Ballybeggane
Townland in the civil parish of Cloncagh, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Bheagáin
- Area
- 115.3 ha
- 285 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 13,742 m² (1.37 ha, 3.4 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybeggane, from 1,898 m² to 586,794 m² (58.68 ha, 145 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballybeggane 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
6 Sept 2021Conditional
the construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with soil filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211247
12 Apr 2017Conditional
to retain elevations, raised roof and height and extension to the south-west corner to existing pre 1964 shed, permission to retain slatted unit together with all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 17312
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 Ballybeggane.
Recorded monuments
- LI037-027 Moated site
Description
In level dry pasture. Roughly rectangular area (c. 40m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 3m) WNW->N and E->SSE; scarped edge N->E. External fosse (Base Wth. c. 8.00m; D 1.5m) WNW->SSE with traces visible SSE->SSW. Raised rectangular area (8m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by a scarped against inner side of earthen bank in NW corner of interior. Westropp (1906-7, 228) identifies this as possibly site of Ballymurely Castle, though also locates same castle in Maryville (LI037-094---) c. 3.5 km to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-112 Mound
Description
Close to S bank of stream (c. 9m from stream) is an artifically raised area (H c. 1.4m), most of which is covered by dense thorn bushes so that its exact form was not discernable. According to local information this is known as 'a Fort' as is the nearby moated site (LI037-027----). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 August 2012
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybeggane.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately low, 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 Ballybeggane.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballybeggane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybeggane · Baile Uí Bheagáin
- Area
- 1,153,084 m² (115.31 ha, 284.93 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cloncagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Cloncagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Cloncagh electoral division: 353 people in 109 households; 92% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballykennedy South, Ballynarooga More (South), Cloncagh, Frankfort, Teernahilla
- Placenames
- Ballybeggane 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.