# Ballyhaukish, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Knockainy, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Sheácais. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 446,854 m² (44.69 ha, 110.42 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 15,495 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Knockainy, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/knockainy.md - Barony: Smallcounty - Electoral division: Knockainy, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Knockainy electoral division: 784 people in 279 households; 86% of households own their home; 27% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31039 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120266 - Centre: latitude 52.480011, longitude -8.451113 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhaukish, from 4,156 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres) to 129,218 m² (12.92 ha, 31.93 acres); 11 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 4963830: 129,218 m² (12.92 ha, 31.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4963830.md - Parcel 1594614: 120,525 m² (12.05 ha, 29.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594614.md - Parcel 1594613: 83,703 m² (8.37 ha, 20.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594613.md - Parcel 1669994: 65,791 m² (6.58 ha, 16.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669994.md - Parcel 1624334: 15,495 m² (1.55 ha, 3.83 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624334.md - Parcel 1674087: 13,543 m² (1.35 ha, 3.35 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674087.md - Parcel 1643559: 10,049 m² (1 ha, 2.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643559.md - Parcel 4926680: 4,373 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4926680.md - Parcel 1594637: 4,156 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1594637.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhaukish in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 10 Aug 2026, Limerick County Council 2660918: N/a. Permission. a 10-year planning permission for the development of a solar farm on a site of 210 hectares consisting of the following: 843,000 sqm of solar photovoltaic panels on ground mounted steel frames; 29 no. hardstanding locations used for electrical skids; 3 no. electrical plant rooms; new internal access tracks; underground power and communications cables and ducts, including along the R513 and L1509 public roads; new access points from the R513, R516, L1509 and L51309 public roads, and upgrades to existing access points from the L1507, L1509 and L51309 public roads; landscaping and biodiversity enhancement measures; security gates; boundary fencing and all associated ancillary development, site works and services. The solar farm will be operational for 40 years. The planning application is accompanied by a Natura Impact Statement. This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660918/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhaukish. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI032-278: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI032-278----. In wet pasture, on a floodplain 142m SW of the River Mahore, which also marks a townland boundary with Ballynamona. Monument is not depicted on OSi historic maps, although the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map shows a small rectangular-shaped structure at this location, which is at the NW edge of a road running NE-SW. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 268: AP 5/2048) as a circular-shaped earthwork. Upstanding monument is visible as a faint oval-shaped earthwork (13m NW-SE; 12m NE-SW) on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, although it is not clearly visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image labelled 268 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 November 2020 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhaukish. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 Ballyhaukish. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhaukish.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhaukish.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhaukish.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhaukish with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballynamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamona-120354.md - Castlefarm: https://everytownland.com/limerick/castlefarm.md - Knockainy East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockainy-east.md - Knockainy West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockainy-west.md - Millfarm: https://everytownland.com/limerick/millfarm.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhaukish - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyhaukish