Ballymacave

27 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacave, from 902 m² to 201,421 m² (20.14 ha, 49.77 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Ballymacave 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.

• 22 Aug 2019Conditional

  an extension to the side of the existing dwelling and alterations to the existing dwelling and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19831

• 16 Mar 2017Conditional

  construct a single storey extension to the eastern gable of an existing bungalow consisting of two bedrooms, office, bathroom, kitchen, utility room, living room, decommissioning of the existing septic tank, and installation of a new proprietary wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17232

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 Ballymacave.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-040 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In pasture, in SE corner of field, on W bank of stream. No visible surface trace evident. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 203) well, dedicated to St. James, 'disappeared in a drainage scheme'. It was visited on eve of feast (25th June) at dawn, and rags were hung on the bushes (ibid.). 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 Ballymacave.

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 5 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_647 (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 Ballymacave with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballymacave · Baile Mhic Ádhaimh

Area

1,069,161 m² (106.92 ha, 264.2 acres)

Civil parish

Croagh, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Rathkeale Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathkeale Rural electoral division: 315 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Amogan Beg, Amogan More, Ballywilliam Demesne, Croagh Commons, Parklewis

Placenames

Ballymacave 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.