Ballykevan West
Ballykevan West is a townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Chiabháin Thiar.
- Area
- 84.1 ha
- 208 acres
- Land parcels
- 15
- registered freehold, median 4,248 m² (0.42 ha, 1.05 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykevan West, from 404 m² to 495,500 m² (49.55 ha, 122.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballykevan West 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
11 Feb 2025Conditional
the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling house. The works include the demolition of existing rear extension, elevational changes to the original house to include a new roof with roof windows, a new rear two-storey extension, the decommissioning of existing septic tank system and installation of a new replacement wastewater system and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560109
19 Jan 2021Conditional
construction of a single storey granny flat extension to the east side of the existing dwelling house, demolition of existing conservatory and part of back hall & WC, renovation, alteration and extension of existing dwelling house to include single storey dining room extension to the south side, replacement of existing wastewater treatment system and percolation area, extension to existing site boundaries, installation of a temporary mobile home for the construction phase and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2149
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballykevan West.
Recorded monuments
- LI037-114 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In poorly drained rough grassland, 90m E of townland boundary with Ballyhahill, a ringfort (LI037-114----) lies 55m to the SSW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Monument visible as circular enclosure on ASI aerial photographs taken 18/09/2005. Monument visible as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp with fosse, bank and external fosse on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. An external bank from E-S-W is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/09/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and ASIAP taken 18/09/2005. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 20 April 2021
- LI037-119 Barrow - ditch barrow
Description
In poorly drained rough grassland. Ringfort (LI037-114----) 55m to NNE Faint cropmark of small circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 11m) defined by a ditch visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 31 May 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykevan West.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballykevan West, about 1 in 20 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballykevan West.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballykevan West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballykevan West · Baile Uí Chiabháin Thiar
- Area
- 840,718 m² (84.07 ha, 207.75 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Cloncagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 353 people lived in 109 households in the Cloncagh electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballinruane, Ballyhahil, Ballykevan East, Frankfort, Teernahilla
- Placenames
- Ballykevan West 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.