Ballynakill More

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynakill More, from 185 m² to 375,587 m² (37.56 ha, 92.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 20 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 More 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.

• 17 Jun 2026Conditional

  (A) a dwelling house as constructed and (B) Planning Permission to construct a garage and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660678

• 15 Dec 2020Conditional

  construction of a poultry house, soiled water storage tank and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201350

• 26 Aug 2020Conditional

  extension of duration for 15/385

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 207025

• 19 Jul 2017Conditional

  the erection of a calf house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17690

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 More.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-099 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by scarped edge H 1.6m; Wth 1.1m) with an external fosse (D 1.5m; Wth 1.8m). Fosse and scarp covered by dump of earth and stones SW->SE which form bank (ext. H 2.4m); this material probably derived from levelled field boundary which formerly abutted enclosure at N. Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse at SSW. Interior level, dry and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI037-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level marshy terrain. Circular area (diam. 23m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.4m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.2m). Interior level and overgrown with scrub and trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 325/ 28, 29 on 05/10/2002.

• LI037-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of a watercourse, 60m NW of townland boundary with Ballydoorty. Ringforts (LI037-070/099----) lie 260m to the SE and 430m to the W, respectively. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at N and S by post-1700 field boundaries running N-S. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a partially levelled monument consisting of an irregular-shaped area (dims. c. 18m NW-SE) defined by a scarp and delimited at SE by a drainage channel running NE-SW. On this map a 'Draw Well' is depicted immediately to W of earthwork. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey recorded this monument as one of ‘three forts’ in the townland (OSNB Abbeyfeale to Bruree, 1275). Monument visible as a D-shaped cropmark delimited at E by a field boundary on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 24/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 20 April 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynakill More.

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, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_517 (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 More with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballynakill More · Baile na Coille Mór

Area

1,684,853 m² (168.49 ha, 416.34 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Mahoonagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Mahoonagh electoral division: 550 people in 188 households; 87% of households own their home; 24% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballydoorty, Ballynoe, Curragh, Lissaniska East, Mahoonagh Beg, Rathfreedy, Walshestown

Placenames

Ballynakill More 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.