Ballynagool
Ballynagool is a townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile na gCúl.
- Area
- 142.7 ha
- 353 acres
- Land parcels
- 32
- registered freehold, median 3,289 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagool, from 1,650 m² to 256,620 m² (25.66 ha, 63.41 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynagool 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
8 Jun 2024Conditional
the construction of a domestic garage, alterations to existing site entrance and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460571
12 Aug 2020Conditional
the construction of a dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter, vehicular access via existing private entrance/driveway together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20786
21 Jun 2019Conditional
construction of a dormer style dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19598
22 Nov 2017Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, septic tank and percolation area, bored well, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171081
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Curraghchase Woods SAC 000174
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Curraghchase Woods 000174
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballynagool.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynagool.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynagool, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballynagool.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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 Ballynagool with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynagool · Baile na gCúl
- Area
- 1,426,793 m² (142.68 ha, 352.57 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Croagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 833 people lived in 248 households in the Croagh electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballincurra, Ballinvira, Cloonoul, Currahchase, Kilgrogan, Kyleavarraga South, Lisnamuck
- Placenames
- Ballynagool 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.