of the existing dwelling.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25299
13 Feb 2025Conditional
renovation and extension of existing dwelling house and demolition of existing agricultural outbuildings
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2535
16 Dec 2024Refused
the conversion of an existing agricultural shed into a habitable single storey dwelling which will consist of a single storey side and front extension, waste water treatment system, site boundary, site entrance, access road and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24465
18 Oct 2024N/a
the conversion of an existing agricultural shed into a habitable single storey dwelling which will consist of a single storey side and front extension, waste water treatment system, site boundary, site entrance, access road and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 24408
11 Apr 2024Conditional
a partial demolition of a rear annex to the existing dwelling, demolition of an existing rear shed, refurbishment and alterations of the existing dwelling and permission for a two storey rear and side extension, a new biofiltration treatment unit and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 24146
5 Mar 2024N/a
the conversion of an existing agricultural shed into a habitable single storey dwelling which will consist of a single storey side and front extension, waste water treatment system, site boundary, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2474
26 Jan 2024Conditional
the construction of an agricultural structure which will accommodate a slatted tank, pens and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2425
18 Apr 2023Refused
a new detached dwelling, new potable well, new bio-filtration treatment unit, new detached garage and store, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 23212
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI014-054 Ringfort - rath
Description
Situated immediately S of a tributary of the Mulkear River in undulating pasture, with good views to W and S. Monument depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (c. 25m E-W; 20m N-S) is now obscured by dense scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 June 2013
- LI015-087 Enclosure
Description
This monument is evident as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on Google Earth and www.bing.com/maps/. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 June 2013
- LI015-088 Enclosure
Description
This monument is evident as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m) on Google Earth and www.bing.com/maps/. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 21 June 2013
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyart.
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 Ballyart, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1152 (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 Ballyart with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyart · Baile Airt
- Area
- 1,301,180 m² (130.12 ha, 321.53 acres)
- Civil parish
- Caherconlish, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Caherconlish East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 576 people lived in 187 households in the Caherconlish East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Brittas, Castle-Erkin North, Drombane, Eyon, Grange East, Woodfarm
- Placenames
- Ballyart 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.