Ballyhoolahan

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoolahan, from 1,080 m² to 126,376 m² (12.64 ha, 31.23 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 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 Ballyhoolahan 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.

• 20 Oct 2022Conditional

  demolition of existing cottage and to construct a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 221130

• 23 Aug 2021N/a

  demolition existing cottage and to construct a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211195

• 22 Dec 2017Conditional

  Extension of Permission for planning file ref no. 12/684: the construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 177057

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077

Recorded monuments

• LI017-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. Formerly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) has been truncated W->SE by field boundaries forming right-angled corner at NE; boundary on N side has been removes leaving break in slope to mark its course. Enclosing element survives SE->W and consists of two concentric earthen banks. Both inner bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) and outer bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.2m) are clear of overgrowth; distance apart of banks crest-to-crest is 7m. Interior dips down gently towards centre and is covered by tall grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI017-016 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Circular area (28m N-S; 27m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening (Wth 3m) fosse. Inner bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2.75m) and external bank (int. H 1.5m; ext. H 0.8m) covered by mature trees. Outer bank overlain or replaced by field boundary NNE->SSW. Break in bank (Wth 1.25m) with causeway across fosse at NNE. Interior level and partially overgrown by bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI017-048 Well
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular well (diam. 0.8m) enclosed by mortared stone wall which rises to height of 1.5m above water level. Opening (Wth 0.4m) faces W and is covered by lintel, above which is partially-collapsed stone arch. No indications of holy use. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Fort Shannon, house, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1800, having projecting bays to east and north elevations and gabled porch to south elevation. Range of outbuildings adjoining north-west elevation. Hipped slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, rendered chimneystack and render eaves course. Pitched roof and timber eaves course to porch. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings and limestone sills throughout, tripartite timber sliding sash windows to east, north and south elevations. Replacement uPVC windows to south and north elevations, east and west elevations of east wing. Six-over-six-pane timber sliding sash windows to east elevation and west elevation of outbuildings. Square-headed opening to east elevation having timber panelled door, bipartite sidelights and overlight. Concrete steps to entrance. Segmental-arched opening to south elevation of porch, with timber panelled door, sidelights and fanlight. Concrete step to entrance. Square-headed opening to south elevation having glazed timber door. Square-headed opening to west elevation with timber battened door. Walled garden to south of building. Pair of square-profile roughly-dressed stone walls flanking double-leaf cast-iron gate to north-west of building.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballyhoolahan, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyhoolahan.

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 Ballyhoolahan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyhoolahan · Baile Uí Uallacháin

Area

431,573 m² (43.16 ha, 106.64 acres)

Civil parish

Loghill, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,207 people lived in 491 households in the Glin electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagaul, Ballynamuddagh, Farranmiller

Placenames

Ballyhoolahan 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.