Ballynakill Beg
Townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile na Coille Beag
- Area
- 60 ha
- 148 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 8,479 m² (0.85 ha, 2.1 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill Beg, from 657 m² to 157,664 m² (15.77 ha, 38.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 14 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynakill Beg 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
3 Mar 2020Conditional
construction of 1 no. poultry house and soiled water storage tank, machinery/bedding store and carry out all associated ancillary site works. Retention permission is also sought for existing as constructed poultry house, soiled water tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20188
29 Aug 2017Conditional
the installation of a wastewater treatment system and puraflo modulated and decommissioning the existing septic tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17810
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
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballynakill Beg.
Recorded monuments
- LI036-089 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1924 OS 6-inch maps as a sub-circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI036-091 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (39.5m N-S; 35m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.1m; Wth 1.5m) with an external fosse (D 0.9m; Wth 1.9m). Entrance (Wth 3.9m) across scarped edge at ESE. Field boundary crosses fosse at NE and runs along top of scarp NE->ESE. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakill Beg.
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
- 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_491 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynakill Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynakill Beg · Baile na Coille Beag
- Area
- 599,865 m² (59.99 ha, 148.23 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Knockaderry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Knockaderry electoral division: 541 people in 176 households; 87% of households own their home; 31% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Arddrine, Killaready, Lissaniska West, Mahoonagh Beg, Mahoonagh More, Walshestown
- Placenames
- Ballynakill Beg 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.