Ballyteige Lower
Ballyteige Lower is a townland in the civil parish of Bruree, barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Uí Thaidhg Íochtarach.
- Area
- 136.7 ha
- 338 acres
- Land parcels
- 39
- registered freehold, median 19,480 m² (1.95 ha, 4.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
39 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyteige Lower, from 160 m² to 114,301 m² (11.43 ha, 28.24 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyteige Lower 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
10 Nov 2021Conditional
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211554
30 Sept 2021N/a
the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211366
1 Jun 2021Conditional
domestic garage attached to existing dwelling
Retention · Limerick County Council, 21766
17 Nov 2017Conditional
1) constructed detached domestic garage with loft storage and lean-to storage structure to rear, (2) constructed entrance and driveway, (3) elevational changes to existing dwelling including first floor gable windows on north and south elevations and (4) all ancillary site works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 171072
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 Ballyteige Lower.
Recorded monuments
- LI038-134 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on low-lying undulating terrain. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.2m) N->SSE; both are heavily masked by overgrowth. Bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.3m), best preserved NE->SE, forms angular corner at NW. Entrance (Wth 2m) at E. Field boundary skirts around enclosing bank S->W. Level interior is covered with trees and bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI038-140 Ringfort - rath
Description
In reclaimed pasture. The monument was levelled during recent reclamation work and the area of the site is now defined by a slight hollow in an otherwise level field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 5/1978).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyteige Lower.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyteige Lower, 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyteige Lower.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyteige Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyteige Lower · Baile Uí Thaidhg Íochtarach
- Area
- 1,367,045 m² (136.7 ha, 337.8 acres)
- Civil parish
- Bruree, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Rockhill, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 337 people lived in 124 households in the Rockhill electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 17% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyclogh Lower, Ballyclogh Upper, Ballyfookeen, Ballyteige Upper, Coolrus, Derraulin, Kilbreedy
- Placenames
- Ballyteige Lower 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.