Ballyfoleen South

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfoleen South, from 55 m² to 214,175 m² (21.42 ha, 52.92 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 Ballyfoleen South 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.

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of a single storey house, detached garage, entrance, on site waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560836

• 18 Jul 2025Conditional

  A) demolish the existing single storey rear extension to the existing derelict dwelling house; (B) to renovate and restore the existing derelict dwelling house including elevational changes, together with internal alterations; C) to construct a new front porch, side and rear extensions onto the existing dwelling house, D) to renovate and restore existing derelict outbuilding to be used as garage and store, E) installation of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works and services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560706

• 11 Mar 2025Refused

  the construction of a single storey house, detached garage, entrance, on site waste water treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560193

• 16 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of a new house, garage, entrance & wastewater treatment system with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22536

• 1 Aug 2017Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17734

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  The proposed construction of a new storey dwelling house, single storey garage, septic tank, percolation area, site entrance, driveway, bored well, boundary fences and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 1777

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 Ballyfoleen South.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop low rise. Roughly circular area (30m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by denuded earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.5m) except at SE where truncated by field wall with NE-SW axis. Slight fosse evident at N (Wth 3.5m; D 0.1m). According to local information enclosing bank stood to height of c. 0.5m until partially levelled in 1980. Interior under pasture and slopes down towards centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Immediately SW of farmyard, on N-facing slope. Circular area (24m N-S) defined by scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 3.4m) steepest to N and E where land falls away from enclosure; very shallow fosse (Wth 2m) S->SW. Ruinous field wall (H c. 0.5m) follows curve of enclosure c. 2m outside bottom edge of scarp. Interior, overgrown with mature conifers, elders etc., dips slightly down towards centre; just E of centre is rectangular mound (4m N-S; 3m E-W; H 0.3m). A farm shed stands immediately outside enclosure to NE, and a hay barn stands short distance to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope. Circular area (26m N-S; 24m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.95m), best preserved NW->SSW. Bank is stone faced internally ENE->SSE. Gap in bank at WSW (Wth 3.5m). Entrance to NNE (Wth 6m) outside of which is terrace (Wth 4m) with curved edge defined by scarp (H 1.4m). Running concentric with enclosing bank, and c. 1m outside it, is much-collapsed field wall. Interior level and overgrown with elders. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture atop low rise. Circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 2.05m). Bank is faced with stones where incorporated into surrounding field boundary system W->S; field boundaries abut enclosure at NE, NW, W and S. Gap at SSE (Wth 3.9m) may be recent judging by fresh dump of earth and stone on W side. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

Architectural heritage

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

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 5 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

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

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

Name

Ballyfoleen South · Baile Phóilín Theas

Area

943,490 m² (94.35 ha, 233.14 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfinny, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Kilfinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfinny electoral division: 314 people in 103 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyfoleen North, Ballyknockane, Gortfadda, Kilbeg East, Kilbeg West, Kilfinny, Kilmacow

Placenames

Ballyfoleen South 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.