Ballywilliam Demesne

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywilliam Demesne, from 306 m² to 174,670 m² (17.47 ha, 43.16 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballywilliam Demesne 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballywilliam Demesne 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.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballywilliam Demesne.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballywilliam Demesne.

Architectural heritage

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former rectory, built c. 1810, having shallow recessed centre-bay and three-bay single-storey extension to north. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, timber brackets and rendered chimneystacks. Rendered walls with cut limestone plinth course. Square-headed opening having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Those to end-bays having raised render surrounds with recessed round-headed shallow niches to ground floor window openings. Round-headed opening to north elevation having multiple-pane timber sliding sash window and limestone sill. Segmental-headed opening having timber Doric style pilasters with recessed panels, sidelights having diamond pattern and flanking pilasters supporting carved timber entablature with cobweb fanlight over timber panelled door. Limestone steps to entrance. Seven-bay two-storey outbuilding to north with hipped slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, some with timber louvered vents. Square-headed door openings. Elliptical-headed openings having double-leaf metal doors. Seven-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-west with single-pitched slate roof and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills. Square-headed door openings. Rubble limestone boundary walls to north courtyard. Pair of rubble limestone square-profile piers to north courtyard with double-leaf cast-iron gates and adjoining square-headed pedestrian entrance and single-leaf cast-iron gate. Pair of round-profile cast-iron piers to east having rounded finials and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Sweeping rendered walls with cut limestone cappings.

• Ballywilliam, gate lodge, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey former gate lodge, built c. 1800, having pedimented breakfront to front (east) elevation. Pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystacks, limestone copings and eaves course. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window opening with limestone sill, now blocked up. Square-headed door openings, now blocked up. Cut limestone Doric columns to breakfront. Rendered sweeping walls to site with cut limestone copings terminating in pair of square-profile ashlar limestone piers to north and south.

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).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_647 (ZIP).

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.

No address of the register names Ballywilliam Demesne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballywilliam Demesne · Diméin Bhaile Liam

Area

861,311 m² (86.13 ha, 212.83 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Rathkeale Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Rathkeale Rural electoral division: 315 people in 113 households; 92% of households own their home; 22% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Amogan More, Ballymacave, Ballywilliam South, Beechmount Demesne, Dromard Demesne, Parklewis

Placenames

Ballywilliam Demesne 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.