# Downs, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Ballingarry(Croom Ra), barony of Connello Upper, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Dún. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 708,619 m² (70.86 ha, 175.1 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 4,540 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Ballingarry(Croom Ra), https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/ballingarry-croom-ra.md - Barony: Connello Upper - Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% 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/30510 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120892 - Centre: latitude 52.466219, longitude -8.868257 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downs, from 1,854 m² to 390,085 m² (39.01 ha, 96.39 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1589937: 390,085 m² (39.01 ha, 96.39 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589937.md - Parcel 1640626: 116,122 m² (11.61 ha, 28.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640626.md - Parcel 1640620: 100,768 m² (10.08 ha, 24.9 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640620.md - Parcel 1640619: 77,139 m² (7.71 ha, 19.06 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1640619.md - Parcel 1601831: 4,951 m² (0.5 ha, 1.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601831.md - Parcel 3888491: 4,540 m² (0.45 ha, 1.12 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3888491.md - Parcel 1653616: 4,024 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1653616.md - Parcel 1608329: 4,020 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608329.md - Parcel 1637972: 2,886 m² (0.29 ha, 0.71 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1637972.md - Parcel 1650720: 2,228 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650720.md - Parcel 1629093: 1,854 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1629093.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Downs 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. - 16 Jul 2026, Limerick County Council 2660813: Conditional. Permission. the construction of single storey extensions to the west and east of the existing dwelling, the installation of a new septic tank, percolation area and all ancillary works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660813/0 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 Downs. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI037-034: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-034----. In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 27m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m), with an external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 3m) E->W. Interior level and partially covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI037-037: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-037----. In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 32m) defined by scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 1.8m). Outside this and concentric with it is earthen bank (int. H 1.35m; ext. H 0.8m). Distance between banks is 8.4m; this area is slightly lower than interior and surrounding field level. Outer bank truncated by field boundary SE->SW. Field clearance debris dumped around perimeter of site. Interior slopes gently up from centre to edges, and is largely covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI037-038: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-038----. In pasture, on S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked ovoid enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 45m E-W) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now largely inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. As far as could be ascertained the enclosing element consists of a low earthen bank with a shallow external fosse. Field boundary skirts enclosing element E->S, as does public road S->W. Both of these may have truncated enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 - LI037-039: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-039----. In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (68m E-W; 72m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.25m) with an external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1m). Field boundary runs along outer line of fosse WNW->SSE. Roughly rectangular raised platform (24m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.4m; Wth 2.4m) in SE quadrant of interior against inner base of bank. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Downs. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 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: 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 Downs. - 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/downs.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/downs.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/downs.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Downs 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) - Ballynarooga Beg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynarooga-beg.md - Ballynarooga Beg (East): https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynarooga-beg-east.md - Ballynarooga Beg (West): https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynarooga-beg-west.md - Cloonregan: https://everytownland.com/limerick/cloonregan.md - Doonbeirne: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonbeirne.md - Knightstreet: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knightstreet.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/downs - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/downs