Ballyvockoge

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvockoge, from 136 m² to 166,153 m² (16.62 ha, 41.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 14 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 Ballyvockoge 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.

• 8 May 2026Conditional

  a domestic detached garage with car-port as constructed and a rear sunroom to the existing dwelling house as-constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660517

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21445

• 21 May 2018Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house (part single storey and part two storey) including provision of a waste water treatment system and percolation area, new front boundary wall, site entrance, bored well, garage, hard and soft landscaping and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18494

• 15 Sept 2017Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, bored well and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17850

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

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballinvirick Marsh 001427
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Gorteennamrock 001433

Recorded monuments

• LI020-030 Moated site
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, atop low rise. Site depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as hachured square area (L c. 20m) with L-shaped annex on NW and SE sides. Site has been levelled. However, now evident as sub-rectangular area (42m NNW->SSE; c. 20m WSW-ENE) defined by a low earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.65m) on NNW->SSE sides by irregular indistinct scarp on SSE->NNW side. Only evidence for L-shaped annex is low scarped edge (H 0.2m) running ESE for c. 20m from grounds of recently erected dwelling house, c. 40m to NE of sub-rectangular enclosure. Listed as a moated site by Barry (Barry 1981, 84; site no. 9). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-032 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on SW-facing slope overlooking marshy area. Roughly circular area (40m N-S; 42m E-W) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.6m). Bank best preserved along N arc; incorporated into field boundary system NE->SE. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to SW. Uprooted trees dumped along inner bank face. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-033 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone hillock, on E side of stream; immediately on W side of disused farmyard. Roughly oval area (c. 25m E-W; c. 35m N-S) enclosed by dry-stone wall (int. H 1.4m; ext. H 2.3m; Wth top 2m). Wall has vertical external face but sloping internal face. No opening in wall apparent. Enclosing element abutted by field boundaries to WSW, SE and NE; field boundary which formerly abutted to NNW has been removed. Interior is completely overgrown by trees and bushes, except for small area inside wall to N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-134 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Depicted as sub-rectangular enclosure ( ) on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Partially levelled; sub-rectangular area (40m NE-SW) enclosed by kink in dry-stone boundary wall (H 1.35m) W->NE and by modern wire fence NE->W. Gateway through fence at SW leads to galvanised hay shed against enclosing wall. Not for inclusion in the inventory as depiction on OS 6-inch map not definitely suggestive of archaeological site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-155 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope, in area of outcropping limestone. Circular area (28.3m N-S; 29.1m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m). Linear earthen banks abut bank at N (H 0.3m; extends for c. 20m) and SW (H 0.4m; extends for c. 24m). Entire site under grass except for some bushes atop bank at SE. Farm passageway skirts bank on E side. 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 Ballyvockoge.

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 Ballyvockoge, about 1 in 5 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. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyvockoge · Baile Mhacóg

Area

1,443,435 m² (144.34 ha, 356.68 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintredida, Ballinvirick, Ballyengland Upper, Ballynamona, Callow, Garranard, Gorteennamrock, Kilbehy, Tinnacullia

Placenames

Ballyvockoge 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.