# Ballydonnell, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Dhónaill. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,418,743 m² (141.87 ha, 350.58 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,463 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Mahoonagh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/mahoonagh.md - Barony: Glenquin - Electoral division: Broadford, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 993 people lived in 349 households in the Broadford electoral division. 85% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31696 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120210 - Centre: latitude 52.375523, longitude -8.973458 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonnell, from 34 m² to 335,199 m² (33.52 ha, 82.83 acres); 31 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1607985: 335,199 m² (33.52 ha, 82.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607985.md - Parcel 1598579: 318,595 m² (31.86 ha, 78.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598579.md - Parcel 1647518: 291,607 m² (29.16 ha, 72.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647518.md - Parcel 5834436: 278,763 m² (27.88 ha, 68.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5834436.md - Parcel 1603851: 201,546 m² (20.15 ha, 49.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603851.md - Parcel 1650459: 188,132 m² (18.81 ha, 46.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650459.md - Parcel 1669109: 61,545 m² (6.15 ha, 15.21 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669109.md - Parcel 1662231: 16,882 m² (1.69 ha, 4.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662231.md - Parcel 5765848: 6,307 m² (0.63 ha, 1.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5765848.md - Parcel 1596982: 4,321 m² (0.43 ha, 1.07 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596982.md - Parcel 1662873: 3,963 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662873.md - Parcel 3268428: 3,615 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3268428.md - Parcel 1589996: 2,715 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589996.md - Parcel 1665630: 2,680 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665630.md - Parcel 1600003: 2,516 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600003.md - Parcel 3907844: 2,410 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907844.md - Parcel 1673526: 2,272 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673526.md - Parcel 1630491: 2,110 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1630491.md - Parcel 1666951: 2,090 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666951.md - Parcel 1613033: 2,028 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1613033.md - Parcel 1601873: 1,713 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601873.md - Parcel 3968337: 1,696 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968337.md - Parcel 1671975: 1,529 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671975.md - Parcel 1601433: 1,315 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601433.md - Parcel 3968331: 684 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968331.md - Parcel 1625134: 216 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625134.md - Parcel 1640904: 205 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640904.md - Parcel 1600624: 146 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600624.md - Parcel 1663983: 100 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663983.md - Parcel 3968352: 34 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3968352.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 29 Jul 2025, Limerick County Council 25256: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, slatted tanks, exit yard, drafting unit, cattle crush and concrete apron. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25256/0 - 20 May 2025, Limerick County Council 25159: N/a. Permission. the construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, collecting yard, slatted tanks, exit yard, drafting unit, cattle crush and concrete apron. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25159/0 - 2 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 2599: Conditional. Retention. alterations to existing office/garage, shed as constructed, new gym and relocated vehicular entrance. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2599/0 - 12 Jan 2023, Limerick County Council 2311: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a slatted cubicle house and concrete aprons. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2311/0 - 29 Oct 2021, Limerick County Council 211510: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system, entrance and associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211510/0 - 31 Mar 2021, Limerick County Council 21394: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/21394/0 - 29 Jan 2021, Limerick County Council 2177: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2177/0 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 Ballydonnell. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI045-032: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI045-032----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI045-033----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI045-034----. 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 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) - House, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21904502, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904502. 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. ## 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 Ballydonnell, 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 low, partly inferred. - 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, 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/ballydonnell.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonnell.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballydonnell.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballydonnell 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) - Appletown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/appletown.md - Coolygorman: https://everytownland.com/limerick/coolygorman.md - Feohanagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/feohanagh.md - Gortmore: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortmore-121146.md - Rathpalatine: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathpalatine.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/ballydonnell - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballydonnell