Ballydoorlis

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydoorlis, from 2 m² to 155,205 m² (15.52 ha, 38.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballydoorlis 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.

• 19 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of a slatted house, roofed feed passage, slatted tank, cattle crush, holding pens and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25283

• 13 May 2024Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24201

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI019-184 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NNE-facing slope. Sub-circular area (28.8m N-S; 26.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.7m), best preserved SSW->NNE but lowers as it progresses up-slope NE->SE becoming scarp-like at S (H 0.45m; Wth 2.65m). Bank much denuded by cattle accessing interior, particularly along NE arc. Bank has been quarried out NNE->NE where a depression (D 0.85m; 12m N-S; 10m E-W) extends into N verge of interior. Level interior, under rough grazing. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-185 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope immediately below top of ridge, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (30m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.75m), with external fosse E->SSE (Wth 2m; D 0.1m). Bank best preserved W->E, but lowers E->S. Entrance (Wth 3.6m) at SW with large boulder defining W edge. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballydoorlis.

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 Ballydoorlis, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballydoorlis · Béal Átha Durlais

Area

577,228 m² (57.72 ha, 142.64 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcolman, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boughilbo, Corbally, Dooncaha, Dunmoylan, Grouselodge, Kilcolman, Knockbweeheen

Placenames

Ballydoorlis 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.