Ballyhurst

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhurst, from 1,060 m² to 64,403 m² (6.44 ha, 15.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 9 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyhurst 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.

• 24 Mar 2023Conditional

  (1) the demolition of existing dormer bungalow and outbuildings, (2) the construction of a new detached bungalow, (3) the revised location of entrance to site. Permission is also being sought for the installation of a temporary mobile home for the period of the site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23173

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 Ballyhurst.

Recorded monuments

• LI024-051 Moated site
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 170m W of a stream, which marks townland boundary with Knockballyfookeen (O'Dwyer 1959, 73; Barry 1981, 83). Annotated 'Rathbaun' on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map and depicted as a square-shaped earthwork. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a roughly square-shaped area (38m NE-SW; 33m NW-SE) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.45m; Wth 3.6m) best preserved at NW and NE with external fosse (overall Wth c. 4.35m; D 0.5m) that has been filled in at SE and SW, possible entrance gap (Wth 4m) at WSW. There are livestock gaps (Wth 1.5m and Wth 3m) at NW and NE where the bank is reduced to a scarp. Monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped tree-covered earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 15 July 2020

• LI024-231 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture abutting the townland boundary with Ballyshoneen and Ballynaclogh. Enclosure (LI024-233----) 20m to SW. The ringfort (LI024-052----) known as ‘Rathaniska’ lies 50m to SE. The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 104; AP 4/3672) as a circular enclosure (ext. diam. c. 30m). The site is obscured by shadow on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 104 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

• LI024-264 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying poorly drained rough pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses, immediately N of a townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Enclosures (LI024-231/233----) lie 70m to E and 75m to SE, respectively. Monument identified as a penannular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 160: AP 4/3677). Monument is not visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2011-2015 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 160. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1840–1860 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1850. Hipped slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered walls having render quoins and render platband. Square-headed openings, paired to outer bays, with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, those to ground floor having render label mouldings. Square-headed door opening with flanking render pilasters and cornice, replacement uPVC door and sidelights. Rendered boundary wall to front of site with roughcast panels, render copings and wrought-iron pedestrian gate flanked by square-profile piers.

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

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Ballyhurst.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballyhurst with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyhurst · Baile Hoiste

Area

208,217 m² (20.82 ha, 51.45 acres)

Civil parish

Ballynaclogh, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Grean, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grean electoral division: 1,548 people in 533 households; 82% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynaclogh, Ballyshoneen, Kilduff, Knockballyfookeen, Tullabeg

Placenames

Ballyhurst 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.