Ballyvologe
Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Bhológ
- Area
- 113.2 ha
- 280 acres
- Land parcels
- 36
- registered freehold, median 3,284 m² (0.33 ha, 0.81 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
36 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvologe, from 627 m² to 250,209 m² (25.02 ha, 61.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 32 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvologe 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
19 May 2026N/a
agricultural sheds consisting of a slatted unit, calf and store sheds and associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660560
16 May 2025Conditional
the construction of two single storey rear extensions to an existing dwelling house and the conversion of a garage to residential accommodation
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560460
20 Oct 2020Conditional
the construction of a garage to the side of the dwelling and an extension to the rear of the dwelling and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201053
5 Jun 2020Conditional
the refurbishment and alterations to their existing house, a single storey extension to the front of the house and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20468
11 May 2020Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, to install on site treatment plant and percolation area, construction of a new entrance together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20381
3 Mar 2020Conditional
a change of use from a domestic garage to a pre-school and increase number permitted under previous planning ref 16/779 from 11 up to 19 children until the end of 2022/2023 school year, replace window with a double door to front of pre-school, hardcore yard car park spaces and permission to upgrade waste water treatment and disposal treatment system and all associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20186
17 Oct 2019Refused
a change of use from a domestic garage to a pre-school and increase number permitted under previous planning ref. 16/779 from 11 up to 22 children, replace window with a double door to front of pre-school, hardcore yard car park spaces and Permission to upgrade waste water treatment and disposal system and all associated works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 191029
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 Ballyvologe.
Recorded monuments
- LI030-090 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on NNE-facing slope in saddle between higher ground to E and W. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Only trace of site apart is arc of low rise (max. H 0.1m) E->SSE which may be remains of levelled bank. According to local information enclosure levelled in late 1970s when surrounding field boundaries removed to create large pasture field. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI038-022 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on SE-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now covered by dense overgrowth. As far as could be ascertained site is enclosed by an earthen bank (ext. H c. 1m) with an external fosse (D 1.6m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI038-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In rough pasture, on SE slopes of Knockfeerina mountain. Roughly circular area (c. 35m E-W; c. 40m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 2.1m). A field boundary skirts around enclosure so that site is contained within small field which is completely covered by a thorn thicket. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI038-025 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. 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 Ballyvologe.
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
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvologe.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballyvologe with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvologe · Baile Bhológ
- Area
- 1,132,372 m² (113.24 ha, 279.82 acres)
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry(Croom Ra), and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Upper
- Electoral division
- Ballygrennan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballygrennan electoral division: 296 people in 108 households; 90% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballygrennan, Common, Graigacurragh, Killoughty, Kilmacanearla South
- Placenames
- Ballyvologe 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.