# Ballycullen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Lismakeery, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Choilín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,063,291 m² (106.33 ha, 262.74 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 6,428 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 9 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Lismakeery, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/lismakeery.md - Barony: Connello Lower - Electoral division: Askeaton West, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31953 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120206 - Centre: latitude 52.589533, longitude -9.001493 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycullen, from 56 m² to 337,402 m² (33.74 ha, 83.37 acres); 15 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1601681: 337,402 m² (33.74 ha, 83.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601681.md - Parcel 1616009: 131,198 m² (13.12 ha, 32.42 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616009.md - Parcel 1674239: 114,825 m² (11.48 ha, 28.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674239.md - Parcel 1669955: 14,676 m² (1.47 ha, 3.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669955.md - Parcel 4970747: 6,428 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4970747.md - Parcel 1645479: 5,549 m² (0.55 ha, 1.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645479.md - Parcel 1624682: 2,262 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624682.md - Parcel 1607705: 2,199 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607705.md - Parcel 1612786: 56 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612786.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 9 applications, newest first. - 4 Sept 2026, Limerick County Council 2661032: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661032/0 - 29 May 2026, Limerick County Council 2660616: N/a. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660616/0 - 8 Jan 2026, Limerick County Council 263: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/263/0 - 23 Dec 2025, Limerick County Council 2561392: Refused. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561392/0 - 12 Jun 2025, Limerick County Council 25189: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25189/0 - 27 Feb 2019, Limerick County Council 19165: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. change of use from residential to pre-school. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19165/0 - 23 Feb 2018, Limerick County Council 18165: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a slatted shed. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18165/0 - 31 Oct 2017, Limerick County Council 171002: N/a. Permission. the change of use from residential to pre-school. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171002/0 - 6 Sept 2017, Limerick County Council 17830: N/a. Permission. the change of use from residential to pre-school. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/17830/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballycullen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI010-149: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-149----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI019-059----. 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. 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) - Ballycullen House, country house, 1750–1770, Regional interest, registry number 21901916, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901916. Detached three-storey country house, built c. 1760, with tripartite fanlighted doorway. Restored in the 1970s. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_510.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycullen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycullen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycullen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballycullen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Aghalacka: https://everytownland.com/limerick/aghalacka.md - Ballyclogh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyclogh-120190.md - Ballyellinan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyellinan.md - Baunreagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baunreagh.md - Cloonreask: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonreask.md - Lismakeery: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lismakeery.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycullen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballycullen