Ballywinterrourkewood
Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Coill Bhaile Mhuintir Ruairc
- Area
- 141.4 ha
- 349 acres
- Land parcels
- 17
- registered freehold, median 21,780 m² (2.18 ha, 5.38 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywinterrourkewood, from 317 m² to 414,193 m² (41.42 ha, 102.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballywinterrourkewood 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
16 Jun 2020Conditional
existing agricultural gate to adjoining feld
Retention · Limerick County Council, 20513
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 Ballywinterrourkewood.
Recorded monuments
- LI029-125 Ringfort - rath
Description
In undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. However, a low scarped edge (H 0.2m; Wth 4m) SW->NNW may mark line of enclosing element. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywinterrourkewood.
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
- About 1 in 20 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballywinterrourkewood.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballywinterrourkewood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballywinterrourkewood · Coill Bhaile Mhuintir Ruairc
- Area
- 1,413,706 m² (141.37 ha, 349.33 acres)
- Civil parish
- Rathkeale, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Ballyallinan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballyallinan electoral division: 421 people in 151 households; 84% of households own 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, Ballyallinan South, Ballywinterrourke, Duckstown, Kilcolman East, Rathnaseer
- Placenames
- Ballywinterrourkewood 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.