# Ballyvulhane, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Uregare, barony of Coshma, Co. Limerick; in Irish Baile Uí Mhothláin. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 1,274,052 m² (127.41 ha, 314.83 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Uregare, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/uregare.md - Barony: Coshma - Electoral division: Uregare, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31108 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120445 - Centre: latitude 52.460474, longitude -8.519089 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvulhane, from 68 m² to 240,571 m² (24.06 ha, 59.45 acres); 24 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1647496: 240,571 m² (24.06 ha, 59.45 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647496.md - Parcel 1616426: 226,728 m² (22.67 ha, 56.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616426.md - Parcel 1653904: 218,956 m² (21.9 ha, 54.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653904.md - Parcel 1667897: 170,759 m² (17.08 ha, 42.2 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667897.md - Parcel 1671958: 88,135 m² (8.81 ha, 21.78 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1671958.md - Parcel 5876754: 76,551 m² (7.66 ha, 18.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5876754.md - Parcel 5306635: 72,999 m² (7.3 ha, 18.04 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5306635.md - Parcel 4842683: 66,225 m² (6.62 ha, 16.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4842683.md - Parcel 4902163: 65,463 m² (6.55 ha, 16.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4902163.md - Parcel 5306614: 7,957 m² (0.8 ha, 1.97 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5306614.md - Parcel 3266676: 4,628 m² (0.46 ha, 1.14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266676.md - Parcel 1595653: 3,953 m² (0.4 ha, 0.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1595653.md - Parcel 1665213: 3,892 m² (0.39 ha, 0.96 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665213.md - Parcel 1637399: 2,614 m² (0.26 ha, 0.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637399.md - Parcel 1640984: 2,567 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640984.md - Parcel 5306613: 2,407 m² (0.24 ha, 0.59 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5306613.md - Parcel 1674453: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674453.md - Parcel 4165320: 2,352 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4165320.md - Parcel 1657993: 2,331 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657993.md - Parcel 1602171: 2,296 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1602171.md - Parcel 4013582: 2,183 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4013582.md - Parcel 1631117: 2,162 m² (0.22 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631117.md - Parcel 5290717: 2,133 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5290717.md - Parcel 1666513: 2,060 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1666513.md - Parcel 1622541: 2,041 m² (0.2 ha, 0.5 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622541.md - Parcel 4842617: 834 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4842617.md - Parcel 4842736: 722 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4842736.md - Parcel 4842731: 455 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4842731.md - Parcel 5876740: 68 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5876740.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvulhane 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) 1 application, newest first. - 6 Mar 2026, Limerick County Council 2660256: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660256/0 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 Ballyvulhane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI040-050001: Field system, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-050001-. In reclaimed pasture, in the townlands of Tankardstown, Goat Island and Ballyvulhane, associated with enclosures (LI040-050002/003-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 040116) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 2553) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh Wes-Limerick gas pipeline (Strip Map 5, Site 5/11). Visible on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 82; AP 5/2108) as linear cropmarks perpendicular to each other. Field system visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE Site 5/11) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 May 2021 - LI040-050005: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-050005-. In pasture, immediately N of townland boundary with Tankardstown, in SE quadrant of a field system (LI040-050001-), a rectangular enclosure (LI040-050004-) lies 50m to the SE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 82 (1); AP 5/2108) as a small circular mound. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff survey image showing mound and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 May 2021 - LI040-151: Earthwork, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-151----. In reclaimed wet pasture, 50m W of watercourse, a possible barrow (LI040-155----) lies 130m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 84; AP 5/2108) as an earthwork complex. Linear cropmarks visible perpendicular to each other on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 may represent a relic watercourse in S quadrant and a relic post-1700 field boundary in N quadrant. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021 - LI040-155: Barrow - ditch barrow, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI040-155----. In reclaimed wet pasture, a possible enclosure (LI040-151----) lies 130m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 61) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) in a field with drainage channels and cultivation ridges running E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph or Digital Globe orthoimage. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 June 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) - Ballyvulhane Bridge, bridge, 1819–1830, Regional interest, registry number 21904001, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC®no=21904001. Three-arch road bridge, built c. 1820; rebuilt 1922, over Morningstar River. Coursed rubble limestone walls, with parapet walls, with cut copings. Rendered parapet wall to rebuilt section with date plaque having incised lettering. Tooled stone plinths to piers. V-cutwaters to upstream elevations. Round-headed arches flanking recent flat arch with concrete supports. Tooled stone voussoirs to round-headed arches. ## 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 Ballyvulhane, about 1 in 10 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 low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvulhane. - 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/ballyvulhane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvulhane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyvulhane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ballyvulhane 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) - Baggotstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baggotstown.md - Baggotstown West: https://everytownland.com/limerick/baggotstown-west.md - Ballincolloo: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballincolloo.md - Ballygrennan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballygrennan-120252.md - Goatisland: https://everytownland.com/limerick/goatisland.md - Kyle: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kyle.md - Meadagh: https://everytownland.com/limerick/meadagh.md - Milltown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/milltown-121554.md - Tankardstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/tankardstown.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/ballyvulhane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ballyvulhane