Ballyroe East
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile an Róigh Thoir
- Area
- 67.6 ha
- 167 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 5,595 m² (0.56 ha, 1.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe East, from 156 m² to 179,244 m² (17.92 ha, 44.29 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 5 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyroe East 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
14 Mar 2026N/a
a domestic garage as constructed and ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660294
20 Nov 2025Conditional
demolition of existing rear conservatory and the construction of a rear extension and elevational changes to an existing dwelling house to include external wall insulation and new windows, the widening of the existing domestic entrance, upgrade works to existing agricultural entrance to include rebuilding splayed wall and piers, the decommissioning of existing septic tank system and the installation of a new replacement packaged wastewater unit and percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561204
12 Mar 2024Conditional
the construction of milking parlour building with collecting yard, flow channel, slatted tank, Crush, Dairy, Meal bin and all associated site works. Demolition of existing milking parlour and yards are also required
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460217
30 Nov 2023N/a
the construction of a part single, part two-storey dwelling house with integrated domestic garage, wastewater treatment system and percolation area, upgrade of existing entrance, driveway and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360886
25 May 2018Conditional
a slatted agricultural livestock unit, calf house and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 18521
27 Feb 2017Conditional
the construction of an easyfeed slatted cubicle house and ancillary works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17180
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 Ballyroe East.
Recorded monuments
- LI030-067 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on N-facing hill slope. Roughly oval area (19m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by scarped edge with steeper profile on N side due to natural gradient of terrain (at N: H 2.55m; Wth 7m; at S: H 0.65m; Wth 1m). Scarp worn down by cattle at SE. Interior dips down slightly towards centre and is covered by rough grazing. Field boundary runs along base of scarp NW->E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI030-068 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on N-facing hillside. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 25m) defined by scarped edge (H 1.7m; Wth 14m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 4m) NW->E, and counterscarp bank (ext. H 1.1m) NW->SE. Scarp is best preserved NW->NE, but elsewhere is gradual and somewhat indistinct in profile. Counterscarp has dumped material covering it at N. Interior gently dips down to shallow hollow just E-of-centre; SE quadrant covered by thicket of brambles and nettles as is enclosing element in this area. Terrain immediately E of enclosure is marshy. Avenue leading to farmyard curves to avoid enclosure on W side. Field boundary, shown abutting enclosure at NE on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyroe East.
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
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyroe East.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyroe East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyroe East · Baile an Róigh Thoir
- Area
- 675,939 m² (67.59 ha, 167.03 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballynahaha, Ballyroe West, Caherhenesy, Common, Lissamota
- Placenames
- Ballyroe East 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.