Ballynort
Ballynort is a townland in the civil parish of Askeaton, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Ó nDúrtaigh.
- Area
- 305.5 ha
- 755 acres
- Land parcels
- 107
- registered freehold, median 8,237 m² (0.82 ha, 2.04 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 13
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
107 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynort, from 62 m² to 191,932 m² (19.19 ha, 47.43 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballynort 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
2 Mar 2026Refused
importing subsoil, stones and topsoil from the construction industry to recontour and reclaim farmland. A Certificate of Registration (COR) will be applied to Limerick City & County Council for this activity, and a Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the planning application
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660223
21 Nov 2025Conditional
the extension rear extension and front porch to the existing dwelling and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25379
4 Jul 2025N/a
importing subsoil, stones and topsoil from the construction industry to recontour and reclaim farmland. A Certificate of Registration (COR) will be applied to Limerick City & County Council for this activity
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560663
28 Jan 2022Conditional
construction of a dwelling, entrance, drive, sewage treatment unit and percolation area together with associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2289
21 Jan 2022Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling, garage, the installation of a waste water treatment system, new vehicle entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2259
1 Nov 2021Conditional
conversion of attic space to living accommodation
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211516
18 Dec 2020Conditional
an agricultural entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201390
7 Jul 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling, garage, entrance, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20590
19 Dec 2018Conditional
a change of site boundaries, change of house design, change of house location and relocate onsite waste water treatment and disposal system within the site boundaries from that previously granted under planning ref. 18/799
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181253
12 Oct 2018Conditional
a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18996
9 Aug 2018Conditional
construction of a new dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, site boundary, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18799
12 Feb 2018N/a
the construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 18114
15 Aug 2017N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 17773
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
Recorded monuments
- LI011-043 Mill - unclassified
Description
In rough pasture, on E side of fast-flowing stream through limestone area. Depicted on 1st ed. 1841 OS 6-inch map as "mill in ruins". No visible surface trace evident; area heavily masked by vegetation cover. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-046 Ringfort - rath
Description
In scrub, atop limestone ridge. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m), could not locate in dense overgrowth of briars and bushes which covers ridge. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-051 Ringfort - cashel
Description
In pasture, atop limestone crag. Circular area (33m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by stone-faced earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.7m), best preserved NNW->ESE but much eroded by cattle W->NNW. Though now surviving only in places the stone facing consists of large limestone slabs, laid edge to edge along circumference of enclosure. Entrance (Wth 2.3m) at SE flanked by two stones at either side. Interior, littered with loose stone and with some limestone outcroping, dips down towards centre. Linear earth-and-stone field bank (H 0.6m; Wth c. 4.5m) abuts enclosure at E and extends downslope to E for c. 45m. Haybarn and cattle crush recently erected immediately outside enclosure at WNW. 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 Ballynort.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballynort, 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_591 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballynort with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballynort · Baile Ó nDúrtaigh
- Area
- 3,055,036 m² (305.5 ha, 754.92 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
- Ballyaglish, Ballyengland Lower, Ballyhomin, Ballyvaddock, Drominoona, Galway, Moig North, Moig South, Mornane
- Placenames
- Ballynort 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.