# Ballyshoneen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Oola, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Sheoinín.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 94,179 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in it, median 94,178 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 0 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Oola, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/oola.md
- Barony: Coonagh
- Electoral division: Grean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,548 people lived in 533 households in the Grean electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32413
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120415
- Centre: latitude 52.548886, longitude -8.322101 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

1 registered freehold parcel lies mostly in Ballyshoneen, from 94,178 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres) to 94,178 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1589363: 94,178 m² (9.42 ha, 23.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589363.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyshoneen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

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

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

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

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI024-052: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-052----. In deciduous woodland, 20m to E of a stream, which marks the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. Annotated ‘Rathaniska’ and depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (O'Dwyer 1959, 98). Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 24m) enclosed by a bank (int. H 0.45-0.55m; ext. H 1.35-1.4m; Wth 5.5-5.75m) from WSW-N-E-S-SSE and reduced to scarp (H 0.95m) elsewhere with possible external fosse (Wth 4.85m; D 0.5m) visible from WNW-NW only. The bank is interrupted by a pond (dims. c. 6m E-W; c. 5m N-S) from SSE-S-SSW. AThe interior is generally level and is planted with deciduous trees. Linear mounds (Wth 0.8m; H 0.1m) which cross the interior (long-axis NNW-SSE) seem to be related to tree planting. Monument is visible as a tree-planted area on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 15 July 2020
- LI024-186: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-186----. In pasture 100m E of the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. Ring-barrow (LI024-229----) located 50m to E and ring-barrow (LI024-187----) 180m to S. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 43(01); AP 4/3673) as a circular crop mark. Outline of monument visible as a circular shaped area defined by a ditch on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 43(01). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 July 2020
- LI024-187: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-187----. In pasture 75m N of the townland boundary with Plaukarauka. Ring-barrows (LI024-186/229----) located 180m to N. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 42; AP 4/3673) as a circular cropmark. Outline of monument visible as a circular -shaped area (approx. diam. 12.5m) defined by a ditch on OSi orthophotos 2005-2012. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 18/11/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 42. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 27 July 2020
- LI024-229: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-229----. In pasture 130m SE of the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh and 13m W of the townland boundary with Knockballyfookeen. Enclosure lies 54m to E of a ring-barrow (LI024-186----). The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps, it is faintly visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 43.2; AP 4/3673) as a U-shaped sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m N-S; 30m E-W). The site is visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. The enclosure appears to respect the line of the townland boundary on its E side and a relic field boundary to the S suggesting a post-medieval date. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 4302 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020
- LI024-236: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-236----. In flat pasture 26m E of the townland boundary with Ballynaclogh. The ring-barrow is 100m SW of a ringfort (LI024-252----) and 100m NNW of a ring-barrow (LI024-186----). The monument is not depicted on historic OSi maps, nor is it visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 nor on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 44; AP 4/3672) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 7m). The ring-barrow is not visible on the Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018, but is visible on an earlier Google Earth image taken 25/03/2017). See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 44 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 17 September 2020

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

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

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ballyshoneen, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshoneen.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballyshoneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyhurst: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyhurst.md
- Ballynaclogh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynaclogh.md
- Knockballyfookeen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockballyfookeen.md
- Plaukarauka: https://everytownland.com/limerick/plaukarauka.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyshoneen
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyshoneen