# Ballyknockane, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Chnocáin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 592,814 m² (59.28 ha, 146.49 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballingarry(Croom Ra), https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballingarry-croom-ra.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 970 people lived in 369 households in the Ballingarry electoral division. 75% of households owned their home. 39% of homes were built since 2001. 12% 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/30502 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120284 - Centre: latitude 52.492103, longitude -8.824524 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyknockane, from 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) to 156,484 m² (15.65 ha, 38.67 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 5523630: 156,484 m² (15.65 ha, 38.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5523630.md - Parcel 1602124: 2,310 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602124.md - Parcel 1674172: 2,284 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674172.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyknockane 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) No planning application touches the townland of Ballyknockane in the national file, which goes back to 2010. ## 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 Ballyknockane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI030-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI030-034----. In tillage, at base of NW-facing slope. Roughly circular area (26m E-W; c. 30m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.6m) NE->SSE, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.15m) SSE->WSW; enclosing element hidden by dense overgrowth WSW->NE. Field clearance stones have been dumped along foot of scarp at S and along external base of bank at NE. Gap in bank at E (Wth 2.1m). Interior covered by dense scrub. Site is depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as area planted with trees within demesne of Ballyknockane House. According to local information was once used as a burial ground. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006. - LI030-036: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI030-036----. In tillage, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 1.1m). Inner bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 2.7m) and outer bank (int. H 1.75m; ext. H 0.45m) both present steepest profile on NW side; outer bank replaced by field boundary N->SE and modified to form road boundary SE->SW. Interior covered by dense overgrowth. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyknockane. ## 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 Ballyknockane, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyknockane. - 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/ballyknockane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyknockane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyknockane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyknockane 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) - Ballyfoleen South: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyfoleen-south.md - Ballynahaha: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynahaha.md - Kilbeg East: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilbeg-east.md - Kilbeg West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilbeg-west.md - Kilmacow: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilmacow.md - Lissamota: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lissamota.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/ballyknockane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyknockane