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

Townland in the civil parish of Rathronan, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Bhuacháin.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,859,504 m² (185.95 ha, 459.49 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,376 m² (0.44 ha, 1.08 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 4 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathronan, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/rathronan.md
- Barony: Shanid
- Electoral division: Ardagh, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31659
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120436
- Centre: latitude 52.51352, longitude -9.076234 (WGS 84)

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

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvoghan, from 122 m² to 368,835 m² (36.88 ha, 91.14 acres); 32 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1664484: 368,835 m² (36.88 ha, 91.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664484.md
- Parcel 1618617: 269,140 m² (26.91 ha, 66.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1618617.md
- Parcel 1664131: 169,134 m² (16.91 ha, 41.79 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664131.md
- Parcel 1642278: 132,717 m² (13.27 ha, 32.8 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642278.md
- Parcel 1607601: 130,871 m² (13.09 ha, 32.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607601.md
- Parcel 1589883: 103,904 m² (10.39 ha, 25.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589883.md
- Parcel 1639935: 89,423 m² (8.94 ha, 22.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639935.md
- Parcel 2384302: 66,899 m² (6.69 ha, 16.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384302.md
- Parcel 2384313: 58,651 m² (5.87 ha, 14.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2384313.md
- Parcel 1648452: 53,933 m² (5.39 ha, 13.33 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1648452.md
- Parcel 1598745: 53,590 m² (5.36 ha, 13.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598745.md
- Parcel 3907822: 52,955 m² (5.3 ha, 13.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907822.md
- Parcel 1607541: 46,559 m² (4.66 ha, 11.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607541.md
- Parcel 1642174: 32,538 m² (3.25 ha, 8.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1642174.md
- Parcel 1627157: 28,049 m² (2.8 ha, 6.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627157.md
- Parcel 3907813: 22,577 m² (2.26 ha, 5.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907813.md
- Parcel 1651036: 21,288 m² (2.13 ha, 5.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1651036.md
- Parcel 1606822: 16,567 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606822.md
- Parcel 1631370: 16,554 m² (1.66 ha, 4.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631370.md
- Parcel 1653387: 15,191 m² (1.52 ha, 3.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653387.md
- Parcel 1665102: 7,656 m² (0.77 ha, 1.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665102.md
- Parcel 1673549: 7,166 m² (0.72 ha, 1.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673549.md
- Parcel 1658313: 7,087 m² (0.71 ha, 1.75 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1658313.md
- Parcel 3907859: 5,299 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907859.md
- Parcel 1647541: 5,078 m² (0.51 ha, 1.25 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647541.md
- Parcel 1597840: 4,824 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1597840.md
- Parcel 1650575: 4,632 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650575.md
- Parcel 1608290: 4,481 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608290.md
- Parcel 3899083: 4,272 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3899083.md
- Parcel 1601286: 3,891 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601286.md
- Parcel 1601243: 3,830 m² (0.38 ha, 0.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601243.md
- Parcel 2478869: 3,629 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478869.md
- Parcel 5895275: 3,482 m² (0.35 ha, 0.86 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5895275.md
- Parcel 1603332: 3,335 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603332.md
- Parcel 5167967: 2,980 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5167967.md
- Parcel 1663914: 2,814 m² (0.28 ha, 0.7 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663914.md
- Parcel 1659462: 2,706 m² (0.27 ha, 0.67 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659462.md
- Parcel 1656472: 2,641 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656472.md
- Parcel 1612866: 2,340 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612866.md
- Parcel 5466775: 2,335 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5466775.md
- Parcel 1604374: 2,289 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604374.md
- Parcel 1606025: 2,147 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606025.md
- Parcel 1588642: 2,097 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588642.md
- Parcel 1608506: 2,035 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608506.md
- Parcel 1637200: 2,010 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637200.md
- Parcel 1656151: 1,987 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656151.md
- Parcel 2428119: 1,984 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2428119.md
- Parcel 1611576: 1,982 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611576.md
- Parcel 1601311: 1,640 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601311.md
- Parcel 1665316: 1,537 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665316.md
- Parcel 1605583: 1,021 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605583.md
- Parcel 1599900: 710 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599900.md
- Parcel 2478868: 669 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2478868.md
- Parcel 3907811: 614 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3907811.md
- Parcel 5466779: 124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5466779.md
- Parcel 1609542: 122 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1609542.md

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

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvoghan 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)

4 applications, newest first.

