# Ballyhurst, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Ballynaclogh, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Hoiste.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 208,217 m² (20.82 ha, 51.45 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,587 m² (2.06 ha, 5.09 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Ballynaclogh, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballynaclogh.md
- Barony: Coonagh
- Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32373
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120274
- Centre: latitude 52.553866, longitude -8.325217 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhurst, from 1,060 m² to 64,403 m² (6.44 ha, 15.91 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1591862: 64,403 m² (6.44 ha, 15.91 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591862.md
- Parcel 1672496: 50,079 m² (5.01 ha, 12.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672496.md
- Parcel 1669484: 45,967 m² (4.6 ha, 11.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1669484.md
- Parcel 1591937: 33,839 m² (3.38 ha, 8.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591937.md
- Parcel 1672497: 7,335 m² (0.73 ha, 1.81 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1672497.md
- Parcel 3267307: 3,569 m² (0.36 ha, 0.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267307.md
- Parcel 3267306: 1,970 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267306.md
- Parcel 1591861: 1,060 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1591861.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

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.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 24 Mar 2023, Limerick County Council 23173: Conditional. Permission. (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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/23173/0

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 Ballyhurst.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI024-051: Moated site, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-051----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-231----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-264----. 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

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)

- House, 1840–1860, Regional interest, registry number 21902435, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902435. 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.

## 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 Ballyhurst, about 1 in 5 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 Ballyhurst.
- 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/ballyhurst.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhurst.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhurst.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballyhurst 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)

- Ballynaclogh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynaclogh.md
- Ballyshoneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen.md
- Kilduff: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilduff.md
- Knockballyfookeen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockballyfookeen.md
- Tullabeg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tullabeg.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.

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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/ballyhurst
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyhurst