Downs

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Downs, from 1,854 m² to 390,085 m² (39.01 ha, 96.39 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.

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.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 16 Jul 2026Conditional

  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

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660813

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 Downs.

Recorded monuments

• LI037-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Downs.

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 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 Downs.

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 Downs with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Downs · An Dún

Area

708,619 m² (70.86 ha, 175.1 acres)

Civil parish

Ballingarry(croom Ra), and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynarooga Beg, Ballynarooga Beg (east), Ballynarooga Beg (west), Cloonregan, Doonbeirne, Knightstreet

Placenames

Downs 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.