Ballyroe West

2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyroe West, from 824 m² to 377,659 m² (37.77 ha, 93.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 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 Ballyroe West 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.

• 15 Aug 2022Conditional

  a front and side extension to an existing cottage and all associated site works. This is a Protected Structure

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22898

• 13 Jul 2022N/a

  a front and side extension to an existing cottage and all associated site works. The proposed development consists of work to a Protected Structure

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22774

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

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyroe West.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-141 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a NW-facing slope. Enclosure, visible as circular cropmark on aerial photograph (LAS), now evident as circular area defined SW-NE by bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.6m) with external fosse (Wth 4m; D 0.8m); otherwise enclosing element has been levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI038-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on NNW-facing hill slope. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) clipped by field boundary at NE on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field. However, it is now evident as a circular area (29.8m N-S; 29.7m E-W) defined by scarped edge NW->NNE and E->S. Scarp (H 0.9m; Wth 10m) is best preserved at NW. Curved section of earth-and-stone field boundary overlies enclosing element NNE->E. 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 Ballyroe West.

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 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 West.

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 Ballyroe West with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyroe West · Baile an Róigh Thiar

Area

427,796 m² (42.78 ha, 105.71 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

Ballyroe East, Caherhenesy, Common

Placenames

Ballyroe West 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.