Ballycannon

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycannon, from 23 m² to 334,839 m² (33.48 ha, 82.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballycannon 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.

• 7 Apr 2025Conditional

  retain existing entrance as-built and planning permission to construct a new detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560303

• 11 Apr 2023Conditional

  the construction of five two storey detached dwelling houses with detached garages, each house to have a septic tank with packaged waste water treatment system, site entrances, site roads, site lighting and all associated site services

  Permission, 5 homes · Limerick County Council, 23200

• 17 Sept 2020Conditional

  the removal of existing conservatory at the rear of the dwelling and construction of a single storey extension to the rear and side of the dwelling, modifications to the existing dwelling, construction of a single storey detached domestic garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20930

• 9 Dec 2019Conditional

  an extension to the existing burial ground to incorporate laying of concrete footpaths providing access for 263 new grave plots and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191221

• 20 Dec 2018N/a

  construction of eight two storey detached dwelling houses, site entrance, site roads and all associated site services

  Permission, 8 homes · Limerick County Council, 181268

• 13 Feb 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission from Planning File Ref. No. 12/911 : the construction of a 12 ensuite room extension to existing Ballycannon Lodge Hotel, 2 no. four bedroom houses with garages, extension to garden centre sales area and woodland nature education park with visitor centre and Planning Permission for the construction of a children's playground including a pond within the woodland nature education park and all associated site works (reference no. of outline permission 08/2431)

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187004

• 23 Nov 2017Conditional

  a new entrance, close up existing entrance, and to erect a new workshop/storage shed for private domestic purposes and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171087

• 2 Jun 2017N/a

  construction of eight two storey detached dwellinghouses, site entrances, site roads & all associated site services

  Permission, 8 homes · Limerick County Council, 17511

• 17 May 2017Conditional

  permission to (A) construct rear extension & new front porch extension to existing house (B) elevational changes (C) construct new domestic garage (D) decommission existing septic tank and install new mechanical aerations unit and soil polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17446

• 28 Mar 2017Conditional

  to construct an entrance lobby/foyer to existing building

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17271

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 Ballycannon.

Recorded monuments

• LI020-122 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In natural hollow, in low-lying pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, is now bisected by E-W field boundary. On S side of boundary is D-shaped area (20m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.7m) E->W, with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 2.1m) NE->NW. Bank is best preserved SE->SW, lowers to scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1.9m) at WNW. Mainly waterlogged fosse becomes very shallow and dry at WNW. Level interior under pasture. No trace of monument evident on N side of boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI020-137 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as semi-circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on N side of E-W field boundary on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and field boundary removed. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, church/chapel, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built c. 1830, having three-bay nave, gable-fronted porch to south, two-bay single-storey sacristy to east and gable-fronted chancel to north elevation. Pitched slate roof with render cross finial. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course and limestone quoins. Pointed arch stained glass windows to nave and concrete sills. Pointed arch opening to south having limestone Y-tracery, block-and-start surround, voussoirs, sill and stained glass windows. Triple lancet stained glass windows to chancel with concrete sills. Square-headed openings to sacristy having replacement uPVC windows and concrete sills. Square-headed openings to porch, east and west elevations with double-leaf timber battened doors. Pointed arch opening beyond porch with chamfered rusticated limestone surround and glazed overlight over timber double-leaf doors. Timber scissors truss ceiling to interior with render corbels. Cast-iron columns supporting painted timber gallery to entrance. Pair of square-profile tooled limestone piers having carved caps and double-leaf metal gates, stone clad boundary wall terminating in pair of square-profile concrete piers with carved limestone pinnacle.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballycannon, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycannon.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballycannon with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballycannon · Baile Uí Chanann

Area

1,025,283 m² (102.53 ha, 253.35 acres)

Civil parish

Croagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Dromard, the unit of the census

Census 2022

916 people lived in 300 households in the Dromard electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Adamswood, Amogan Beg, Clogh East, Clogh West, Croagh, Gortreagh, Killea, Newpark

Placenames

Ballycannon 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.