Ballywinterrourke
Ballywinterrourke is a townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Mhuintir Ruairc.
- Area
- 194 ha
- 479 acres
- Land parcels
- 41
- registered freehold, median 11,779 m² (1.18 ha, 2.91 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 11
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
41 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywinterrourke, from 368 m² to 534,434 m² (53.44 ha, 132.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballywinterrourke 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
7 Nov 2025Conditional
a change of design to the dwelling house from that previously granted under planning file 24/318
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561148
4 Dec 2024Conditional
a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24455
22 Aug 2024Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. Outline Permission Ref. No. 21/902
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24330
13 Aug 2024Conditional
the renovation and construction of extensions to an existing dwelling house; to include an attached domestic garage, decommission of existing septic tank system and to install a new mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460806
6 Aug 2024Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works. Outline Permission Ref. No. 21/901
Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24318
28 Jun 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21902
28 Jun 2021Conditional
a dwelling house, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21901
12 Apr 2021Conditional
construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21470
11 Dec 2020Conditional
construction of a front porch extension, rear extension to our existing dwelling house, packaged wastewater treatment system and all associated services
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201328
21 Feb 2020Conditional
construction of a domestic garage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20153
27 Oct 2017Conditional
the construction of a single storey home gym and hobby room to rear of site
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17996
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 Ballywinterrourke.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-058 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture, on gentle W-facing slope below top of low rise. Circular area (diam. 43m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth 2.2m; D 1.8m). Bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 3.4m), heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth, is best preserved W->N. Entrance (Wth 3m) at SSW flanked by boulders at either side. Cattle break (Wth 2.4m) in bank at N. Field boundary, running along outer edge of fosse and completely encircling site, is abutted by other field boundaries at WSW, NE and SE. Level interior under pasture, but with clusters of nettles around edge. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI029-124 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) 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
- LI029-150 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of bivallate circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by two fosses visible on OSi orthophoto. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020
- LI029-151 Enclosure
Description
In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a fosse visible on OSi orthophoto. Only cropmark of levelled enclosure visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywinterrourke.
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 Ballywinterrourke, about 1 in 10 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_597 (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 Ballywinterrourke with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballywinterrourke · Baile Mhuintir Ruairc
- Area
- 1,939,545 m² (193.95 ha, 479.27 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyallinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 421 people lived in 151 households in the Ballyallinan electoral division. 84% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyallinan North, Ballywilliam North, Ballywinterrourkewood, Enniscoush, Graigue, Rathnaseer
- Placenames
- Ballywinterrourke 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.