# Ballyhobin, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballybrood, barony of Clanwilliam, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Hóibín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,069,155 m² (106.92 ha, 264.19 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,072 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballybrood, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballybrood.md - Barony: Clanwilliam - Electoral division: Kilmurry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Kilmurry electoral division: 911 people in 304 households; 96% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31465 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120269 - Centre: latitude 52.550333, longitude -8.453375 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhobin, from 340 m² to 334,492 m² (33.45 ha, 82.65 acres); 27 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1640445: 334,492 m² (33.45 ha, 82.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640445.md - Parcel 1653944: 277,937 m² (27.79 ha, 68.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653944.md - Parcel 1625894: 148,856 m² (14.89 ha, 36.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625894.md - Parcel 1674681: 4,147 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674681.md - Parcel 1636835: 3,793 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636835.md - Parcel 1631772: 2,822 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631772.md - Parcel 1593984: 2,353 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593984.md - Parcel 1625893: 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625893.md - Parcel 1673638: 2,155 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673638.md - Parcel 1617334: 2,074 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1617334.md - Parcel 1627136: 2,070 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627136.md - Parcel 1589026: 2,067 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589026.md - Parcel 1642094: 2,024 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642094.md - Parcel 1631892: 1,961 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631892.md - Parcel 1650550: 1,845 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650550.md - Parcel 1602096: 1,664 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602096.md - Parcel 1636772: 1,560 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636772.md - Parcel 1596846: 1,135 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596846.md - Parcel 1624980: 919 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624980.md - Parcel 1672004: 340 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672004.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhobin 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) 5 applications, newest first. - 10 Feb 2020, Limerick County Council 2091: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. domestic garage as constructed and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2091/0 - 30 May 2019, Limerick County Council 19526: Conditional. Permission. (a) to relocate existing vehicular entrance and driveway, (b) demolish existing garage & construct new garage to rear of site, (c) construct a new single storey extension to the side of existing house (which was previously extended under planning ref. 15/332), (d) provide 2 roof windows to existing attic bedrooms at front of existing house, and (e) all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19526/0 - 31 May 2018, Limerick County Council 18539: Conditional. Permission. upgrading of an existing site entrance onto a public road in order to facilitate a forestry operation. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18539/0 - 10 Apr 2018, Limerick County Council 18337: Conditional. Permission. alterations to the existing front elevation including the construction of a new entrance lobby and the retention of two existing skylights on the front elevation and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18337/0 - 24 Nov 2017, Limerick County Council 171091: Conditional. Permission. change of use of music studio to living accommodation, a link corridor, renovation and modification to existing sun room, construction of external chimney from proposed stove in sun room together with associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171091/0 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 Ballyhobin. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI023-052: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-052----. In gently undulating pasture. No visible surface trace of monument depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on OS 6-inch map. According to local information monument levelled in 1980s. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013 - LI023-201: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-201----. In improved wet pasture, 30m W of a watercourse. Enclosure (LI023-202----) 75m to E. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a substantial subrectangular-shaped earthwork by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 188: AP 4/3688). Monument is visible as a subrectangular-shaped earthwork (approx. 70m N-S; 60m E-W) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 05/04/2006 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 188. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 4 September 2020 - LI023-211: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-211----. In rough, wet pasture, 15m E of a townland boundary with Doonvullen Upper and 50m SE of a watercourse. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 149: AP 4/3661). Monument is visible as an irregular suboval-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 149. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 September 2020 - LI023-248: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI023-248----. On flat pasture partially bisected by the townland boundary with Rathjordan, 50m E of the townland boundary with Doonvullen Upper. Ring-barrow (LI023-211----) 250m to N. The site is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is faintly visible on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 282 AP 4/3658) as a ring-barrow comprised of a circular area defined by a fosse with an external bank (ext. diam. 38m E-W). The S tip of the monument is in Rathjordan townland bisected by the townland boundary. The ring-barrow is visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006 and 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the ring-barrow labelled Bruff 282 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 1 September 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 Ballyhobin. ## 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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballyhobin. - 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/ballyhobin.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhobin.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhobin.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhobin 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) - Ballybrood: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballybrood.md - Caherline: https://everytownland.com/limerick/caherline.md - Doonvullen Upper: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonvullen-upper.md - Mountminnett: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountminnett.md - Rathjordan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/rathjordan.md - Tonteere: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tonteere.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/ballyhobin - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyhobin