Ballylahiff

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylahiff, from 30 m² to 283,875 m² (28.39 ha, 70.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 13 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 Ballylahiff 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.

• 26 Mar 2026Conditional

  the existing storage shed and office space and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2681

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  front porch extension and conversion of attic space with front first floor windows

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24362

• 12 Jan 2023Refused

  the demolition of a section of the existing fence and construction of a new vehicular entrance to service the existing development with a proposed new entrance sign. Siteworks to include connection to the R521 carriageway road, alterations to existing landscape, new hard surface road, relocation of existing car parking spaces and all ancillary site works and services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 238

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  the erection of 814.13 m2 or 151.30 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the roof of our factory of Pallas Foods, Newcastle West with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22456

• 26 Nov 2021Conditional

  demolition of part of the existing building, alterations to the existing elevations of food distribution centre with the change of use of 753 sqm existing warehouse area into office accommodation, signage, alterations to the existing site layout and the provision 24 no. new car parking spaces which include accessible spaces, EV charging areas and set down area to front of building with all an ancillary landscaping and associated site works & services. Retention permission for the change of use of 328 sqm of existing warehouse into office accommodation

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211639

• 3 Sept 2019Conditional

  the change of use of part of the ground floor of the existing building from warehouse storage to offices, meeting rooms, gym, locker rooms, shower room, comms room, plant room including elevational alteration and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19876

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 Ballylahiff.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In waterlogged pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (39m NE-SW; 43m NW-SE) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse; enclosing element is covered with dense overgrowth. Inner bank (int. H 1.2m; ext. H 1.9m) incorporated into linear field boundary E->SSE. Gap in bank (Wth 3.4m) at SSW. Fosse (Wth 4.6m) evident all round but best defined NNW->ENE. Outer bank (int. H 1.3m to base of fosse; ext. H 1.1m) only evident NNW->NE. A linear field boundary extends SE from NE end of outer bank to form corner with field boundary which incorporates part of inner bank. Interior waterlogged and slopes gently down to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballylahiff.

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 10 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_437 (ZIP).

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 Ballylahiff with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballylahiff · Baile Uí Fhlaithimh

Area

592,039 m² (59.2 ha, 146.3 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newcastle Rural electoral division: 2,491 people in 875 households; 68% of households own their home; 53% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Churchtown, Doocatteen, Garranekeevan, Killard, Kilrodane

Placenames

Ballylahiff 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.