Ballymacrory
Townland in the civil parish of Croom, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Mhic Ruairí
- Area
- 95.5 ha
- 236 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 3,083 m² (0.31 ha, 0.76 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacrory, from 1,330 m² to 217,886 m² (21.79 ha, 53.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacrory 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
5 Jun 2025Conditional
construction of a dwelling house and domestic private shed to be served by a mechanical treatment tank and percolation area, new site entrance & all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2560530
18 Oct 2024Conditional
Extension of Permission for 19/424: a dwelling, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 247019
23 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, site entrance, detached garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20245
30 Apr 2019Conditional
a dwelling, entrance, effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19424
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballymacrory.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballymacrory.
Architectural heritage
- Cherrygrove Bridge, bridge, 1800–1805 · Regional interest
Description
Four-arch humpback road bridge, dated 1801, carrying a road over the River Maigue. Round-headed arches with cut limestone voussoirs. V-cutwaters to upstream elevation. Rubble limestone spandrel walls with dressed solider copings to parapet. Carved limestone plaque to parapet wall.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility 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 Ballymacrory.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballymacrory with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballymacrory · Baile Mhic Ruairí
- Area
- 955,094 m² (95.51 ha, 236.01 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croom, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshma
- Electoral division
- Ballynabanoge, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynabanoge electoral division: 330 people in 114 households; 82% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballymacrory, Ballynabanoge, Dohora, Glenbevan, Inchinclare, Tullovin
- Placenames
- Ballymacrory 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.