Ballyshane

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshane, from 430 m² to 170,085 m² (17.01 ha, 42.03 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballyshane 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.

• 18 May 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660557

• 22 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of a single storey garage and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360094

• 23 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of extensions to existing dwelling house, change of use of existing domestic shed to residential use and link same to existing dwelling house, raise height of existing front boundary wall, all with connection to existing services and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20949

• 29 Nov 2019Conditional

  a domestic house with detached domestic garage, front boundary entrance walls, installation of a new mechanical aeration unit with polishing filter system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 191186

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 Ballyshane.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-128 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a slight NNE-facing slope. Circular area (28.1m N-S; 28.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.25m) with external fosse (D 0.65m; Wth 2.75m). Gap (Wth 2.15m) across scarped edge at S. Fosse partially infilled SW->WNW. A field boundary abuts outer edge of fosse at NE. Another field boundary, shown skirting enclosure NE->E on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been removed. Interior slopes down slightly to W, and is under pasture except margins which are covered by overgrowth as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-131 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In level pasture. Well consists of spring in earth-cut pool (diam. 2.3m; D 0.65m) with outflow drain on N side. Outflow runs N-S joining SW-N. Had gone out of use by 1950s (Ó Danachair 1955, 211) though OS Name Books record it as 'a holy well … celebrated for curing lameness and blindness' (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-135 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 30m) defined by scarped edge (H 1.05m; Wth 0.8m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 2.65m) SE->NE. Field boundary runs along top of scarped edge NE->SE; fosse infilled along this arc of enclosure. Interior is completely covered by dense overgrown of trees and bushes. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 324/17 on 05/10/2002.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyshane, about 1 in 20 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_440 (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 Ballyshane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyshane · Baile Sheáin

Area

557,824 m² (55.78 ha, 137.84 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Monagay, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,260 people lived in 446 households in the Monagay electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballintubbrid, Ballinvallig, Ballycluvane, Gardenfield, Glebe

Placenames

Ballyshane 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.