Ballydonohoe

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydonohoe, from 66 m² to 255,706 m² (25.57 ha, 63.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballydonohoe 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.

• 5 Mar 2026Refused

  demolition the existing derelict dwelling and shed and construct a story and a half dwelling house and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660247

• 8 Jul 2024Refused

  an entrance and drive-way and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460683

• 21 Jun 2024Refused

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLEUNT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS DRIVE & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 2460403

• 22 Apr 2024N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE WITH EFFLEUNT TREATMENT SYSTEM, ACCESS DRIVE & ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 2460240

• 18 Aug 2023Conditional

  the construction of a rear extension to the existing dwelling house, changes to the front elevation of the existing dwelling house, new replacement entrance, driveway, decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of a new replacement packaged wastewater unit and eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360597

• 6 Dec 2017Conditional

  the timber front boundary fence as constructed on site

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 171133

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Tarbert Bay 001386

Recorded monuments

• LI017-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI017-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballydonohoe House, house, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey villa style house, built in 1831, and substantially renovated in 1908. Comprising three-storey adjoining block to rear (north) elevation, with projecting end bays and central bow to rear elevation, bay window to east elevation. Single-storey porch to front (south) elevation. Hipped slate roof having cast-iron rainwater goods, red brick chimneystack and render eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Smooth render to east and west elevations. Render plinth course to south and east elevations. Rubble limestone walls exposed in places due to renovation work. Red brick exposed to south elevation of porch, with render stringcourse and render cornice over square-headed opening. Square-headed openings having render surrounds throughout. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows to south elevation. Two-over-two pane and six-over six pane timber sliding sash windows to east and west elevations. Replacement uPVC window to ground floor, west elevation. Nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to north and west elevations. Tripartite timber sliding sash window to rear elevation, central bay. Six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to north elevation, two-over-two pane, three-over-three pane and four-over-four pane timber sliding sash windows to ground floor of rear elevation. Timber sliding sash windows with stained glazed panels to bay window, east elevation. Square-headed opening to east elevation of porch having timber panelled door and overlight. Square-headed opening to west elevation with timber glazed door and overlight. Pair of square-profile rendered piers flanking single-leaf metal gate to south of building.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_305 (ZIP).

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 Ballydonohoe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballydonohoe · Baile Uí Dhonnchú

Area

1,615,819 m² (161.58 ha, 399.28 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfergus, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Glin electoral division: 1,207 people in 491 households; 74% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycullane Lower, Court, Kilmurrily (Co. Kerry), Tieraclea Lower (Co. Kerry)

Placenames

Ballydonohoe 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.