Ballydoorty

23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballydoorty, from 529 m² to 348,374 m² (34.84 ha, 86.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballydoorty 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.

• 12 Jun 2025Conditional

  construction of a slatted cubicle house, feed passages, slatted tanks, re-roof existing cubicle house, construct slatted tank in existing cubicle house and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25191

• 19 Jul 2021Conditional

  changes to the house design and site layout that were previously granted planning permission under planning reference 20/1260. The changes proposed include an increase in external plan dimensions and resultant increase in total floor area, alterations to windows, internal layout and site layout

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211030

• 1 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a one and a half storey dormer dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance, mechanical aeration unit, percolation area using stratified sand polishing filter and all ancillary site works and associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201260

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 Ballydoorty.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 2.6m) with external fosse (D 1.45m; Wth 4m), both covered by briars and bushes. Gap (Wth 2.4m) in bank at NE. Interior level, dry and covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/ 17 on 05/10/2002.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house with dormer attic, built c. 1800, having recent porch to front (south-east) and recent breakfront box bay window to side (south-west). Later two-bay single-storey gable-fronted return and two-bay lean-to to rear (north-west). Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to porch with carved timber bargeboards. Pitched artificial slate roof to return with rendered chimneystacks and uPVC rainwater goods. Corrugated composite roof to lean-to extension. Rendered walls throughout with roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth to rear return. Rendered cornice to box bay window. Square-headed window openings with rendered sills throughout, having raised render reveals and timber casement windows to front elevation. Timber-framed bipartite window openings to box bay window and southern bay of front elevation, having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows to side (north-east) and rear elevations with dressed stone sills. Cast-iron framed casement windows to rear elevation of lean-to and side (south-west) elevation of return. Square-headed door opening with tooled stone step and timber panelled door to front elevation surmounted by four-pane overlight. Set back from road within rendered enclosing walls with rendered coping, having rendered gate piers with wrought-iron gates. Rendered stile to rear of house. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to side (north-east). Various farm outbuildings arranged around yards to north and west.

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 Ballydoorty, about 1 in 5 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_518 (ZIP).

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

Name

Ballydoorty · Baile Uí Dhúrtaigh

Area

1,644,058 m² (164.41 ha, 406.26 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mahoonagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

550 people lived in 188 households in the Mahoonagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynakill More, Ballynoe, Ballynoe, Cooliska, Curragh, Gortskagh

Placenames

Ballydoorty 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.