Ballylooby

54 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylooby, from 46 m² to 288,051 m² (28.81 ha, 71.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 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 Ballylooby 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.

• 7 Jul 2026Conditional

  a dwellinghouse, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system, soil polishing filter and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660773

• 5 Dec 2025N/a

  the partial change of use of the existing community centre into a childcare facility along with retention permission for the existing storage shed to the rear of the community centre, this application refers to a protected structure Knockcarron National School (R.P.S Reg. 110)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561272

• 29 Apr 2024Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, stand alone garage, entrance and septic tank with percolation area

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24173

• 1 Jul 2022Conditional

  2 no. agricultural entrances along the L1512, and all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22745

• 5 Jul 2021Conditional

  construction of a dormer style dwellinghouse, garage, entrance waste water treatment system and percolation area with associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21944

• 4 Jun 2021Conditional

  alterations and extensions to their dwellinghouse and installation of a septic tank and percolation area.

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21794

• 8 Feb 2021N/a

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and percolation area with associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21132

• 3 Oct 2019Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house and associated site works including roadside entrance, septic tank treatment system and bored well

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19980

• 25 Apr 2017N/a

  to carry out alterations to existing school building and all associated site works. This is a protected structure.

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17367

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 Ballylooby.

Recorded monuments

• LI041-026 Cairn - burial cairn
  Description

  In pasture immediately S of a road that marks the townland boundary with Moanmore and the county boundary with Tipperary and 80m E of a low hill (OD 530 ft.) known locally as 'Knockcarron' [Cnoc an Chairn/Hill of the Cairn]. Depicted as a small circular-shaped earthwork on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Carn (site of)’ on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map with a quarry located 85m to SW which suggests that the monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. Folklore collected in 1938 by Art Loftus, a pupil of Emly School recorded the following details about Knockcarron and the levelling of the cairn; 'Knockcarron is a long low hill. It is situated south of Emly on the border of County Tipperary. It is just north of County Limerick. It is the site of the battle of Monmore in 1134 between the O'Conners and the O'Briens. the O'Briens army was across the hill. On the right of the army there was the lake which existed at that time. The O'Brien army was swept eastwards through Monmore, back in the direction of Cashel. On the south side of the hill there stood a cairn, up to a hundred years ago. The stones of the cairn were taken and they were broken & put on the roads. The cairn stood half way between the quarries. Some people say that there was an ancient grave yard & some say that it just happened that there were soldiers buried there after the battle. The older people could show you the different colour on the grass where the people are buried. Men quarrying on the north side of the hill dug up heaps of bones, which were probably there since the battle. The buried them nearby. South of the hill where the dairy house [Creamery] is bones were dug up when they tried to open a pump' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0580, Page 108; https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922298/4868208). See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 July 2021

• LI041-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture 200m W of the townland boundary with Bohercarron. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 30m NW-SE; 26m NE-SW) defined by a scarp. Surveyed by Henry A. Wheeler in 1966 and described as a well preserved circular-shaped platform ringfort with a shallow fosse. Outline of tree-lined monument is clearly visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 July 2021

• LI041-069 Hut site
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 70m E of the Bog River which marks the townland boundary with Ryves Castle. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a hut site in 1988 and placed on the Register of Historic Monuments on the 21/06/1988 where it is described as an 'Ancient House site' (No. 1463). No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached location map and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 5 August 2021

Architectural heritage

• Knockcarron National School, school, 1870–1875 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey school, built in 1873. Comprising gable-fronted porch to centre-bay front (south) elevation and recent single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Pitched slate roof with rendered copings and red brick chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls and limestone plaque to porch. Square-headed openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Pointed arch openings to east and west elevations with red brick block-and-start surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Oculus over pointed arch opening to east elevation. Square-headed opening to porch, east elevation having red brick block-and-start surround and timber battened door. Square-headed opening to porch, west elevation with red brick block-and-start surround and replacement uPVC door. Pair of square-plan dressed limestone piers to south with carved caps and rubble limestone boundary walls.

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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballylooby.

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

Name

Ballylooby · Baile Uí Lúbaigh

Area

1,807,025 m² (180.7 ha, 446.53 acres)

Civil parish

Galbally, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Duntryleague, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Duntryleague electoral division: 326 people in 132 households; 88% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynamona, Bohercarron, Lackelly East, Lissard, Moanmore (Co. Tipperary), Ryvescastle, Scarteen

Placenames

Ballylooby 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.