Ballyvoneen
Ballyvoneen is a townland in the civil parish of Dromkeen, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile an Mhóinín.
- Area
- 68.8 ha
- 170 acres
- Land parcels
- 29
- registered freehold, median 2,380 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvoneen, from 24 m² to 222,889 m² (22.29 ha, 55.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 18 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 Ballyvoneen 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
No planning application touches the townland of Ballyvoneen in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 Ballyvoneen.
Recorded monuments
- LI024-112 Enclosure - large enclosure
Description
In reclaimed pasture, on the floodplain of the Dead River 190m to N and its confluence with the Mulkear River 210m to NW. Monument identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 133: AP 4/3730) as a substantial oval-shaped cropmark which is cut by a drainage channel running WNW-ESE across the NE sector. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 80m NW-SE x 76m NE-SW) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 July 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyvoneen.
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 Ballyvoneen, about 1 in 20 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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1217 (ZIP).
- 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 Ballyvoneen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvoneen · Baile an Mhóinín
- Area
- 688,437 m² (68.84 ha, 170.12 acres)
- Civil parish
- Dromkeen, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Grean, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 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.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bunavie, Dromeenboy, Linfield, Lisheen, Nicker
- Placenames
- Ballyvoneen 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.