# Ballymackesy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Monagay, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Mhacasa.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 734,847 m² (73.48 ha, 181.58 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,294 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 5 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Monagay, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/monagay.md
- Barony: Glenquin
- Electoral division: Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 2,491 people lived in 875 households in the Newcastle Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% 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/31889
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120303
- Centre: latitude 52.435405, longitude -9.065038 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackesy, from 301 m² to 269,142 m² (26.91 ha, 66.51 acres); 50 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1624866: 269,142 m² (26.91 ha, 66.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624866.md
- Parcel 3266268: 186,915 m² (18.69 ha, 46.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266268.md
- Parcel 1650727: 105,870 m² (10.59 ha, 26.16 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650727.md
- Parcel 1608037: 80,441 m² (8.04 ha, 19.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608037.md
- Parcel 1674109: 24,835 m² (2.48 ha, 6.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674109.md
- Parcel 3487157: 5,938 m² (0.59 ha, 1.47 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3487157.md
- Parcel 1623561: 4,861 m² (0.49 ha, 1.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623561.md
- Parcel 1645390: 4,151 m² (0.42 ha, 1.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645390.md
- Parcel 1662782: 3,097 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1662782.md
- Parcel 1647785: 3,075 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647785.md
- Parcel 1597948: 2,875 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597948.md
- Parcel 1665793: 2,670 m² (0.27 ha, 0.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665793.md
- Parcel 1592282: 2,438 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592282.md
- Parcel 1611818: 2,428 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611818.md
- Parcel 1590557: 2,423 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590557.md
- Parcel 1665025: 2,403 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665025.md
- Parcel 1612985: 2,306 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612985.md
- Parcel 1627170: 2,283 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627170.md
- Parcel 1593886: 2,277 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1593886.md
- Parcel 1658689: 2,253 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658689.md
- Parcel 1603924: 2,190 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603924.md
- Parcel 1667888: 2,186 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667888.md
- Parcel 1601849: 2,148 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601849.md
- Parcel 1623563: 2,109 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623563.md
- Parcel 1608542: 2,059 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608542.md
- Parcel 1656698: 2,048 m² (0.2 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656698.md
- Parcel 1588682: 1,945 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588682.md
- Parcel 1605514: 1,909 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605514.md
- Parcel 3266267: 1,632 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266267.md
- Parcel 1590030: 1,306 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590030.md
- Parcel 1605029: 1,278 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605029.md
- Parcel 3266266: 451 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266266.md
- Parcel 1598470: 400 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598470.md
- Parcel 1606449: 301 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606449.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 19 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024-01/newcastle-west-local-area-plan-2023-2029.pdf
- P1 Agriculture: Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 5 parcels. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024-01/newcastle-west-local-area-plan-2023-2029.pdf
- G5 Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other): Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024-01/newcastle-west-local-area-plan-2023-2029.pdf

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

5 applications, newest first.

- 2 Sept 2025, Limerick County Council 2560881: Conditional. Permission. the construction of a covered training area and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560881/0
- 24 Apr 2025, Limerick County Council 25127: Conditional. Permission. construction of a domestic garage/shed, plus all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25127/0
- 13 Feb 2025, Limerick County Council 2534: Conditional. Permission. the erection of 6 no. 15m high flood lights to perimeter the existing playing pitch and the erection of 12m high ball stop net at either end of the playing pitch and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2534/0
- 17 Jan 2025, Limerick County Council 2513: N/a. Permission. the erection of 6 no. 15m high flood lights to perimeter the existing playing pitch and the erection of 12m high ball stop net at either end of the playing pitch and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2513/0
- 7 Aug 2019, Limerick County Council 19775: Conditional. Retention. existing cottage and extension to the cottage, domestic garage, site layout and site boundaries as constructed and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/19775/0

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## 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 Ballymackesy.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI036-065: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-065----. In level pasture. Sub-circular area (22.6m N-S; 26.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.85m; Wth 1.4m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 2.6m) NE->W. A public road skirts outside edge of fosse W->NW. Deserted house and garden lies immediately to SSW. Interior level, dry and covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-066: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-066----. In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.5m), with slight trace of external fosse (D 0.1m) SSE->NNE. Drain has been cut along base of scarped edge NNE->SSE where field boundary skirts enclosure. Interior level and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-069: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-069----. In pasture, on slight SW-facing slope. Circular area (32.9m N-S; 30.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.35m; Wth 1.7m). Scarped edge most prominent E->WNW. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes slightly down to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-071: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-071----. In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on E and S sides by field boundaries. However, enclosing element survives SW->ENE as an earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) SW->ENE and defined by scarped edge SSE->SW. Entrance (Wth 2.6m) through bank at N. South side edge of site now defined by field drain. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth (48.4mm from bank to field boundary E-W; 36.3m from bank to drain N-S). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-193: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-193----. In damp pasture, on slight SW-facing slope. Circular area (18.6m E-W; 17.35m N-S) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2.95m). Entire site recently cleared of bushes and loose stones; surface now much churned up by farm machinery and also poached by cattle. Interior slopes down to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-218: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI036-218----. In grassland, with ringfort (LI036-066----) 1050 to SSE. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018. Could be the remains of a levelled ringfort. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Joe O'Connor Date of upload: 4 March 2021

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)

- Ballymackesy Cottage, farm house, 1840–1880, Regional interest, registry number 21903607, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21903607. Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c. 1860, having single-storey porch to front (east). Single-bay single-storey with dormer attic addition to rear (west) with lean-to extension and single-bay single-storey porch surmounted by later first-floor extension. Hipped slate roof having red brick chimneystacks, timber clad eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to rear addition with red brick chimneystack. Slate-lean to roof to extension. Flat roof to porch with concealed rainwater goods behind rendered parapet with moulded stringcourse, cornice and coping. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth to front elevation, having line-and-ruled rendered walls to rear first floor extension, rendered walls with plinth to front porch. Recessed bays to front and side (north, south) elevations of porch having moulded reveals above recessed rusticated render panels to front and side (north) elevations. Cast-iron vent pipe to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and two-over-two pane timer sliding sash windows. Double and triple light arrangements to front porch, having rendered mullions, sills, moulded reveals and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows surmounted by single-pane overlights. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to gable of rear addition. Blocked square-headed window openings to first floor extension to rear. Square-headed door openings throughout, having tooled stone stepped approach, moulded rendered reveals to side (south) elevation of front porch, now blocked. Exposed rubbed red brick voussoirs to side (south) elevation of rear porch having blocked glazed timber door. Enclosed cobbled farmyard to south-west enclosed by various single and two-storey barn and stable blocks. Single-storey carriage house to west with brick chimneystack and integral carriage arch with rubbed brick voussoirs. Square-profile tooled limestone gate piers to north at site of original main entrance having chamfered corners and carved capping supporting single-leaf wrought-iron gate.

## 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 Ballymackesy, about 1 in 20 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 low.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_440, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_440.zip (ZIP).
- 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/ballymackesy.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymackesy.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymackesy.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballymackesy 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)

- Ballinvallig: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinvallig.md
- Ballycluvane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballycluvane.md
- Gortyknaveen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/gortyknaveen.md
- Killeline: https://everytownland.com/limerick/killeline.md
- Knockane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockane.md
- Treanboy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/treanboy.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.

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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.

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