Ballymacsradeen West

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacsradeen West, from 3,943 m² (0.39 ha, 0.97 acres) to 241,225 m² (24.12 ha, 59.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 19 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 Ballymacsradeen West 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.

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter and site entrance together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560525

• 1 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1981

• 23 Nov 2018N/a

  the construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 181136

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 Ballymacsradeen West.

Recorded monuments

• LI031-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a S-facing slope, in pasture, overlooking the Camoge River, which lies 55m to S and marks a townland boundary with Tullovin. Earthwork (LI031-222----) lies 200m to SE. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork and depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork, which is truncated by a field boundary running E-W, across the S sector. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a suboval-shaped area (34m ENE-WSW; 28m NNW-SSE) enclosed by a bank (Wth 10.9m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.35m) from SE-S-W-NW and defined by a scarp (Wth 2.4m; H 0.2m) from NW-N-NNW. The bank is incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-E-SE. A fosse (Wth 3.7m; D 1.8m) is visible from NNW-N-E-SE and appears to have been re-cut as a drain. The interior has a gentle S-facing slope. The linear field boundary depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as truncating the S sector of the monument, has been removed. According to local information, this monument was levelled in 1975. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 October 2020

• LI031-222 Linear earthwork
  Description

  In level pasture, on the S-facing edge of a terrace, on the N-bank of the Camoge River. A ringfort (LI031-001----) is located 190m to WNW. The location is not recorded as an antiquity on historic OSi maps, although a field boundary (orientated E-W) is depicted along the terrace that runs parallel and above the N bank of the river. The field boundary is located parallel with the earthworks and is visible on both the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013. Inspected by the ASI in 2005 and recorded as numerous low-lying undulations and low raised areas located on level ground on the N-bank of Camoge River and on the scarp that form a terrace along the river. A linear bank (L59m; Wth 4.0m; int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.7m at river side) orientated E-W flanks the base of a natural high scarp. There is a gap (Wth c. 5m) in this bank roughly midway, and there are two linear mounds splayed outward toward river. A field boundary (orientated N-S) depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map has been removed. A level area of ground (Wth 2.2m) lies immediately behind the bank to the N. The bank and level area appear to be the remainder of the ‘battle trench’. The natural scarp (Wth 5.3m; H 2.65m) has a level area of ground (Wth 1.5-2m) on top, and the ground rises again to the N where a field boundary marks the S edge of a field in pasture. The earthworks are visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/04/2006; 16/03/2016; 25/03/2017 and 14/02/2020. Recent earthmoving and excavation works have been undertaken at the W end of the monument as recorded on Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/02/2020. Human remains were discovered in the field above the earthworks during land improvement works a number of decades ago (c. 1960 or earlier, based on local information in 2005 from the landowner). The earthworks are known locally as ‘Clash na Marbh’ or trench of the dead. According to local history, a battle was fought here in 1369 AD (associated with the Battle of Mainister). The landowner remembers his father telling a story of how when mounds on the high ground (to N of the terrace) were being levelled years ago, human bones were found. The area was covered back over. Local historian, Danny Quaine of The Mainister Local History Group, confirmed this tradition (pers. comm.) of the battle was between Brian Cath an Aonaigh and the Fitzgeralds (Desmonds). An area of the Camoge River (to NE of battle site) known as ‘Poill an Cro’ or the pool of blood. This was an extremely deep pool (measuring 8ft deep in summer, Mark Reidy pers. comm.) and was part of the battle site. Dredging works on the river have significantly altered the river and its immediate bank. Monasteranenagh Abbey (LI031-050004-) was in possession of the fishing rights and maintained an eel-weir to immediate NE of the battle site. The weir was destroyed, according to Quaine, during dredging works. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 28 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 low, 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_913 (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 Ballymacsradeen West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballymacsradeen West · Baile Mhic Shráidín Thiar

Area

1,389,920 m² (138.99 ha, 343.46 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Abbeyville, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Abbeyville electoral division: 411 people in 137 households; 92% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 1% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacsradeen East, Garrane, Tooreen, Tullovin

Placenames

Ballymacsradeen West 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.