Ballyriggin
Ballyriggin is a townland in the civil parish of Kilfinnane, barony of Coshlea, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Roigin.
- Area
- 132 ha
- 326 acres
- Land parcels
- 60
- registered freehold, median 11,954 m² (1.2 ha, 2.95 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 3
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyriggin, from 10 m² to 114,214 m² (11.42 ha, 28.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballyriggin 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
11 Jul 2026Conditional
the demolition of existing dwellinghouse in ruin and construction a new dwellinghouse and domestic garage, along with associated site works including new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment system and well
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660791
10 Oct 2023Conditional
the construction of single storey extensions to the side and the rear of an existing dwelling house, refurbishment and alterations of existing dwelling house, demolition of existing porch to the front of the existing dwelling house and all associated site works including new septic tank and percolation area
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23489
16 Nov 2017N/a
demolition of existing single storey rear extension and to construct a new two storey rear extension and a single storey rear extension and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171067
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 Ballyriggin.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyriggin.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyriggin.
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 Ballyriggin, 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 high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyriggin.
- 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 Ballyriggin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyriggin · Baile Roigin
- Area
- 1,319,585 m² (131.96 ha, 326.08 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilfinnane, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coshlea
- Electoral division
- Kilfinnane, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,147 people lived in 474 households in the Kilfinnane electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober, Garrynlease, Kilfinnane, Killeen, Moorestown, Thomastown
- Placenames
- Ballyriggin 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.