Ballymartin

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartin, from 54 m² to 240,001 m² (24 ha, 59.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 18 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 Ballymartin 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.

• 19 Dec 2017Conditional

  a single storey extension to the rear of the existing School Masters House, renovations to the existing dwelling, new site entrance and driveway, new wall along boundary to public road, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works. The School Masters House is within the curtilage of a protected structure, Ballymartin School, L22(20). The application also seeks planning permission for the renovation of the protected structure, Ballymartin School, and for its use as a domestic garage for the adjoining dwelling

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 171206

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 Ballymartin.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-126 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying level pasture with poor views in all directions, 180m SE of stream that marks townland boundary with Kilcurly and 142m SE of townland boundary with Parkaree. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000, and described as a circular-shaped area (20m N-S; 19.5m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse (base Wth 2.2m; Overall Wth 7m; D 0.3m), the interior is level and clear of overgrowth. Upstanding monument visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken in 2000. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 August 2020

• LI022-129 Moated site
  Description

  In low-lying level wet pasture with poor views in all directions abutting a stream. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000, and described as a roughly rectangular-shaped area (30m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW ) defined by a scarp with external fosse (Base Wth 1.9m; Overall Wth 5.9m; int. D 0.3m; ext. D 0.2m) visible from SW-W-N-E-ESE. Interior is level and clear of overgrowth. The monument is visible as a rectangular shaped enclosure on the OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, Digital Globe orthoimages 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimages taken in 2017. Faint trace of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 7 August 2020

• LI022-166 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a slight NNW-facing slope 120m S of townland boundary with Kilderry. Not depicted on the 1840 0S 6-inch map or the 1897 25-inch OS map. Identified from an examination of aerial photographs of the region during work on the Curraleigh–Limerick gas pipeline in 1986 (BGE 1:10000 No. 42). No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. Faint cropmark shown on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 11 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballymartin.

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

Name

Ballymartin · Baile Mháirtín

Area

1,014,935 m² (101.49 ha, 250.8 acres)

Civil parish

Monasteranenagh, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Kilpeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilpeacon electoral division: 561 people in 192 households; 94% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boolavoord, Cahirduff, Kilcurly, Kilderry, Lacka, Parkaree, Powerfield, Rathmore North, Springlodge

Placenames

Ballymartin 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.