Ballybrown

6 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrown, from 442 m² to 353,642 m² (35.36 ha, 87.39 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 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 Ballybrown 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 Ballybrown 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 Ballybrown.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-084 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing hill slope, immediately S of avenue leading to derelict farmhouse. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.75m), with external fosse (D 0.8m; Wth 2.6m) WSW->ESE. Bank, best preserved NE->SE, lowers at SW for c. 6m. Fosse, best preserved W->NW, narrows along N arc where avenue clips outer edge. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-085 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, near base of W-facing slope into marshy area. Circular area (diam. 56m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.65m) with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 1.8m); both heavily masked by bracken. Bank, best preserved along W side, lowers at S (ext. H 0.5m). Fosse, best preserved S->W, has trace of counterscarp bank along outer edge at W (ext. H 0.3m). Field boundary, travelling on E-W axis, truncates enclosing element at N. Interior, mainly covered with flag irises, has slightly raised sub-rectangular area (26m N-S; 36m E-W) in SE quadrant covered with bracken. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-010 Enclosure
  Description

  In elevated level pasture. Indicated on 1923 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular hachured area (c. 30m N-S; c. 32m E-W). No extant trace remains. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 83; site no. 3). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Field boundaries have been removed in vicinity of site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure bisected by NE-SW field boundary on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled on NW side of boundary. Now evident as semicircular area (24m N-S; 13m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1m) NE->SW, with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.2m) SE->SW, and defined by linear field boundary on NW side. Interior slopes down slightly to NW and is partially covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballybrown.

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

Name

Ballybrown · Baile an Bhrúnaigh

Area

554,517 m² (55.45 ha, 137.02 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Ballyallinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballyallinan electoral division: 421 people in 151 households; 84% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aughalin, Ballyallinan South, Ballybrown, Kiltanna, Knockaderry

Placenames

Ballybrown 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.