Ballyshonickbane

40 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonickbane, from 132 m² to 177,546 m² (17.75 ha, 43.87 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Ballyshonickbane 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.

• 14 Sept 2023Conditional

  the relocation of existing Agricultural Entrance, construction of a Livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360674

• 9 Dec 2022Conditional

  the conservatory to the side elevation, rear extension and conversion of existing garage to part of kitchen

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221321

• 3 Aug 2022Refused

  the construction of a dwelling house, entrance, install of a wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22845

• 7 Aug 2020N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling and domestic garage, the installation of a waste water treatment system, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 20767

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 Ballyshonickbane.

Recorded monuments

• LI011-025 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Carriganea Castle in the townland of Ballyshonickbane stands on a moated rocky knoll, in woodland, surrounded by marshy ground, townland boundary with Drominclara 75m to N and Tobermurry 180m to E. Described by Westropp as a rectangular-shaped tower (H 18ft [6m] x Wth 16ft [4.8m]) standing on a rocky knoll which is approx. 30ft [9m] high and defined around the base by a wide fosse visible at N. On top of the rock there were two ivy-covered ruinous buildings (1906-7, 159). The castle of Carraig an Fhiaigh [Carriganea] was described in 1840 as standing 'on a limestone rock which is surrounded by a bog which rendered it not easy of access. Parts of its north and south walls to the height of about eighteen feet [5.5m] are standing but even the foundations of the other walls cannot be traced, which renders it impossible to determine its original extent, which however was not very considerable as the distance between the walls remaining is only sixteen feet [4.9m]' [OSL Kilcornan Parish; O'Flanagan 1929, 23) Castle held by the Knight of Glin in 1578, later known as Cowleshonikyne, when held by rebel Thomas Came during the late 16th/early 17th century (ibid., 158). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Thomas FitzGerrald of Glin and alderman Nicholas Fanning were the owners of land in Ballyshonickbane which contained 'two good houses, and Cottages on it' (Simington 1938, 354). Two buildings standing beside each other are depicted in the townland of Ballyshonickbane on the 1657 Down Survey map of Kenry barony (Hib. Reg.). Depicted on the OS 25-inch map as a rectangular-shaped structure (approx. dims. 10m E-W x 7.5m N-S) annotated ‘Carriganea Castle (in ruins)’, standing in the angle where two watercourses split and flow past c. 15m to N and 22m to W. That to N curves around the base of the castle rock and may correspond to the wide fosse mentioned by Westropp. According to historic and modern OS mapping, this appears to terminate close to E and may have been a deliberate leat excavated as an added defensive moated feature. Obscured by woodland on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and 1657 Down Survey Barony map. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 8 July 2020

• LI011-026 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, near foot of W-facing hill-slope, in area of outcropping limestone densely covered with briars and bracken. Oval area (22m N-S; 27.2m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.6m) W->SSE and defined by scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1m) SSE->W. Interior surface uneven with bedrock outcropping in places; linear depression (D 0.4m; Wth 1.3m), on rough E-W axis, near S edge. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-129 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop hill, in area of outcropping limestone. Oval area (38m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.7m). Bank, best preserved SW->E, partially incorporates bedrock outcrops elsewhere. It is covered by briars and bushes W->N. Possible entrance (Wth 7m) E->SSE where bank lowers. Seam of limestone bedrock (H c. 0.6m), on rough N-S axis, cuts across interior as chord c. 9m from W edge. Otherwise interior level and under rough pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-130 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop limestone hillock. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Field where site located has very uneven surface with numerous humps and hollows due to outcropping limestone. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-148 Enclosure
  Description

  On a gentle S-facing slope, in gently undulating, rough pasture, c. 20m to W of a stream. Not depicted on OS mapping. Identified as a possible enclosure from aerial photograph taken by the Archaeological Survey of Ireland in 2006 (ASIAP 04/03/2006). Visible as a subcircular-shaped area (15m NE-SW; 12m NW-SE) of differential growth in an area of wet scrub on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/07/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyshonickbane, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyshonickbane.

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

Name

Ballyshonickbane · Baile Sheoinic Bháin

Area

1,113,278 m² (111.33 ha, 275.1 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Pallaskenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,104 people lived in 392 households in the Pallaskenry electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahane, Blossomhill, Boherboy, Cragreagh, Crokerspark, Drominaclara, Glennameade, Tobermurry

Placenames

Ballyshonickbane 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.