Ballymurphy

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymurphy, from 1,033 m² to 481,761 m² (48.18 ha, 119.05 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Ballymurphy 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.

• 5 Oct 2022Conditional

  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

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221076

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 Ballymurphy.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-010 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• Ballymurphy House, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_932 (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 Ballymurphy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballymurphy · Baile Uí Mhurchú

Area

482,587 m² (48.26 ha, 119.25 acres)

Civil parish

Crecora, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Crecora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Crecora electoral division: 461 people in 155 households; 89% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dooneen, Glebe, Greenhills, Marlbrook, Skehanagh

Placenames

Ballymurphy 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.