Ballyshane

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshane, from 251 m² to 439,384 m² (43.94 ha, 108.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballyshane 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.

• 16 May 2025Refused

  a dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, and all associated site works including wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560455

• 7 Sept 2023Conditional

  the construction of a single storey gymnasium building and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23440

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a spectator stand and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23300

• 22 May 2023Conditional

  the installation of a concrete septic tank & percolation area and all associated site works to serve the dwelling which is currently under construction(Planning reference no. 21/1592)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23263

• 20 Apr 2023Conditional

  (a) single storey extension to eastern side of existing cottage, (b) septic tank & percolation area as constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23217

• 5 May 2022Conditional

  the construction of a cattle shed with slatted tank, straw bedded shed with slatted tank, extension to straw bedded shed and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22499

• 22 Apr 2022Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, provision of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works all

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22452

• 17 Nov 2021Conditional

  construction of an entrance, a single storey dwelling house and detached garage, provision of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211592

• 28 Jun 2021Conditional

  the demolition of an existing derelict dwelling house and construction of a two storey dwelling house including a new waste water treatment system and percolation area, relocation of existing vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21905

• 23 Feb 2021Conditional

  the construction of an all-weather playing pitch with flood lighting, fencing and safety netting, hurling wall and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21199

• 5 Jan 2018Conditional

  the construction of dwelling, garage, stables, site entrance, install effluent treatment system including all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 187

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 Ballyshane.

Recorded monuments

• LI057-079 Enclosure
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 36m) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery. See attached image from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 15 April 2020

Architectural heritage

• Presbytery/parochial/curate's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey presytery, built c. 1880. Comprising shallow pedimented breakfront with porch to front (west) elevation, bay window to north elevation and two-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (east) elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves with timber brackets. Rendered walls having render stringcourse, plinth course and surround with cross motif to pediment. Fluted Doric style pilasters to porch supporting entablature and parapet. Camber-headed openings having render surrounds, limestone sills and replacement uPVC windows. Paired round-headed openings to porch with shared limestone sill, render hoodmoulding, surrounds and replacement uPVC windows. Round-headed opening having render hoodmoulding, flanking fluted pilasters and glazed overlight over replacement uPVC door with limestone threshold. Three-bay two-storey outbuilding to east having pitched slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed opening to first floor with fixed windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed carriage arch with double-leaf timber battened doors. Rubble stone boundary walls to site.

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 Ballyshane, about 1 in 20 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyshane · Baile Sheáin

Area

1,977,695 m² (197.77 ha, 488.7 acres)

Civil parish

Darragh, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Darragh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

375 people lived in 130 households in the Darragh electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynacourty, Ruppulagh, Spittle, Tulla

Placenames

Ballyshane 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.