Ballyashea
Ballyashea is a townland in the civil parish of Kildimo, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Aisí.
- Area
- 85.8 ha
- 212 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 4,037 m² (0.4 ha, 1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyashea, from 411 m² to 387,257 m² (38.73 ha, 95.69 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballyashea 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
5 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of a single-storey dwelling house, alterations to the existing stone wall to form a vehicular entrance, the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560888
11 Apr 2022Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, drive, garage, sewage treatment unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22409
4 Apr 2019Conditional
alterations to permitted site boundaries under governing permission ref. number 18/941 and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19316
27 Sept 2018Conditional
a two storey dwelling house, garage, new entrance, on site treatment system and percolation area and associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 18941
28 Feb 2018Conditional
the construction of a cubicle house and calving pens
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18178
27 Oct 2017Conditional
a change of house design from that previously approved under planning application reference 16/360
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17999
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 Ballyashea.
Recorded monuments
- LI012-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In scrubland. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by thorn thicket. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI012-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope below brow of hill. Oval area (53.5m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 1.95m), with external fosse SW->NNE (Wth 2.1m; D 0.45m). Bank, best preserved along SW arc, has remains of stone facing NNE->SE. Field boundary (H 1.45m) runs along base of fosse WNW->NNE. Interior, covered with briars and ferns, slopes very gently down to N. Dry-stone field wall abuts enclosure at SE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI012-027 Ringfort - rath
Description
Atop low rise, in area of covered by thorn bushes and briars. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by impenetrable overgrowth. 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 Ballyashea.
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 Ballyashea, 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. Parts of the land are water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_737 (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 Ballyashea with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyashea · Baile Uí Aisí
- Area
- 858,307 m² (85.83 ha, 212.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildimo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kildimo, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahallee, Cloonnagalleen, Cragganacree, Glennameade, Kilmoreen, Knockroe
- Placenames
- Ballyashea 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.