Ballyhinnaught
Ballyhinnaught is a townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Shneachta.
- Area
- 184.5 ha
- 456 acres
- Land parcels
- 30
- registered freehold, median 3,488 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres)
- Zoning
- G5
- Open Space & Recreation
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhinnaught, from 108 m² to 452,400 m² (45.24 ha, 111.79 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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
- G5Open Space & Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - S5Education & Community Facilities (Mixed/general community services/facilities uses)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
8 Aug 2023Conditional
ball wall, astro turf pitch with perimeter fence including netting, astro turf LED lights and gravel path LED lights
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23403
16 Jun 2023Conditional
(1) and extension to the side of the existing dwelling, (2) two new windows to the side of the existing dwelling, (3) changes to the front porch and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23318
26 Feb 2021Conditional
construction of a general purpose store shed
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21229
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhinnaught.
Recorded monuments
- LI039-104 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level marshy pasture. Former circular enclosure now truncated on W and N sides by field boundaries. Survives as D-shaped area (18.2m N-S; 10.6m E-W) defined NNE->ENE by scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 2.1m) and enclosed ENE->SW by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.5m), with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 2.1m) NNE->SW; elsewhere enclosed by linear field boundary. Interior is level and, except along margins, covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI047-006 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle NW-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Arc of enclosing bank only shown SSE->NNW on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI047-008 Moated site
Description
In pasture, atop gentle rise on gradually undulating terrain. Monument, depicted as a rectangular enclosure (c. 60m N-S; c. 50m E-W) on 1923 OS 6-inch map has been levelled and there is now no evident surface trace of it. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyhinnaught.
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 Ballyhinnaught, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_955 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyhinnaught with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyhinnaught · Baile Shneachta
- Area
- 1,844,857 m² (184.49 ha, 455.87 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bruree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Bruree, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,294 people lived in 406 households in the Bruree electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bruree, Clogher East, Fortyacres, Garroose, Knocksouna, Tankardstown North
- Placenames
- Ballyhinnaught 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.