Ballynahaha

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynahaha, from 174 m² to 171,737 m² (17.17 ha, 42.44 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 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 Ballynahaha 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballynahaha in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballynahaha.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in terrace on N-facing slope. Circular area (26m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 7m) S->ENE, but enclosing element levelled ENE->S. Interior, slightly raised above level of surrounding terrain, is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1924 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m), has been levelled. Very slightly rise, roughly circular in area, is discernible at location of site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-072 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Roughly circular area (20m SW-NE) defined by exceptionally wide scarped edge (ext. H 2.3m; Wth 16m). Wall of otherwise demolished house stands on base of scarp N->NE; field drain truncates base of scarp NE->SE. Running W from SW corner of scarp is bank of earth (Wth 25m; H 1.1m) which may be material dumped here when nearby enclosure (LI030-071---) levelled c. 1975. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-073 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In tillage, atop low hill. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth. As far as could be ascertained site is enclosed by a high earthen bank with an external fosse. A collapsed dry-stone field boundary bounds site on E side and a public road bounds it on S side. Field boundary clearance debris has been dumped along fringe of enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on steep N-facing hill-slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular enclosure (c. 25m N-S; c. 35m E-W) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-075 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. According to local information monument levelled recently by mechanical digger. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-076 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on N-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S) defined by scarped edge (H 1.3m: Wth 9.5m) NW->SW but which is truncated SW->NW by N-S field boundary (distance from field boundary to scarped edge at E: 23.1m). The 1924 OS 6-inch map shows field boundary abutting enclosure at S and a farmyard immediately NE of enclosure; both of these are now removed. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-077 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at N edge of terrace on N-facing slope; recently built bungalow immediately W of enclosure. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 40m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m), with external fosse (Wth 0.75m; D 0.2m) SE->SW and slight counterscarp bank at SE. Field boundary abuts bank at SE. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Ballynahaha House, gates/railings/walls, 1860–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding sandstone arch, dated 1863, comprising dressed sandstone walls with roughly dressed cappings and plaque inscribed: "AD/1863". Segmental-headed arch with roughly dressed sandstone voussoirs and carved impost course. Flanking round-headed niches to arch. Set back from the road.

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 high, moderately high, moderately low, 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 Ballynahaha.

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

Name

Ballynahaha · Baile na hÁithe

Area

1,889,965 m² (189 ha, 467.02 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyknockane, Ballyroe East, Common, Kilmacow, Lissamota

Placenames

Ballynahaha 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.