Ballyculleen
Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Choillín
- Area
- 174.4 ha
- 431 acres
- Land parcels
- 38
- registered freehold, median 5,452 m² (0.55 ha, 1.35 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyculleen, from 71 m² to 209,398 m² (20.94 ha, 51.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballyculleen 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
27 Apr 2024Conditional
the construction of an extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling comprising ground floor living accommodation and first floor sanitary facilities, the reconfiguration of the existing entrance to the R516, together with all associated incidental ancillary and site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460388
14 Dec 2023Conditional
a single storey dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, site entrance, and all associated site works above and below ground. Permission is also being sought for change of use of the existing cottage to a hobby room ancillary to the use of the new dwelling
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360933
15 Nov 2022Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling house, a wastewater treatment system, new roadside entrance and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 221210
26 Sept 2019Conditional
(A) demolition of a part of existing cubicle shed, (B) construction of a milking parlour, dairy & ancillary rooms and collecting yard with underground slatted tanks, (C) construction of cubicle shed over existing underground slatted tank and proposed underground slatted tanks, (D) erection of an external milk silo, feed bin and an external water storage tank, (E) construction of silage pits and all other associated site works. (F) Retention Permission is also sought got a storage shed
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19950
11 May 2018Conditional
a side extension to dwelling consisting of a sunroom and associated site works. Retention Permission is also sought for increased floor area on ground floor and a detached domestic shed
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18457
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyculleen.
Recorded monuments
- LI031-084 Earthwork
Description
In flat pasture, 114m E of disused railway. Depicted on the 1840 OSi 6-inch map as raised circular-shaped area/platform defined by a scarp. Not depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map which suggests monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible levelled monument on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Faint traces of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/02/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 March 2021
- LI031-236 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
Cropmark of possible ditch-barrow (diam. c. 5m) visible on Google Earth photograph taken 14/02/2020 and on OSi orthoimage taken between 2005-12. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyculleen.
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 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyculleen.
- 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 Ballyculleen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyculleen · Baile an Choillín
- Area
- 1,744,079 m² (174.41 ha, 430.97 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Ballynabanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynabanoge electoral division: 330 people in 114 households; 82% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintaw, Glenbevan, Rosstemple, Rosstemple, Tullerboy, Tullovin
- Placenames
- Ballyculleen 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.