# Ballyvouden, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Kilteely, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Bhóidín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 914,976 m² (91.5 ha, 226.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 3 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Kilteely, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilteely.md - Barony: Coonagh - Electoral division: Kilteely, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 611 people lived in 222 households in the Kilteely electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 10% 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/31030 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120444 - Centre: latitude 52.528115, longitude -8.395469 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvouden, from 55 m² to 215,575 m² (21.56 ha, 53.27 acres); 25 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1645361: 215,575 m² (21.56 ha, 53.27 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1645361.md - Parcel 1667087: 139,136 m² (13.91 ha, 34.38 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667087.md - Parcel 1588459: 123,793 m² (12.38 ha, 30.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588459.md - Parcel 1650498: 97,496 m² (9.75 ha, 24.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650498.md - Parcel 1625002: 88,759 m² (8.88 ha, 21.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1625002.md - Parcel 1600689: 78,756 m² (7.88 ha, 19.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600689.md - Parcel 1641192: 63,150 m² (6.31 ha, 15.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641192.md - Parcel 1673577: 39,074 m² (3.91 ha, 9.66 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673577.md - Parcel 1599450: 23,021 m² (2.3 ha, 5.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1599450.md - Parcel 1674093: 4,626 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674093.md - Parcel 1607877: 4,488 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607877.md - Parcel 1604289: 4,471 m² (0.45 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1604289.md - Parcel 5674509: 3,981 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5674509.md - Parcel 1592366: 3,617 m² (0.36 ha, 0.89 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1592366.md - Parcel 1661846: 2,416 m² (0.24 ha, 0.6 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661846.md - Parcel 1601705: 2,338 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601705.md - Parcel 1598739: 2,312 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598739.md - Parcel 5594260: 2,245 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5594260.md - Parcel 1670437: 2,235 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1670437.md - Parcel 5582165: 1,153 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5582165.md - Parcel 1612591: 1,138 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612591.md - Parcel 3267261: 662 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267261.md - Parcel 3267262: 499 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267262.md - Parcel 1626713: 487 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1626713.md - Parcel 5280236: 355 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5280236.md - Parcel 3985295: 328 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3985295.md - Parcel 3267264: 285 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267264.md - Parcel 3987355: 282 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3987355.md - Parcel 3987135: 280 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3987135.md - Parcel 3267265: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267265.md - Parcel 2755458: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2755458.md - Parcel 2755463: 244 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2755463.md - Parcel 2676582: 236 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/2676582.md - Parcel 1596952: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1596952.md - Parcel 3267263: 224 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267263.md - Parcel 4925813: 63 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4925813.md - Parcel 1660798: 55 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660798.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvouden 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) 3 applications, newest first. - 8 Sept 2020, Limerick County Council 20889: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. construction of a new dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment unit and polishing filter, bored well, entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/20889/0 - 2 Jul 2018, Limerick County Council 18666: Conditional. Retention. a single storey extension to rear & eastern side of 2-storey dwelling. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18666/0 - 11 May 2018, Limerick County Council 18462: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, garage, front entrance, and ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18462/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyvouden. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI024-064: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-064----. In wet unimproved pasture, 170m SE of Glenatrahaun Stream. A ring-barrow (LI024-214----) lies 50m to S. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork. Surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as a circular-shaped area (diam. 16m) defined by a scarp (H 0.75m), with fosse (Wth 4.55m; base Wth 2m; D 0.65m) visible from SE-S-W-N-NNE and an outer bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.65m; ext. H 0.25m) is evident from SE-S-W-N-NNE. A raised oval shape area (3m N-S; 5.5m E-W) defined by scarp (Wth 1.3m; H 0.5m) is visible in S quadrant of the interior and could be the remains of a small ring-ditch. A field boundary lies to the immediate W of the monument. Ring-barrow is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork on ASI aerial photograph (ASIAP 132, 33, 34 taken 23/058/2000 and 05/01/2003). Well preserved monument visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-sections surveyed and drawn by the ASI. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 18 July 2020 - LI024-214: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-214----. In wet pasture, 260m S of Glenatrahaun Stream and the townland boundary with Ballynagally. A ring-barrow (LI024-064----) lies 50m to N and an enclosure (LI024-215----) is located abutting the ring-barrow to the E. The ring-barrow is not depicted on historic OSi maps, but is visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 30.1; AP 4/3631) as a circular ring-barrow (ext. diam. c. 25m), the site is characterised by a central wide interior surrounded by a fosse (Wth 2m). The Bruff survey identified a central mound (Bruff 30.2) within the interior of the site. Recorded by ASI aerial photographic survey 23/08/2000 (ASIAP (132) 34. The ring-barrow is faintly visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 30.1-2, ASI survey image showing the ring-barrow view S, and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020 - LI024-215: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI024-215----. In wet pasture, 265m S of Glenatrahaun Stream and the townland boundary with Ballynagally. A ring-barrow (LI024-064----) lies 55m to N and an enclosure (LI024-214----) is located abutting the enclosure to the W. The enclosure is not depicted on historic OSi maps but is faintly visible on OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 or on Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 30.3; AP 4/3631) as a U-shaped enclosure (ext. diam. c. 22m). Faintly visible on the ASI aerial photographic survey 23/08/2000 (ASIAP (132) 33). The enclosure is not visible on the most recent Google Earth orthoimages taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image showing the site labelled Bruff 30.1-2, ASI survey image showing the enclosure view S, and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020 - LI033-015001: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-015001-. In wet unimproved pasture, 10m W of a stream. A ring-barrow (LI024-214----) lies 150m to NW. