Ballynash

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynash, from 3,796 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres) to 311,004 m² (31.1 ha, 76.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 4 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballynash 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 Ballynash 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

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

• LI010-052 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope. No visible surface trace of castle of the Nashes listed in the Desmond Roll of 1582 (Westropp 1906-7, 205). Westropp (1906-7, 205) recorded the following details about Ballynash; 'The Nash family is probably correct in deriving its descent from W. de Naas (1199), the grantee of Carnkital C[astle]. It was settled near Askeaton from at least 1346. In 1582, Ric. Nashe held Ballynashigg C[astle]. (Des. R., 23). 1590 C[astle]. Nash is marked (Hardiman 2). 1620 M. Berkeley settled it on his wife (Inq. Chan., 72b; and Deed P.R.O.I). 1655 Held by Lord Brohill and Mrs. Crofton (C.S., p. 65). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-133 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  First edition of OS six-inch map shows a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) planted with trees at this location. This area has now been reclaimed and there is no evident trace of the enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 2 August 2012

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballynash, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_508 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballynash with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballynash · Baile an Naisigh

Area

360,205 m² (36.02 ha, 89.01 acres)

Civil parish

Askeaton, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Iveruss, the unit of the census

Census 2022

350 people lived in 125 households in the Iveruss electoral division. 95% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 14% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Courtbrown, Moig South

Placenames

Ballynash 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.