Ballysallagh

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysallagh, from 1,100 m² to 242,225 m² (24.22 ha, 59.85 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballysallagh 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballysallagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballysallagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on top of hillock with good views all around. Sub-oval area (29.6m N-S; 22m E-W) defined by gentle scarped edge (Wth 5m; H 0.6m). Scarp truncated to S and W by derelict concrete farm buildings and generally levelled to N. Old concrete water tank constructed off-centre to NE of interior, otherwise interior generally level and in pasture. Farm sheds and silage pit in use c. 14m to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• LI023-090 Mound
  Description

  In generally level pasture at edge of N-facing slope overlooking flood plain of stream. Roughly circular, flat-topped mound (top: 10.4m N-S; 9.5m E-W; overall diam. 27m) defined by steep scarped edge (Wth 10.5m; H 4.9m) which is heavily poached by cattle around base. Erosion has formed a vertical face mid-scarp in places, creating a ledge/stepped scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.45m) above base of scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.75m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• LI023-091 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Levelled semi-circular area (12m N-S; 14m E-W) defined by traces of levelled bank reduced to scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.35m) ENE-S-WNW and truncated by farm access road WNW-W-ENE. Depicted on current edition OS 6-inch map as small semi-circular area (diam. c. 12m) defined by wider enclosing element and truncated by trackway across N-arc. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 18 November 2013

• LI023-093 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Oval area 36m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by remains of a wide levelled bank (Wth at top 5m; overall Wth 17.5m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.65m) NW-NE, reduced to very low scarp (Wth 12.5m; H 0.28m) NE-ESE and bank resumes again ESE-WNW. Entrance (Wth 4m) at WNW. Interior generally level and incorporated into rest of field as pasture. Another enclosure (LI023-318----) conjoins at SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 19 November 2013

• LI023-218 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On low-lying, improved wet pasture, cut by land drains and watercourses. A watercourse lies 20m to E, which also marks a townland boundary with Rathjordan and a parish boundary between Caherelly and Rathjordan. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark enclosing a low central mound by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 14701 & 02: AP 4/3660). The NE arc of the monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006 and on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013, however is not visible on the Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/08/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages 05/04/2006 and 26/08/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 14701 & 02. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 6 September 2020

• LI023-318 Enclosure
  Description

  In low-lying, gently undulating pasture, adjoining another enclosure (LI023-093----) at NE. Sub-rectangular area (30m NW-SE; 18m NE-SW) defined by traces of earthen bank (top Wth 2.5m; overall Wth 10.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.45m; L 14m) forming NW-side. Right-angled return of bank (L 20m) has a gentle curvature and forms SW-side. Slight gap (Wth 1.75m) in curvilinear bank at W. Monument is open (L 10m) to SE. Interior generally level and monument incorporated into field as pasture. Field is liable to floods from stream to E. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 19 November 2013

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballysallagh.

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballysallagh, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballysallagh.

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.

No address of the register names Ballysallagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballysallagh · An Baile Salach

Area

1,104,994 m² (110.5 ha, 273.05 acres)

Civil parish

Caherelly, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Caherelly, the unit of the census

Census 2022

388 people lived in 117 households in the Caherelly electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 45% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Cahercorney, Caherelly East, Knockcorragh, Rathjordan

Placenames

Ballysallagh 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.