Ballynakill

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill, from 252 m² to 307,957 m² (30.8 ha, 76.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 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 Ballynakill 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.

• 4 Dec 2025N/a

  the construction of a single-storey Childcare facility building, a waste-water treatment system, a new site entrance and gate, site car parking, boundary treatments including a pedestrian gate between the site and the adjacent National School and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561265

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  as constructed extensions and associated works to the existing dwelling house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 25307

• 4 Apr 2024Conditional

  the change of house design under permitted governing permission no. 21/1605 together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460290

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  extension of permission for planning ref. 18/727: conversion of garage, extension to existing house, construction of new detached shed and upgrading of existing septic tank system to packaged treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 237020

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  5 bay slatted shed, feeding passage, and covered handling facilities on to existing hay storage shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23259

• 8 Sept 2022Conditional

  a 2 storey dwellinghouse, site entrance, tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area along with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22973

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of dwelling house, detached garage, new entrance and installation of on-site treatment plant and percolation area together with associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211605

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  construction of a milking parlour building with slatted tank, drafting/collecting yard, flow channel, storage, plant and office and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21724

• 4 Aug 2020Conditional

  construction of a domestic extension to our existing dwelling house consisting of two bedrooms, family room, snooker room, wet room, utility room. Relocate the existing septic tank and percolation area to facilitate the said extension and all associated services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20753

• 17 Jul 2018Conditional

  conversion of garage, extension to existing house, construction of new detached shed and upgrading of existing septic tank system to packaged treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works - extended under 23/7020 until 01/10/2024

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18727

• 23 Jun 2017Conditional

  for an entrance, dwelling house, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter, private well domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17588

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 Ballynakill.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-010 Designed landscape feature
  Description

  Immediately S of Ballynakill House. Though depiction of site on OS 6-inch map suggests square enclosure feature is croquet lawn for adjacent country house. Now used as paddock for horses. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI030-011001 Church
  Description

  In centre of graveyard (LI030-011001), partially ivy-clad ruin of church, roofless but walls standing to full height, consisting of nave (14.1m E-W; 7.05m N-S) and chancel (6.2m E-W; 5.7m N-S); side walls of nave butt against E end wall of nave indicating chancel later addition. Entered through doorway near W end of S wall of nave; W side of door surround missing (see ill. OSL vol. 2, 129), E side composed of plain limestone jambs, the topmost one projecting to support large lintel (recently cracked) covering door; front face of lintel decorated with shallow rectangular projection (Wth 1.3m; H 0.25m; D 0.05m). Nave lit by much-damaged window near E end of S wall; single segmental-headed light. Opposite, high on N wall, is blocked ope. Wall between nave and chancel and chancel arch much rebuilt, probably when chancel converted to 'burial-place' for Pigott family in 1810 (Westropp 1904-5, 411); defaced limestone memorial on S wall of chancel erected in 1718 by John Pigot in memory of his family (Fitzgerald & McGregor 1826, 383). Central E window in chancel also heavily rebuilt but inside edge of embrasure, with semi-circular arch, is original. Second chancel window in S wall; this has single semi-circular arched light chamfered on outside edge. Interior of nave covered by burials, the earliest headstone here dating to mid-19th century. Remains of parish church of Kilfinny; in repair in 1615 (Westropp ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI030-011002 Graveyard
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on N verge of marshy area; approached by trackway across field from road to N. Square area (L c. 32m) enclosed by mortared limestone wall; stiled entrance in N wall. Maintained and in occasional use. Interior rises towards centre where stands ruin of Kilfinny church (LI030-011001-). Older headstones cluster to S of church, oldest noted dated 1797; chest tomb immediately S of church dated 1745; also some low uninscribed gravemarkers. Holy well (LI030-011001-) situated 6m outside enclosing wall to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI030-011003 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on N verge of marshy area, 6m outside W boundary wall of Kilfinny graveyard (LI030-011002-). Well consists of sunken stone-lined area (1m N-S; 1.4m E-W; D 0.8m), dry at time of visit. Enclosing this is recent stone wall with gate on S side giving access to three concrete steps down to well area. This stands atop raised roughly-circular platform (6m E-W; 5.5m N-S; H 0.45m) kerbed by remains of collapsed stone wall. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 205) 'rounds are still made by a few, especially on 9th September.' The following folklore was recorded from Kilfinny National School about St. Kieran's Well; 'There is only one holy well in our district namely St Cieran's in the townland of Ballinakill. It is visited by people every year of the 9th Sept, the saints feast day. People go nine times around the Church year and nine times around the well which is just outside the church wall and say the Rosary three times while doing the rounds in the church yard and once going round the well. St Ciearan's footprint is said to be on one of the stone steps leading to the well. The well is specially recommended for cures of sore eyes. Anyone who has sore eyes bathes them with the water and takes a drink of it as well. Little pictures or medals are usually left behind at the well as souvenirs. There is a whitethorn bush growing beside it' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0498, Page 399; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922002/4917142/4950953?ChapterID=4922002). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00277 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24552; F025.21.00275 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/17023 and F025.21.00276 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/24551. Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 1 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI030-148 Excavation - miscellaneous
  Description

