Ballinlyny

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlyny, from 156 m² to 242,444 m² (24.24 ha, 59.91 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 36 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 Ballinlyny 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.

• 25 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a replacement site entrance and to block up the existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26196

• 6 Aug 2026N/a

  the installation of a 20kW ground mounted solar photovoltaic array with grid connection and associated works. Clonagh House is a Protected Structure (RPS Ref. No. 258). This development is covered by the provisions of the Renewable Energy Directive III (Directive (EU) 2023/2413) and it is important to note that the planning application may be subject to section 34D of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended. When a notice issues in accordance with section 34D(b), the provisions of article 26A of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2025 shall apply

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 26183

• 15 Oct 2025Refused

  a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 25342

• 24 Jul 2023Conditional

  the construction of a new garage, the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360527

• 17 Jun 2023N/a

  the construction of a new garage, the decommissioning of the existing wastewater treatment system and the installation of a new packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360422

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 Ballinlyny.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-070 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.75m). Interior used as dump for earth and stones; dump extends over triangular area (15.5m x 34m) to NE of enclosure. Two field boundaries, shown on 1923 OS 6-inch map abutting bank at NE, have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-074 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough grazing, atop low crag in area of limestone outcropping. Circular area (40m E-W; 39m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.4m) which is best preserved NW->ESE. Interior is bisected by low earth-and-stone bank on ESE-WNW axis, which fades out in places and stops 2m short of bank at ESE. Several areas of limestone outcrop in interior which is otherwise under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident in field of tall grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI029-008 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In strip of land, lying between two public roads (R523 & N21), which is covered by dense overgrowth. Described by O Rahilly (1990) as 'a D-shaped area- may originally have been circular but subsequently truncated to the south by the old road ... measures c. 34m east-west and the internal level is approx. 1m below surrounding ground level ... it may be a ring barrow site'. 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 Ballinlyny.

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 Ballinlyny, 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_513 (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 Ballinlyny with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballinlyny · Baile an Laighnigh

Area

1,079,341 m² (107.93 ha, 266.71 acres)

Civil parish

Kilscannell, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Riddlestown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

601 people lived in 200 households in the Riddlestown electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 31% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 4% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardbohil, Ardnaveagh, Clonagh, Killeheen, Reens East, Riddlestown

Placenames

Ballinlyny 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.