# Ballycahane Middle, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballycahane, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Chatháin Láir. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 998,232 m² (99.82 ha, 246.67 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,179 m² (0.32 ha, 0.79 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballycahane, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballycahane.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Kilpeacon, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 561 people lived in 192 households in the Kilpeacon electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30703 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120181 - Centre: latitude 52.55843, longitude -8.66727 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahane Middle, from 1,852 m² to 4,443 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1653751: 4,443 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653751.md - Parcel 1674216: 4,334 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674216.md - Parcel 3267586: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267586.md - Parcel 1602074: 1,852 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602074.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycahane Middle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) No planning application touches the townland of Ballycahane Middle in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycahane Middle. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-068: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-068----. In pasture on a slight W-facing slope with moderate views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 38m) defined by a field boundary enclosing a tree-planted interior. No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. The outline of the levelled monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS map, possibly the remains of a post-1700 tree plantation. Known locally as the site of a 'fort' (SMR File). See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 July 2020 - LI022-069: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-069----. In pasture on a slight S-facing slope with good views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-074----) located 170m to SE. Surveyed by ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 28m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 2m) with an external fosse (H 0.3m; base Wth 1.95m) visible from E to NW. Trees have been planted on the scarp while the shallow fosse appears in-filled in many areas. The interior is level. The overgrown enclosing element is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 July 2020 - LI022-074: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-074----. In low-lying pasture with Ballycahane Cottage 170m to WNW. Enclosure (LI022-069----) 170m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 30m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a field boundary enclosing a tree-planted interior. No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS map, possibly the remains of a post-1700 tree plantation associated with Ballycahane Cottage. See attached Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 July 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycahane Middle. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballycahane Middle, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_933, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_933.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-middle.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-middle.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-middle.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycahane Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballycahane Lower: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-lower.md - Ballycahane Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-upper.md - Ballyregan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyregan-120397.md - Dromloughan North: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dromloughan-north.md - Fearoe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fearoe.md - Killanahan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killanahan.md - Maryville: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maryville.md - Shanaclogh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/shanaclogh-121804.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane-middle - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballycahane-middle