Ballybrien

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrien, from 1,844 m² to 271,155 m² (27.12 ha, 67 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballybrien 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.

• 24 Feb 2026Conditional

  construction of a new calf shed & associated underground soiled water tank & ancillary external concrete. The above development to be carried out with all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660199

• 13 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, provision of a waste water treatment system, provision of a private well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560560

• 28 Jun 2023Conditional

  a single storey extension to the south side of the existing dwelling and revised site boundaries. Permission is also being sought for (a) construction of a single storey extension to the north side of the existing dwelling house, (b) elevational changes to front and rear elevations and (c) all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360460

• 31 Aug 2022N/a

  extension of permission for planning ref 17/348: construction of a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 227020

• 20 Apr 2017Conditional

  construction of a new two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank and percolation area, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17348

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 Ballybrien.

Recorded monuments

• LI057-034 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 250m N of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Lisnalanniv. Farmhouse depicted at this location on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 36m NW-SE; 23m NE-SW). Visible as a faint cropmark on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Earthwork appears to represent the levelled remains of the farmhouse depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, 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 Ballybrien.

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.

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

Name

Ballybrien · Baile Uí Bhriain

Area

2,065,755 m² (206.58 ha, 510.46 acres)

Civil parish

Ballylanders, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Cullane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Cullane electoral division: 408 people in 141 households; 89% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anglesborough, Ballyduff, Derrylahan (Co. Cork), Fahanasoodry, Knockadea, Lackendarragh, Lisnalanniv

Placenames

Ballybrien 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.