Ballyfeerode

46 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfeerode, from 230 m² to 277,263 m² (27.73 ha, 68.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballyfeerode 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.

• 23 Aug 2021Conditional

  erection of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211194

• 15 Jul 2019Conditional

  the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 19696

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 Ballyfeerode.

Recorded monuments

• LI057-023 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In improved pasture 575m W of the Ahnalushnia Stream that marks the townland boundary with Kilgarriff. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Infants' Burial Gd.’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is shown as a sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 17m NE-SW; 13m NW-SE). Annotated ‘Infants' Burial Gd. (Disused)’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Small hollow depression and faint outline of levelled burial ground visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021

• LI057-025 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture 55m W of the Ahaphuca River that marks the townland boundary with Cullane South. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular enclosure. It is shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised, roughly oval-shaped, area (dims. c. 52m NW-SE; 40m E-W) defined by a fosse from SW-W-N, incorporated into a field boundary from N-SE. Westropp described this site as ‘a ring-fort with a diamond-shaped annexe’ (1916/17, 22). Visible as an irregular-shaped area delimited by trees on Google Earth orthoimages with faint trace of annexe visible to SSE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 10 November 2021

• LI057-075 Enclosure
  Description

  Reported by Tom Fox, Teagasc, and inspected on 15th April 2011. Consists of curving bank (c. 50m N-S; c. 35m E-W), with very low profile though clearly evident, on east side of a field boundary that is also a townland boundary; no evident trace of enclosure on west side of boundary. The enclosure is crossed by an east-west field boundary in its northern third. The area is under pasture. See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Architectural heritage

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

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

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyfeerode · Baile an Phiaróidigh

Area

1,999,271 m² (199.93 ha, 494.03 acres)

Civil parish

Darragh, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Griston, the unit of the census

Census 2022

309 people lived in 117 households in the Griston electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintober, Cullane South, Kilgarriff, Ruppulagh, Tulla

Placenames

Ballyfeerode 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.