# Ballymurphy, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Crecora, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Mhurchú. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 482,587 m² (48.26 ha, 119.25 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 241,397 m² (24.14 ha, 59.65 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Crecora, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/crecora.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Crecora, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 461 people lived in 155 households in the Crecora electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30615 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120316 - Centre: latitude 52.582736, longitude -8.664496 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurphy, from 1,033 m² to 481,761 m² (48.18 ha, 119.05 acres); 10 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1674623: 481,761 m² (48.18 ha, 119.05 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674623.md - Parcel 1663643: 1,033 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663643.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballymurphy in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 5 Oct 2022, Limerick County Council 221076: Conditional. Retention. the installation of a new replacement packaged waste water unit with eco-flo filter to include the decommissioning of the existing septic tank with soak-pit and all other ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/221076/0 Applicants are not shown. ## 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 Ballymurphy. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-010: Designed landscape - tree-ring, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-010----. On a S-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views from N-E-S and which are restricted elsewhere. Depicted on the revised 1897 ed. OS 6-inch map as a substantial oval-shaped tree-planted enclosure. Old Crecora church (LI022-009001-) and graveyard (LI022-009002-) 235m to W and a fulacht fiadh (LI022-012----) lies 225m to E. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as an oval-shaped area (68m NNE-SSW; 52m WNW-ESE) defined by a very low scarp (Wth 1m; H 0.2m) which is indistinct from the surrounding field in places. The interior has a gentle rise from the edge of the scarp to the centre, which is flat. There is no obvious entrance. The site is enclosed around the base of the scarp by a timber picket fence. This appears to be a designed landscape feature in the form of a grove of trees and is associated with Ballymurphy House located 375m to N. Monument is visible as a large oval-shaped tree-planted feature on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020 - LI022-012: Fulacht fia, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-012----. In low-lying wet, level pasture, with limited views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly semicircular-shaped tree-planted area to the immediate W of a natural spring annotated ‘Rise’. An enclosure (LI022-013----) and a ringfort (LI022-015-----) lie 150m to SE and 240m to NE. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a horseshoe-shaped mound (13.6m NW-SE; 6.8m NE-SW; H 0.5m) of heat-shattered stone and charcoal rich soil, which is open to ESE. A linear drain runs N-S from the spring at the SE corner along the E side of the mound and continues to N. The same drain diverts in a loop at NE and extends around the monument on all sides and joins back to a point at SE, in the vicinity of the natural spring. The mound is well preserved as livestock cannot cross the drain to access the mound. Monument is visible as a semicircular-shaped tree-planted area on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 01/10/2015 and 06/02/2018. See attached sketch plan by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020 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) - Ballymurphy House, house, 1780–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21902203, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21902203. Detached L-plan four-bay two-storey house, built c. 1790, with adjoining T-plan stable block and two-storey extension to rear (north east) elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings having replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening with carved timber architrave surround and timber glazed double-leaf doors with overlight. Wrought-iron portico in front and approached by cut limestone steps. Multiple-bay two-storey stable block to rear with segmental-arched integral carriage-arch to west range, having pitched and hipped slate roofs with painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors with overlight above. Cut limestone square-profile piers to front of site having rubble limestone walls and replacement gates. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: the EPA radon map did not answer. - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_932, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_932.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/ballymurphy.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymurphy.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymurphy.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballymurphy 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) - Dooneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dooneen.md - Glebe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glebe-121067.md - Greenhills: https://everytownland.com/limerick/greenhills.md - Marlbrook: https://everytownland.com/limerick/marlbrook.md - Skehanagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/skehanagh-121826.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymurphy - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballymurphy