# Ballycahane, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Chatháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,033,814 m² (103.38 ha, 255.46 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,107 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 8 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilcornan, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilcornan.md - Barony: Kenry - Electoral division: Pallaskenry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,104 people lived in 392 households in the Pallaskenry electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32242 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120179 - Centre: latitude 52.633289, longitude -8.883381 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahane, from 69 m² to 133,885 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres); 16 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1644675: 133,885 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644675.md - Parcel 1623065: 131,660 m² (13.17 ha, 32.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623065.md - Parcel 1669761: 116,117 m² (11.61 ha, 28.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669761.md - Parcel 1623078: 97,457 m² (9.75 ha, 24.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623078.md - Parcel 1623069: 92,967 m² (9.3 ha, 22.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623069.md - Parcel 1623077: 77,628 m² (7.76 ha, 19.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623077.md - Parcel 1623066: 48,861 m² (4.89 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623066.md - Parcel 1644668: 48,858 m² (4.89 ha, 12.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644668.md - Parcel 4062219: 46,553 m² (4.66 ha, 11.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4062219.md - Parcel 1669734: 45,417 m² (4.54 ha, 11.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669734.md - Parcel 1623067: 27,314 m² (2.73 ha, 6.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623067.md - Parcel 1623075: 26,739 m² (2.67 ha, 6.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623075.md - Parcel 1623076: 25,478 m² (2.55 ha, 6.3 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623076.md - Parcel 1644676: 20,087 m² (2.01 ha, 4.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644676.md - Parcel 3798667: 19,846 m² (1.98 ha, 4.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798667.md - Parcel 1644667: 15,107 m² (1.51 ha, 3.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644667.md - Parcel 1623068: 13,766 m² (1.38 ha, 3.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623068.md - Parcel 3798683: 12,013 m² (1.2 ha, 2.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3798683.md - Parcel 1662432: 7,751 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662432.md - Parcel 1674246: 4,627 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674246.md - Parcel 1651123: 4,291 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651123.md - Parcel 2588180: 3,001 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2588180.md - Parcel 1650983: 2,707 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650983.md - Parcel 2588188: 2,330 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2588188.md - Parcel 1599163: 2,325 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599163.md - Parcel 1650695: 2,034 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650695.md - Parcel 1600541: 1,877 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600541.md - Parcel 5627482: 1,195 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5627482.md - Parcel 1644669: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644669.md - Parcel 1619359: 312 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619359.md - Parcel 1602306: 69 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602306.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballycahane 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) 8 applications, newest first. - 13 May 2026, Limerick County Council 2660538: Refused. Permission, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660538/0 - 21 Dec 2025, Limerick County Council 2561376: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage to include classic car storage, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561376/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Limerick County Council 2461261: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. a new dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. Outline Planning Ref. No. 21/490. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461261/0 - 18 Dec 2024, Limerick County Council 2461262: Conditional. Permission consequent, 1 home. a New dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, garage, entrance and all ancillary site works. Outline Permission reference no. 21/491. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461262/0 - 13 Dec 2024, Limerick County Council 2461250: Conditional. Permission. the refurbishment of an existing two storey dwelling and the construction of a single storey extension to the western side of existing dwelling, the replacement of an existing septic tank and percolation area with a newly constructed Septic tank and percolation area, and all ancillary site works including the removal of selected farm outbuilding. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2461250/0 - 16 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21490: Conditional. Outline permission. construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21490/0 - 16 Apr 2021, Limerick County Council 21491: Conditional. Outline permission. construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21491/0 - 8 Mar 2018, Limerick County Council 18210: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. construction of a dwelling house with modifications from the dwelling house design originally granted planning permission (ref. no. 14/1198), construction of stables and drilling of a well. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18210/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI011-132: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI011-132----. Atop low rise, in gently undulating pasture; terrain dips sharply down to N into valley. Circular area (26.7m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 5.9m) E->NNW; no enclosing element discernible NNW->E. Interior level and under pasture. Farmhouse, converted into farm shed, with new dwelling house standing alongside, lies 30m to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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. ## 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, about 1 in 10 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: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycahane. - 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.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycahane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycahane 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) - Ballyshonickbane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshonickbane.md - Cragreagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cragreagh.md - Drominaclara: https://everytownland.com/limerick/drominaclara.md - Graigues: https://everytownland.com/limerick/graigues-121188.md - Moig East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-east.md - Moig East Glebe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/moig-east-glebe.md - Summerville: https://everytownland.com/limerick/summerville.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 - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballycahane