Ballinroche North

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinroche North, from 379 m² to 172,387 m² (17.24 ha, 42.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 6 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballinroche North 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.

• 17 Dec 2025Conditional

  a new Limerick GAA Training Centre consisting of demolition of 3 no. sheds, overground storage tank and ancillary structures associated with the abattoir and agricultural enterprise; demolition of extensions to the existing building ‘Prospect Hall’ and demolition of an outbuilding; construction of new sports training facilities comprising 6 no. floodlit natural grass pitches, 2 no. floodlit all-weather synthetic pitches, 1 no. sod replacement pitch, 1 no. indoor pitch, 2 no. three-sided precast concrete ball walls with netting, fencing, goal posts, goal post netting and dug-outs to all playing pitches; re-purposing of existing walled garden to incorporate all-weather synthetic training area; two-storey Pavilion Building 4,285m² approx. to include changing rooms, gym, first aid/physiotherapy rooms, meeting rooms, offices, multi-purpose hall, auditorium, kitchen and dining space, service courtyard, storage and plant including roof-mounted solar PV panels; refurbishment and change of use of ‘Prospect Hall’ from residential use to commercial use to include new link corridor to new Pavilion Building; maintenance shed, external storage compound, storage building, ESB substation compound comprising substation building and energy compound, bat roost building; new vehicular entrance on Local Road L8002 to the east of the existing entrance to provide vehicular, pedestrian and cyclist access, new entrance walls and gate; agricultural access via existing vehicular entrance on L8002; internal roadways and footpaths to include amenity walking paths with associated landscaping and public lighting; surface car parking, bicycle parking, bus parking and vehicular set-down zone; removal of existing boundary hedgerow on L8002 local road for 690m west of the proposed access and 90m east of the proposed access to provide road widening; new proprietary wastewater treatment plant and associated constructed wetland, extension of existing 10kV/20kV overhead ESB lines, set back of existing Eircom poles; surface water drainage systems to include decommissioning of sections of existing drains and installation of 2 no. culverts at proposed footpath crossing points on existing drains being retained; extension of existing Uisce Éireann (Irish Water) watermain on Local Road L8002 to the proposed site entrance (460 metres approx.) and new watermain system within the development; the development will also include ancillary plant, storage areas, signage, public lighting, bin stores, boundar

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561346

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 Ballinroche North.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight E-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI022-002----) 20m to NE. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 30m) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 4.6m; int. H 0.15; ext. H 0.3m) which is almost reduced to a scarp and an external fosse (overall Wth 7m; base Wth 2.7m; D 0.2m). The outer line of the fosse is incorporated into a field boundary from SE-S-SW. The interior is level, dry and densely overgrown with vegetation around the perimeter. A field system is visible to E and S. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020

• LI022-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a slight E-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Ringfort (LI022-001----) 20m to SW. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2001 and described as a slightly raised oval-shaped area (58m N-S; 52m E-W) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.65; ext. H 0.7m) from SE-S-W-N-NE, which is incorporated into a field boundary from NNW-N-NE and a bank (Wth 6m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.5m) which is almost reduced to a scarp from NE-E-SE. The surface of the interior has irregular undulations, which may indicate internal divisions. A field system is visible to E and SE. Monument is visible as a roughly oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 11 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

At the centre of the townland of Ballinroche North, about 1 in 5 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_910 (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.

No address of the register names Ballinroche North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballinroche North · Baile an Róistigh Thuaidh

Area

487,412 m² (48.74 ha, 120.44 acres)

Civil parish

Crecora, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Crecora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 155 households in the Crecora electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinroche East, Fortetna, Jockeyhall, Richmondvilla

Placenames

Ballinroche North 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.