Ballypierce

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballypierce, from 283 m² to 171,033 m² (17.1 ha, 42.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 35 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 Ballypierce 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.

• 10 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, front boundary walls and entrance, mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460902

• 11 Nov 2021Conditional

  erection of an extension to side and rear of existing cottage and erection of new entrance gates and new secondary treatment system and polishing filter with existing connections to all public services

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211562

• 16 Feb 2021Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house with attic development, detached domestic garage, front boundary walls and entrance, mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21167

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI036-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture, on crest broad NNE-SSW running ridge. Circular area (25.7m N-S; 25m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 3.8m). Entrance (Wth 5.6m) at SE. Bank more substantial NW->SE than elsewhere. Interior slopes down to SE toward entrance, is 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 Ballypierce.

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 10 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_411 (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 Ballypierce with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballypierce · Baile Phiarais

Area

1,341,067 m² (134.11 ha, 331.38 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Garryduff, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Garryduff electoral division: 263 people in 107 households; 88% of households own their home; 15% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Dromin (Macturlogh), Garryduff, Glennagowan, Killaghteen, Rooskagh East

Placenames

Ballypierce 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.