Ballygeana

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygeana, from 2,121 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres) to 746,841 m² (74.68 ha, 184.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballygeana 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.

• 3 Nov 2025Conditional

  a new dwelling, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561127

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: Galtee Mountains SAC 000646
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Galtee Mountains 000646

Recorded monuments

• LI050-023002 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on Carrignabinnia Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Baunteen, Ballygeana and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-023001-/003-) lie 50m to the SW and 75m to the SE, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-023003 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on Carrignabinnia Mountain, on the townland boundaries between Ballygeana and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-023001-/002-) lie 70m to the W and 75m to the NW, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-024 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the ridge between Carrignabinnia and Slievecushnabinnia, on the townland boundaries between Ballygeana and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-023001-/025001-) lie 150m to the NW and 190m to the E, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

• LI050-025001 Cairn - boundary cairn
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the ridge between Carrignabinnia and Slievecushnabinnia, on the townland boundaries between Ballygeana and Carrigeen Mountain. Boundary cairns (LI050-024/-025002-) lie 190m to the W and 40m to the E, respectively. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Mound’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small circular-shaped mound. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 November 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygeana, 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 high, 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 Ballygeana.

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

Name

Ballygeana · Baile Uí Ghéibheannaigh

Area

2,600,655 m² (260.07 ha, 642.64 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Riversdale, the unit of the census

Census 2022

272 people lived in 98 households in the Riversdale electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baunteen, Carrigeen Mountain, Kilscanlan, Knockanebrack, Lyre (Co. Tipperary)

Placenames

Ballygeana 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.