- 13 Mar 2026, Limerick County Council 2660293: Conditional. Permission. the change of use from a derelict residential dwelling to use as ‘short term letting’. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660293/0
- 22 Aug 2025, Limerick County Council 2560839: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house , garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560839/0
- 27 Jan 2025, Limerick County Council 2560045: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling house , garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560045/0
- 16 Feb 2022, Limerick County Council 22170: Conditional. Permission, 2 homes. the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/22170/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA, site code 004161, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/spa/004161

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

- LI028-008: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-008----. In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope with steep drop to NE into river valley. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by scarped edge (H 3m; Wth 6.1m) with external fosse (Wth 1.8m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 2.5m; ext. H 1m). Enclosing element obscured by overgrowth N->SE. Fosse evident all round but becomes very shallow and marshy W->N. Field drain enters fosse at SE. Interior covered by dense overgrowth, and slopes sharply down to ENE. Field boundaries abut enclosure at SE, NNW, N (partially removed) and NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-009: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-009----. In rough grazing, on an E-facing slope. The monument, which is depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a circular mound (diam. c. 10m), has been levelled. The immediate area of the site is noticeably marshy and covered with rushes but no trace of the mound is evident. According to local information the mound was levelled many years ago, and it was known as 'Lisheen'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-012: Castle - tower house, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-012----. Ballyvoughan Castle described in 1840 as this castle 'measure on the inside twenty four feet [7.3m] by nineteen feet six inches [6m] and its walls are twenty five [7.6m] in height and five feet eight inches [1.7m] in thickness, but they were originally much higher. The arch over the ground floor of this Castle still remains' (O'Flanagan 1929, 26). Westropp (1906-7, 246) recorded the following details about Ballyvoghan (Baile Uí Bhuacháin) Castle; '1582 Edm. f. Morrice Hubert, of Balivochan, pardoned (Fi. 3842). Ger. Hurbert rebelled with Desmond (Inq. Exch, 54 Peyton, 113b). 1611 Held by Ol[iver]. Stephenson, who enfeoffed Jas. Walsh and others intrust (Inq. Chan, 55, ix, 62). 1633 T. Stephenson, of Ballywoghan, died (Funeral Ent, v, p. 38). 1655 Late estate of Ric. Stephenson (C.S, p. 84). 1736 Rob. Morgan, of Callow, leased land to Ric. Stephenson, of Ballywogan (Reg. Dub.). Fabric - A tower 24 feet [7.3m] by 19½ feet [6m], walls 5 feet 8 inches [1.7m] thick, with an under-vault, and 25 feet [7.6m] high. It was locally Baile ui Buadachan in 1840 (O.S.L, 9, p. 74), suggesting the ancient name Buadhachan occurring among the Eoghanachts. The older form, however, suggests the "Vaughan" family. Morrish Moghan or Vaughan was of Kilbradran, 1619 (Inq. Chan, ix, 67). A family named Boohen recently lived in Kilmeedy'. Ballyvoghan Castle described by Salter (2004, 66) as follows; 'A wing 3.8m wide projecting 2.4m at the east end of the south wall of this tower measuring 11.1m by 11.3m contains at second storey a latrine reached off the much damaged straight flights of stairs rising in the south and east walls. Nothing now survives above the vault over the second storey, which has a mural room in the SW corner, originally with a murder-hole covering the entrance (now blocked) below it'. Classified by Donnelly (1999, 26, 37) as a Type 2 tower house which consists of a castle with turret or side-tower. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2020
- LI028-014: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-014----. In pasture, on SE-facing slope immediately below top of ridge. Circular area (25.3m N-S; 25.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.1m) SSW->ENE and defined by scarped edge (H 1.3m; Wth 3.4m) ENE->SSW, with external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.65m) WSW->ENE. At ESE, scarp dips to H 0.55m for distance of 6m. Indistinct counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.35m) WSW->NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to ESE. Field boundary abuts outer edge of fosse at N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-154: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI028-154----. In pasture, on S-facing slope and immediately W of road. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) truncated at E by roadway on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. However, arc of scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 6m; C c. 27m) survives SSE->W. Otherwise site level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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 Ballyvoghan.

## 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 Ballyvoghan, about 1 in 20 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 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 Ballyvoghan.
- 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/ballyvoghan.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvoghan.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvoghan.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Ballyvoghan 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)

- Ballykealy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballykealy.md
- Ballymakeery: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballymakeery.md
- Cahermoyle: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cahermoyle.md
- Glendiheen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glendiheen.md
- Glenville: https://everytownland.com/limerick/glenville.md
- Kerrikyle: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kerrikyle.md
- Knockbweeheen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockbweeheen.md
- Lisgordan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/lisgordan.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.

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