Ballycasey
Townland in the civil parish of Kildimo, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Ó gCathasaigh
- Area
- 255.4 ha
- 631 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 3,512 m² (0.35 ha, 0.87 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycasey, from 20 m² to 370,643 m² (37.06 ha, 91.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 22 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycasey 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
13 Jun 2026Conditional
construction of an outhouse ancillary to the existing dwelling house comprising home gym, toilet, storage area, and associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660662
17 Nov 2025Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561195
30 May 2022Conditional
the construction of an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22605
5 Jul 2021Conditional
2 no. single storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling and for an agricultural shed, cubicle house and associated concrete yards at the rear of the site. Planning permission is also being sought for the installation of a new wastewater treatment system with new percolation area including all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 21943
11 Jun 2021N/a
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, drive, sewage treatment unit and associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21817
5 Nov 2020Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201132
7 Sept 2020Conditional
construction of single storey dwelling house and detached single storey domestic garage, new on-site waste water treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 20884
31 Aug 2020Conditional
the construction of a garage not in full compliance with what was originally granted planning permission(planning permission reference number 05/809)
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20856
11 Jun 2020N/a
2 no. single storey extensions to the side and rear of the existing dwelling, an agricultural shed, cubicle house and associated concrete yards at the rear of the site, including all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20493
7 Jan 2020Conditional
the construction of a part single storey & part two storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, detached garage, new entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 207
27 Sept 2019Conditional
an extension to existing dwelling house and Retention Permission to retain existing external storage building including all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19958
27 Mar 2018Conditional
(a) retention of existing dwelling house within revised site boundaries, (b) demolition of single storey porch extension to side (south-west), (c) construction of single storey extensions to side and rear, (d) alterations to door ope to side (north-east) elevation to form 2 no. new window opes, (e) new waste water treatment system and percolation area and (f) all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18282
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
Recorded monuments
- LI012-040 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill; in NW corner of large field with public road immediately to W. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on N and W sides by field boundaries. Enclosing element survives E->SSE as scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 10m) containing wedge-shaped area (32m N-S; 34m E-W) otherwise enclosed by field boundary. Interior under pasture and slopes down gently to N. Both 1841 and 1923 OS 6-inch maps marks a "cave" immediately S of centre within enclosure, suggesting the presence of a souterrain, but there is no evident trace of any such feature. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
- Ashgrove House, house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
Description
Detached three-bay two-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1810, having adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to east elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks and render copings. Roughcast rendered walls. Roughcast render over brick walls to east elevation. Shallow pointed arch openings to first floor having inset square-headed one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, painted brick voussoirs and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to ground floor with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and painted stone sill. Square-headed opening having timber lintel and timber battened door. Pitched corrugated-iron roof to outbuilding. Painted rubble stone walls. Square-headed opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and painted stone sill. Square-headed opening having timber battened door.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 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; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_816 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballycasey with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycasey · Baile Ó gCathasaigh
- Area
- 2,553,794 m² (255.38 ha, 631.06 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kildimo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Adare North, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Adare North electoral division: 617 people in 210 households; 85% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballycasey 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.