Ballyblake

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyblake, from 444 m² to 450,716 m² (45.07 ha, 111.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyblake 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.

• 23 May 2023Conditional

  porch to front of existing building and extensions to the right hand side and rear. Permission for a waste water treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360346

• 13 Apr 2017Conditional

  for the demolition of existing substandard dwelling house and out buildings, relocation of existing vehicular entrance, construction of replacement dwelling house, new septic tank and percolation area, garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17317

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 Ballyblake.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-193001 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a natural rise, situated in a shallow depression running N-S, in low-lying improved, pasture, with good views to N and S. Ring-barrows (LI023-193002-/003-) are conjoined to SW and W, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 16101: AP 4/3694). Low dome-shaped mound (diam. 5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3m) and an external bank (Wth 2m). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 16101. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 September 2020

• LI023-193002 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a natural rise, situated in a shallow depression running N-S, in low-lying improved, pasture, with good views to N and S. Ring-barrows (LI023-193001-/003-) are conjoined to NE and NW, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 16102: AP 4/3694). Low dome-shaped mound (diam. 5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3m) and an external bank (Wth 2m). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 16102. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 September 2020

• LI023-193003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  On a natural rise, situated in a shallow depression running N-S, in low-lying improved, pasture, with good views to N and S. Ring-barrows (LI023-193001-/002-) are conjoined to E and SE, respectively. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a small circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff AP 4/3694). Low dome-shaped mound (diam. 5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.3m) and an external bank (Wth 2m). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 3 September 2020

• LI023-204 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 160: AP 4/3694) and described by Doody (2008, 131) as a 'subrectangular ditched enclosure, 29m N-S x 25m E-W, with both internal (c. 3m wide, 1m high) and external (c. 3m wide, 0.3m high) bank. Possible entrance gap at S side of inner bank where ditch is shallower; ditch 1.2m deep, c. 6m wide at the top'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013

• LI023-249 Enclosure
  Description

  On a slight W-facing slope in pasture 75m W of the townland boundary with Ballybricken South. Ring-barrows (LI023-193001-/003-) located 280m to SW, ring-barrows (LI023-190001-/002-) 210m to NE. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is clearly visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 262 AP 4/3693) as an enclosure. The site comprises as curving cropmark adjoin two corners of a relic field forming a wedge-shaped enclosure (ext. diam. c. 38m N-S; 17m E-W). The enclosure is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 262 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 1 September 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyblake.

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

The Geological Survey did not answer.

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.

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

Name

Ballyblake · Baile an Bhlácaigh

Area

806,496 m² (80.65 ha, 199.29 acres)

Civil parish

Caherelly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballybricken, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,932 people lived in 646 households in the Ballybricken electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybricken North, Ballybricken South, Caherelly West, Friarstown, Gortboy

Placenames

Ballyblake 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.