Ballybrennan
Ballybrennan is a townland in the civil parish of Cahernarry, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Bhraonáin.
- Area
- 23.7 ha
- 59 acres
- Land parcels
- 20
- registered freehold, median 1,506 m²
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrennan, from 26 m² to 117,213 m² (11.72 ha, 28.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 31 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 Ballybrennan 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 Aug 2026N/a
(1) a change of site layout to reposition the approved on-site waste water treatment system from that previously approved under permission 24/61017, (2) to extend the road side boundary piers and railing along remaining road frontage from that approved under permission 23/60544, and (3) permission to erect a signage structure at the approved site entrance position including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660904
13 Nov 2025Conditional
the development will comprise the construction of a light industrial use building complete with all necessary staff/welfare accommodation, offices and all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561177
11 Oct 2024Conditional
decommissioning an existing septic tank system and to install a new on-site effluent treatment system and polishing filter including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461017
28 Jul 2023Conditional
amendments to planning permission 18/334, namely the relocation of existing site entrance including new splayed entrance walls, piers and gates, together with new roadside boundary and all necessary changes and amendments to existing site boundaries and site layout and all associated site works. (The proposed works will coordinate with footpath and bus stop improvement works proposed by Limerick City + County Council Active Travel Plan)
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360544
9 Apr 2018Conditional
small extension to existing commercial yard and retention for change of use for part of yard to car sales outlet for a temporary 5 year period, retention of fence to this area and portacabin sales office and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 18334
9 Apr 2018N/a
gate to agricultural field and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 18335
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 Ballybrennan.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballybrennan.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballybrennan.
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 Ballybrennan, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_999 (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 Ballybrennan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballybrennan · Baile Uí Bhraonáin
- Area
- 237,437 m² (23.74 ha, 58.67 acres)
- Civil parish
- Cahernarry, and its townlands
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Electoral division
- Ballysimon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Coolyhenan, Drombanny
- Placenames
- Ballybrennan 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.