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a raised roughly circular-shaped area (dims. 26m NNE-SSW; 24m ESE-WNW) defined by a scarp and outer fosse (base Wth 9.5m; D 0.75m) from E-NW. The raised interior (max. H. 2.65m) has a possible ring-barrow in S quadrant. The monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork surrounded by a ditch overgrown with rushes on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 3 April 2021 - LI033-015002: Barrow - ring-barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-015002-. In the S quadrant of large barrow or burial mound (LI033-015001-). Surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a sub-circular shaped area (4.2m N-S; 4.5m E-W) defined by a scarp (Wth 1m; H 1.2m), fosse (base Wth 0.5m) and outer bank (Wth 2.75m; H 0.2m). Visible as a roughly circular-shaped depression (diam. c. 4m) in the S of interior on OSi orthophotos 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages dated 18/11/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 3 April 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 132/35 on 23/08/2000. 352/24 on 05/01/2003. 353/13, 15, 19 on 05/01/2003. - LI033-061: Ritual site - holy well, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-061----. Ó Danachair (1955, 206) recorded the following details about this holy well; 'St Patrick's Well (not in Gothic) on revised 6-inch survey. A good spring, surrounded by a wall, with a cattle drinking trough. No evidence of devotion'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 02 July 2019 - LI033-062001: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-062001-. In wet pasture, 125m W of a stream. Ring barrow (LI024-214----) lies 25m to NE and enclosure (LI033-117----) 80m to W. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 52; AP 4/3631) as a circular cropmark. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012, on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 and on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 March 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 132/35 23/08/2000. 352/24, 25 and 353/8, 11, 12, 14, 13, 14 05/01/2003. - LI033-062002: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-062002-. In wet pasture, immediately W of a field boundary running N-S. Enclosure (LI033-117----) lies 60m to NW and enclosure (LI033-062001-) 70m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 51; AP 4/3631) as a circular -shaped cropmark. Visible as a raised roughly circular-shaped platform (diam. 30m) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012, on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 and on oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 March 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP - 132/35 23/08/2000. 352/24, 25 and 353/8, 11, 12, 14, 13, 14 05/01/2003. - LI033-065: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-065----. In wet pasture, 145m W of a stream, transected at S by a post-1700 field boundary running NW-SE. Ring-barrow (LI033-015001-) lies 100m to NE with enclosure (LI033-062002-) 125m to NW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 53; AP 4/3631) as a circular-shaped cropmark. Visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. c. 23m) on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 23 March 2021 - LI033-117: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-117----. In wet pasture, 75m W of a field boundary running N-S. Enclosure (LI033-062002-) lies 50m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Curvilineaer cropmark identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 125.01; AP 4/3631) as a possible enclosure. Visible as a faint cropmark truncated by a field drain running NW-SE on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12. Not visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. Doubtful antiquity could be the remains of a watercourse rather than an archaeological enclosure. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 125.01. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 April 2021 - LI033-118: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-118----. In wet pasture, 60m S of a field boundary running E-W. Enclosure (LI033-062002-) lies 60m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 125.02; AP 4/3631) as a sub-circular-shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a fosse from SE-N-E with a central circular depression or possible ditch barrow (LI033-119----). Not visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12. Visible as a area clear of vegetation on Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020. The monument is intersected at E by a drainage ditch/farm track running NW-SE. Doubtful antiquity, may be a drainage ditch rather than an antiquity. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 125.02. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 April 2021 - LI033-119: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-119----. In wet pasture, 60m S of a field boundary running E-W. Enclosure (LI033-062002-) lies 60m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 125.03; AP 4/3631) as a sub-circular-shaped area (LI033-118----) defined by a fosse with a central circular-shaped depression (diam. c. 5m) which may be the remains of a possible ditch barrow. Not visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 125.03. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 April 2021 - LI033-120: Barrow - unclassified, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI033-120----. In wet pasture, 20m S of a field boundary running E-W. Enclosure (LI033-062002-) lies 80m to S. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 125.04; AP 4/3631) as a ring-barrow. Possible vegetation mark visible on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 125.04. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 17 April 2021 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 Ballyvouden. ## 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 Ballyvouden, 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 Ballyvouden. - 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/ballyvouden.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvouden.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvouden.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyvouden 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) - Ballynagally: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynagally.md - Kildromin: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kildromin.md - Kilteely: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilteely.md - Knockroe: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockroe-121431.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/milltown-121550.md - Scart: https://everytownland.com/limerick/scart-121798.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. --- 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. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvouden - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyvouden