Ballydonnell

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonnell, from 34 m² to 335,199 m² (33.52 ha, 82.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 31 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballydonnell 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.

• 29 Jul 2025Conditional

  the construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, slatted tanks, exit yard, drafting unit, cattle crush and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25256

• 20 May 2025N/a

  the construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, slatted tanks, exit yard, drafting unit, cattle crush and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25159

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  alterations to existing office/garage, shed as constructed, new gym and relocated vehicular entrance

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2599

• 12 Jan 2023Conditional

  the construction of a slatted cubicle house and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2311

• 29 Oct 2021Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211510

• 31 Mar 2021Conditional

  a part single storey and part storey and a half dwelling house, garage, effluent treatment system, soil polishing filter, revised entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21394

• 29 Jan 2021Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2177

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 Ballydonnell.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-032 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, at base of gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.75m) with external fosse (D 0.6m; Wth 3m). Interior and most of enclosing element are covered by dense overgrowth. Bank is levelled N->ESE. Gap (Wth 1.6m) in bank at WSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level wet pasture. Monument, depicted as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 24m) defined by a scarped edge with inner lip (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.35m), intermediate fosse (Wth 2m), and external bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.1m). Site divided in two by E-W running field boundary and drain. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey with dormer attic thatched house, built c. 1780, having later porch to front (south-east). Hipped thatched roof with central red brick chimneystack. Flat rendered roof to porch. Rendered walls throughout with rendered quoin bands to front elevation. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills throughout, having raised render surrounds and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to rear elevation window openings. Square-headed door opening with replacement uPVC door to porch. Enclosed concrete paved farmyard with two-bay two-storey barn with attached three-bay single-storey stable forming south-western range. Two-bay and three-bay single-storey outbuildings forming south-eastern range and single-bay single-storey single-pitched roofed shed forming north-eastern range. Recent concrete block enclosing walls having render-square-profile piers with galvanised iron gate. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs throughout with white-washed rubble stone and rendered walls. Single-storey barrel-vaulted shed to south-east. Rendered and rubble stone enclosing walls with rendered square-profile piers having render capping supporting double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

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

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.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballydonnell.

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.

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

Name

Ballydonnell · Baile Uí Dhónaill

Area

1,418,743 m² (141.87 ha, 350.58 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Broadford, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Broadford electoral division: 993 people in 349 households; 85% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Appletown, Coolygorman, Feohanagh, Gortmore, Rathpalatine

Placenames

Ballydonnell 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.