# Bawnacouma, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Kilpeacon, barony of Smallcounty, Co. Limerick; in Irish Bán an Champa.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 818,336 m² (81.83 ha, 202.22 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010
- Civil parish: Kilpeacon, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/kilpeacon.md
- Barony: Smallcounty
- Electoral division: Kilpeacon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 561 people lived in 192 households in the Kilpeacon electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30720
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120468
- Centre: latitude 52.57789, longitude -8.631547 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnacouma, from 376 m² to 260,186 m² (26.02 ha, 64.29 acres); 20 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1657848: 260,186 m² (26.02 ha, 64.29 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657848.md
- Parcel 1588473: 192,834 m² (19.28 ha, 47.65 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588473.md
- Parcel 1644132: 87,287 m² (8.73 ha, 21.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644132.md
- Parcel 3266314: 78,828 m² (7.88 ha, 19.48 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3266314.md
- Parcel 1606625: 68,929 m² (6.89 ha, 17.03 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1606625.md
- Parcel 1611248: 17,174 m² (1.72 ha, 4.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1611248.md
- Parcel 1589853: 12,607 m² (1.26 ha, 3.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589853.md
- Parcel 1647612: 12,166 m² (1.22 ha, 3.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647612.md
- Parcel 1644131: 12,054 m² (1.21 ha, 2.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1644131.md
- Parcel 1623677: 11,855 m² (1.19 ha, 2.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623677.md
- Parcel 1623676: 8,769 m² (0.88 ha, 2.17 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1623676.md
- Parcel 1610640: 7,756 m² (0.78 ha, 1.92 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1610640.md
- Parcel 5161141: 4,114 m² (0.41 ha, 1.02 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5161141.md
- Parcel 1627127: 3,648 m² (0.36 ha, 0.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1627127.md
- Parcel 5619675: 3,423 m² (0.34 ha, 0.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5619675.md
- Parcel 1650642: 2,468 m² (0.25 ha, 0.61 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650642.md
- Parcel 1656460: 2,360 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656460.md
- Parcel 2386971: 2,356 m² (0.24 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/2386971.md
- Parcel 1667945: 2,321 m² (0.23 ha, 0.57 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667945.md
- Parcel 1667077: 2,220 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1667077.md
- Parcel 1603315: 2,119 m² (0.21 ha, 0.52 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1603315.md
- Parcel 1600680: 1,986 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1600680.md
- Parcel 1612751: 1,888 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612751.md
- Parcel 1659060: 1,580 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659060.md
- Parcel 1665839: 1,567 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1665839.md
- Parcel 1657161: 1,426 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657161.md
- Parcel 1608405: 1,124 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608405.md
- Parcel 1659439: 839 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1659439.md
- Parcel 1656768: 685 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1656768.md
- Parcel 5619676: 510 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/5619676.md
- Parcel 1605572: 376 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605572.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

No zone of a development plan covers Bawnacouma 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)

2 applications, newest first.

- 23 Jan 2026, Limerick County Council 2660049: Conditional. Permission. the demolition of an existing domestic garage, permission to construct a new replacement domestic garage, a new front porch extension to existing dwelling, modifications to existing site entrance and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660049/0
- 27 Sept 2018, Limerick County Council 18943: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. an entrance, single storey dwelling house, garage, private well, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/18943/0

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## 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 Bawnacouma.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI022-027: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-027----. In gently undulating tillage with poor views in all directions, 150m W of townland boundary with Kilpeacon and standing stone (LI022-236----) 125m to SW. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a large circular shaped area enclosed by a scarp, not marked on subsequent editions, likely that monument was levelled between the map dates. Faint trace of cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018. See attached Google earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 July 2020
- LI022-029: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-029----. Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a circular space enclosed by an earthen bank. Outside this there is a fosse. The interior seems level with the field outside. Quite recently the bank has been faced with stones on the outside. These have been collected off the neighbouring fields. It is now used as a paddock and the original entrance on the east side has been narrowed and fitted with a gate. Fences have been built against the rampart on the N. W. and S.E. sides. The overall diameter is 150' [46m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 244). Tree-covered monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2020
- LI022-236: Standing stone, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-236----. In level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-027----) located 125m to NNE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly diamond shaped upright stone (H 1.2m) with its long axis orientated NNW-SSE. The rock which appears to be a conglomerate has packing stones at the base. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 7 August 2020

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)

- Post box, 1880–1890, Regional interest, registry number 21902217, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902217. Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1885, bearing crown and royal insignia of Queen Victoria. Mounted in boundary wall to roadside.

## 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 Bawnacouma, about 1 in 5 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 Bawnacouma.
- 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/bawnacouma.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bawnacouma.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/bawnacouma.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Bawnacouma 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)

- Badgerfort: https://everytownland.com/limerick/badgerfort.md
- Fanningstown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/fanningstown-120972.md
- Kilpeacon: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilpeacon.md
- Newtown: https://everytownland.com/limerick/newtown-121643.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.

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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/bawnacouma
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