Ballycullen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycullen, from 56 m² to 337,402 m² (33.74 ha, 83.37 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballycullen 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.

• 4 Sept 2026N/a

  the change of use of a portion of the existing domestic garden area to an outdoor preschool / early learning and childcare facility. The development will also include the construction of an accessible WC attached to the existing dwelling, the construction of an awning enclosed on 3 sides to the rear of the dwelling and the erection of a small timber storage shed for use in conjunction with the proposed preschool, together with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2661032

• 29 May 2026N/a

  the change of use of a portion of the existing domestic garden area to an outdoor preschool / early learning and childcare facility. The development will also include the construction of an accessible WC attached to the existing dwelling and the construction of an awning to the rear of the dwelling for use in conjunction with the proposed preschool, together with all associated site worksdevelopment works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660616

• 8 Jan 2026Conditional

  the installation of a 30 metre high lattice telecommunications support structure accommodating antennas, dishes, remote radio units (RRU's), lightning finial and all associated equipment; ground based equipment cabinets with compound enclosed by 2.4 metre high palisade fencing with a 1.0 metre wide access gate; fibre chamber; construction of a new access track connecting compound to the existing access track; concrete foundation and all associated site development works to provide for high-speed wireless data and broadband services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 263

• 23 Dec 2025Refused

  the construction of a single-storey building to be used as a seasonal outdoor preschool / early learning and childcare facility, together with ancillary accommodation including toilets & storage. The provision of a designated external play and learning area associated with the preschool use, including outdoor play structures, surfaced areas, fencing and landscaping, Provision of car parking, boundary treatments and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561392

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, slatted tanks, holding pen, cattle crush, calf houses, meal bin, roofed fed passage, roofed slatted feeding area, manure pit and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25189

• 27 Feb 2019Conditional

  change of use from residential to pre-school

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19165

• 23 Feb 2018Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18165

• 31 Oct 2017N/a

  the change of use from residential to pre-school

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171002

• 6 Sept 2017N/a

  the change of use from residential to pre-school

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17830

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 Ballycullen.

Recorded monuments

• LI010-149 Fulacht fia
  Description

  Excavation by Brian Halpin (02E0748) and described as 'heat-shattered stones and charcoal-rich material, typically associated with a fulacht fiadh.' This description is posted on the web at the following internet address (accessed 2 August 2012): http://www.excavations.ie/ Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 3 August 2012

• LI019-059 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  A castle held by the Nash family from at least the 16th century; they built a country house on the site in 1740 (Westropp 1906-7, 208). This house is a ‘3 storey eighteenth century house with a tripartite fanlighted doorway … plasterwork of mid-eighteenth century type in hall ceiling; staircase of good joinery with gallery.’ (Bence-Jones 1978, 20). The house was restored in the 1970s (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 3 August 2012 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

Architectural heritage

• Ballycullen House, country house, 1750–1770 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-storey country house, built c. 1760, with tripartite fanlighted doorway. Restored in the 1970s.

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 Ballycullen, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_510 (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.

No address of the register names Ballycullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballycullen · Baile Uí Choilín

Area

1,063,291 m² (106.33 ha, 262.74 acres)

Civil parish

Lismakeery, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Askeaton West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,232 people lived in 435 households in the Askeaton West electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 40% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalacka, Ballyclogh, Ballyellinan, Baunreagh, Cloonreask, Lismakeery

Placenames

Ballycullen 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.