Ballyhomin

28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhomin, from 77 m² to 390,191 m² (39.02 ha, 96.42 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Ballyhomin 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.

• 29 Sept 2020Conditional

  demolition of existing cattle handling unit and replacing with new cattle handling unit incorporating cattle crush, holding pens and seepage tank

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20973

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyhomin.

Recorded monuments

• LI011-040 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle SW-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map (1841) as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-041 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope; in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular area (38m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.9m) N->SSW, and enclosed by dry-stone field wall (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.85m), running along E side of avenue, SSW->N. Bank becomes scarp-like N->NE, but best preserved and flat-topped (Wth 3m) ENE->SSW. Interior slopes down to E and has uneven surface perforated by limestone outcrops; newly erected ESB pole in SE quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-042 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In paddock area, on W-facing slope below brow of low hill. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on gentle S-facing slope in area of limestone outcropping. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. 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 Ballyhomin.

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

The EPA radon map did not answer.

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_548 (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.

No address of the register names Ballyhomin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyhomin · Baile Thoimín

Area

1,396,746 m² (139.67 ha, 345.14 acres)

Civil parish

Askeaton, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Askeaton East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

626 people lived in 229 households in the Askeaton East electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 18% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyengland Lower, Ballyengland Upper, Ballynort, Cragmore, Moig South

Placenames

Ballyhomin 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.