# Ballyhoolahan, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Loghill, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Uallacháin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 431,573 m² (43.16 ha, 106.64 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 5,510 m² (0.55 ha, 1.36 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Loghill, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/loghill.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Glin, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30756 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120273 - Centre: latitude 52.569102, longitude -9.318209 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhoolahan, from 1,080 m² to 126,376 m² (12.64 ha, 31.23 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1653722: 126,376 m² (12.64 ha, 31.23 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653722.md - Parcel 1663724: 86,602 m² (8.66 ha, 21.4 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663724.md - Parcel 1607811: 31,339 m² (3.13 ha, 7.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607811.md - Parcel 1624943: 11,126 m² (1.11 ha, 2.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624943.md - Parcel 1626856: 7,615 m² (0.76 ha, 1.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626856.md - Parcel 4679399: 5,816 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4679399.md - Parcel 1622451: 5,205 m² (0.52 ha, 1.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622451.md - Parcel 3369251: 4,123 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3369251.md - Parcel 1616323: 3,115 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616323.md - Parcel 1629032: 2,129 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629032.md - Parcel 3609036: 2,127 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3609036.md - Parcel 1647587: 1,080 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647587.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 3 applications, newest first. - 20 Oct 2022, Limerick County Council 221130: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. demolition of existing cottage and to construct a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221130/0 - 23 Aug 2021, Limerick County Council 211195: N/a. Permission, 1 home. demolition existing cottage and to construct a two storey dwelling, waste water treatment system and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/211195/0 - 22 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 177057: Conditional. Extension of duration. Extension of Permission for planning file ref no. 12/684: the construction of a dwelling house, garage, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/177057/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) - Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC, site code 002165, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/002165 - Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA, site code 004077, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004077 ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI017-015: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI017-015----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI017-016----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI017-048----. 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 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) - Fort Shannon, house, 1790–1810, Regional interest, registry number 21901703, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21901703. 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. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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 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/ballyhoolahan.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhoolahan.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhoolahan.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyhoolahan 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) - Ballynagaul: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagaul.md - Ballynamuddagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamuddagh-120360.md - Farranmiller: https://everytownland.com/limerick/farranmiller.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/ballyhoolahan - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyhoolahan