Ballygiltenan Upper
Ballygiltenan Upper is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfergus, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhic Giolla tSeanáin Uachtarach.
- Area
- 455 ha
- 1,124 acres
- Land parcels
- 74
- registered freehold, median 6,397 m² (0.64 ha, 1.58 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
74 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygiltenan Upper, from 81 m² to 370,461 m² (37.05 ha, 91.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballygiltenan Upper 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
12 May 2026N/a
(1) partial construction of a two storey extension to existing cottage , the installation of a mobile home, hard standing and all ancillary works, (2) Planning permission for the completion of the two storey extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, change of elevation of existing dwelling, modifications to out-buildings, reinstatement of entrance, construction of a pump house and all ancillary works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660533
26 Nov 2019Conditional
construction of a one storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191162
7 Nov 2018Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181079
2 Mar 2018Conditional
construction of a new dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage with associated wasterwater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance boundary fences and related site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18186
7 Mar 2017Conditional
construct a new dwellinghouse and detached domestic garage with associated wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance boundary fences and related site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17211
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballygiltenan Upper.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballygiltenan Upper.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballygiltenan Upper, 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 Ballygiltenan Upper.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballygiltenan Upper with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballygiltenan Upper · Baile Mhic Giolla tSeanáin Uachtarach
- Area
- 4,549,959 m² (455 ha, 1,124.32 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfergus, and its townlands
- Barony
- Shanid
- Electoral division
- Kilfergus, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 442 people lived in 178 households in the Kilfergus electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 16% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygiltenan Lower, Glenagragara, Killeany More, Kinard, Tooraree Lower, Tooraree Upper, Tullyleague
- Placenames
- Ballygiltenan Upper 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.