  Topsoil-stripping on Bord Gáis Éireann's Pipeline to the West uncovered a small site in Ballynakill townland, Co. Limerick. This was excavated by Brian Halpin (02E0525) who found 'pits and two small linear features covered by a thin spread of charcoal-rich material. The site measured 10.8m east-west by 7.8m and lay in an area of yellow/brown boulder-clay subsoil. The main foci were two linear features. They were shallow ditches with gently sloping walls and flat bases. The first measured 5.8m east-west and had a maximum depth of 0.3m. The second was roughly the same shape but smaller, measuring 3.3m east-west with a maximum depth of 0.45m. This feature cut the first at a 30? angle. A series of pits was situated up to 4.4m north and north-west of the linear features. Most were shallow, the largest having a diameter of 0.5m. They may have been storage pits. The fill of the first was a dark silty clay with moderate amounts of charcoal flecking. It was undisturbed at its base and was truncated by a later feature that contained a mid-brown silty sand fill that generally contained much less charcoal and was possibly redeposited subsoil. The two linear features were deliberately cut into the subsoil, although their purpose remains unclear. The first cut had probably exhausted its function, and a second feature had been haphazardly cut into it. Other than a possible chert flake, no datable evidence or finds were recovered from this site.' The above description is posted on the web at the following internet address: http://www.excavations.ie/ (accessed 22 August 2012). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 22 August 2012

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1800, having two-bay single-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with red brick chimneystack. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed openings with timber battened door. Four-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched corrugated-iron roofs with render copings. Painted rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings having timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile rendered walls to west with double-leaf cast-iron gates. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east having single-leaf cast-iron gate. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with render plinth course and copings.

• Ballynakill House, country house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached multiple-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1790. Comprising L-plan main block with two-bay two-storey entrance block to front (south) elevation, single-bay two-storey extension to south elevation, bow window to east gable, single-bay two-storey addition to west elevation and two-bay two-storey block to south-west. Pitched slate roofs with render copings and rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof to entrance block and bow window. Roughcast rendered walls having render plinth course. Square-headed openings with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Some having replacement uPVC windows. Square-headed openings to main block, west elevation with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to entrance block having render Doric style pilasters supporting render entablature and pediment over timber panelled door. Limestone threshold to entrance. Square-headed opening to north elevation with render surround and consoles supporting entablature over double-leaf glazed doors with three-pane overlight. Concrete step to entrance. Five-bay single-storey outbuilding to south having pitched slate roof and red brick chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls. Camber-headed openings with red brick voussoirs, concrete sills and replacement two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed openings with red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Elliptical-headed openings having rend brick voussoirs and double-leaf timber battened doors. Five-bay single-storey L-plan outbuilding to south-west with pitched slate roofs. Rubble limestone walls. Pointed arch window opening with red brick surround. Square-headed openings having red brick surrounds and metal doors. Segmental-headed opening with red brick surround and double-leaf timber doors. Courtyard to west having gable-fronted outbuilding to west. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls to north elevation having red brick quoins and stringcourse. Rubble limestone walls to west elevation. Square-headed door opening to north with red brick block-and-start surround. Four-bay two-storey outbuilding to north-east having gable-fronted end-bay. Pitched slate roof with rooflights. Rubble limestone walls. Square-headed window openings having red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door opening with red brick block-and-start surround. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with red brick block-and-start surround. Single-bay single-storey gable-fronted outbuilding to north. Pitched slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls having red brick quoins and stringcourse. Pointed arch window opening. Elliptical-headed carriage arch with red brick block-and-start surround. Nine-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west. Single-pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors.

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_821 (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 Ballynakill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballynakill · Baile na Cille

Area

1,892,907 m² (189.29 ha, 467.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfinny, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Kilfinny, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kilfinny electoral division: 314 people in 103 households; 90% of households own their home; 34% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymackeamore, Commons, Dunnaman, Kilfinny, Shanaclogh

Placenames

Ballynakill 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.