Ballybronoge South

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybronoge South, from 191 m² to 291,754 m² (29.18 ha, 72.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Ballybronoge South 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballybronoge South in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballybronoge South.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-021 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gentle undulating pasture on a slight SE-facing slope, immediately E of railway line, 40m S of the townland boundary with Ballybronoge North. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a circular shaped tree planted enclosure (approx. diam. 40m). Not marked on subsequent OS editions, likely that monument was levelled between the map dates. No surface remains visible of levelled monument on Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/02/2020. Possible levelled ringfort. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• LI021-025001 Settlement deserted - medieval
  Description

  In pasture on slight W-facing slope, immediately W of the townland boundary with Attyflin, to immediate N, E and W of Killasragh children’s burial ground (LI021-025002-) and a trackway (LI021-025003----). Excavations on the N20, 50m to the E, revealed an enclosure, a trackway and field system (LI021-025003; LI021-025----). Site visited by Celie O’Rahilly in 1990, during field work for the proposed N20, and described as ‘a complex of earthen and stone linear mounds some of which appear to be boundaries and some of which may be structural’ located to the N and W of the children’s burial ground (LI021-025002-) and ‘extending over the greater part of the field’. Present remains consists of a large area with a series of low undulations and low profile linear earthen banks (H 0.3-0.6m) forming several rectangular shaped paddocks or enclosures with a possible medieval road to W which appear to form the remains of a deserted medieval settlement site. This complex series of earthworks are visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12. Three of the most prominent features of this complex were surveyed in 2000 and described as following; Feature 1 which was described as an enclosure with annex, located 7.5m W of the children's burial ground (LI021-025002-) consisted of a slightly raised rectangular shaped area (dims. 36.5m N-S x 22m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.3m; H int. 0.3m; ext. 0.4m). The interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Immediately N of this enclosure there is a smaller rectangular annex (dims. 10m N-S x 14m E-W) defined by a similar earthen bank with a level interior. Feature 2 was described as a field system N of the enclosure (Feature 1), consisting of three parallel earthen banks (dims. L 30m; Wth 5.4m; H 0.4m-0.5m) which merge on the E side, forming an elongated shape enclosure roughly aligned E-W. The banks are low in profile but have irregular humps near the W end. To the NE of the children’s burial ground (LI021-25002-) there is Feature 3 which is the remains of a partial enclosure, consisting of a roughly L-shaped length of earthen bank that may be a partial enclosure or a relic field bank. The earthworks of this settlement site are visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken in 2020. Numerous banks and features are visible to the W, S and E on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13. See attached sketch plan of three features surveyed and drawn by Mark Keegan Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 21 July 2020

• LI021-025002 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In pasture on slight W-facing slope, 19m W of townland boundary with Attyflin, 200m N of townland boundary with Ballygeale, adjacent to earthworks of a possible medieval deserted settlement (LI021-025001-), trackway (LI021-025003-) and moated site (LI021-168----) located 193m to S. Excavations on the realignment Cork-Limerick (N20) road, 50m to the E revealed numerous features dating to the medieval period. Annotated 'Killasragh Childrens Burial Ground' on 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map. Described in 1840 as, 'Killasragh burying ground for children and adult strangers is situated in this townland' (OSNB Killonahan Parish, 1025). Burial ground used as a Killeen according to local tradition (Westropp, 1904-5, 380). Site visited by Celie O’Rahilly in 1990 during field work for the N20 road and described the site as following; ‘ The enclosure still survives but is very overgrown; it is possible that there are remains of a structure or enclosure wall on the perimeter’ (O’Rahilly 1991). Present remains consist of a roughly rectangular shaped area (dims. 30m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.7m; H int. 0.35m; ext. 0.2m) from NW through E to SE and an earth and stone scarp from SE through to NW. Interior is undulating and overgrown, with lightly strewn loose rocks, none of which appear to be set as burial markers. Monument visible as a tree-covered earthwork covered on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2020. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 21 July 2020

• LI021-025003 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  Identified in the archaeological EIS for the Adare-Annacotty Road (N20) by O’Rahilly in 1990. Test excavations undertaken by Ken Hanley in 1991 to the NW of Killasragh Children’s Burial Ground (LI021-025002-) the results of which were summarised as following; ‘Two areas were opened (c. 9m x 8m and 3m sq.) to investigate an apparent trackway which ran through the burial ground complex. Three sherds were found giving a 13th/14th-century date. Evidence for pre-trackway activity was also found’ (www.excavations.ie 1991, Site No. 086). Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 21 July 2020

• LI021-167 Ring-ditch
  Description

  Situated in pasture. An isolated hearth (LI021-185----) lies 70m to SE. Monument identified in 1999 as a possible prehistoric settlement during monitoring of topsoil-stripping on the N20/N21 Adare to Annacotty Road Improvement Scheme (Eogan and Finn 2000, 158-9). It was excavated (License No. 99E0324) by James Eogan and Damian Finn and was described as a penannular-shaped ring-ditch (overall diam. 7m) with the ditch (max. D 0.5m) having a U-shaped profile. The pattern of silting in the ditch may suggest that there was an external bank. The main fill of the ditch was a charcoal-rich silt in which fourteen token deposits of cremated human bone were found (Eogan and Finn 1999, 1). One of the deposits contained a copper-alloy spiral ring (NMI Reg. No. 99E0324:5:29 & 30) and part of a decorated bone (NMI Reg. No. 99E0324:5:2) that is similar stylistically to a gaming-piece found in a cremation under a barrow at Cush, Co. Limerick (ibid). These artefacts suggest an Iron Age date for the filling of the ditch and the deposition of the cremations. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 August 2020

• LI021-185 Hearth
  Description

  Situated in pasture, c. 65m to W of the townland boundary with Attyflin. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. A ring ditch (LI021-185----) lies c. 70m to NW. Monument identified as a hearth (Area B) during monitoring (Licence No. 08E0171) of topsoil stripping along the route of a Limerick County Council water mains upgrade running from Adare to Patrickswell (MacLeod & Coshman 2008, 3). Monument excavated under the same license in 1999 and described as a hearth (L 0.8m; Wth 0.7m; D 0.14m) containing a single charcoal-rich fill (ibid, 6). A circular-shaped posthole (diam. 0.31m; D 0.21m) which contained a single fill of silty clay with occasional charcoal flecking was located within the NE edge of the hearth (ibid). See attached location map and plan of excavated site taken from MacLeod & Coshman 2008 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_880 (ZIP).

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 Ballybronoge South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballybronoge South · Baile na mBruthnóg Theas

Area

677,154 m² (67.72 ha, 167.33 acres)

Civil parish

Killonahan, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Patrickswell, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Patrickswell electoral division: 1,490 people in 543 households; 80% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Attyflin, Ballybronoge North, Ballycarrane, Ballygeale, Killeen

Placenames

Ballybronoge South 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.