Ballycoshown
Ballycoshown is a townland in the civil parish of Doon, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Cois Abhann.
- Area
- 83.9 ha
- 207 acres
- Land parcels
- 34
- registered freehold, median 6,851 m² (0.69 ha, 1.69 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycoshown, from 131 m² to 195,282 m² (19.53 ha, 48.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycoshown 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 Sept 2023Conditional
carrying out amendments to planning permission 22/651 so as to provide for revised alterations and extension to dwelling from that previously approved including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360671
9 Jun 2022Conditional
demolition of existing open porch, construction of a single storey extension to the rear of existing house at ground floor level, extension at first floor level consisting of an increase in floor space by the construction of a new gable to front elevation with two new gables to rear elevation, installation of a velux to front elevation, installation of 3 new windows to existing side elevation, upgrade existing septic tank to a wastewater treatment system with the installation of a new polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 22651
29 Apr 2022Conditional
the removal of an old derelict dwelling and the construction of a new dwelling, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22484
2 Nov 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211519
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
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballycoshown.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballycoshown.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballycoshown, about 1 in 10 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1247 (ZIP).
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballycoshown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballycoshown · Baile Cois Abhann
- Area
- 838,778 m² (83.88 ha, 207.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Doon, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Doon South, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,352 people lived in 507 households in the Doon South electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bilboa, Cappamore, Darkisland, Gortavalla North, Gortnascarry, Knocknacarriga
- Placenames
- Ballycoshown 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.