Ballyneety

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyneety, from 54 m² to 119,440 m² (11.94 ha, 29.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 13 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 Ballyneety 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.

• 24 Aug 2026N/a

  a change of use from private residential to short term letting accommodation. Ballyneety Thatch Cottage is a Protected Structure (RPS. No. 981) and listed on the National Inventory for Architectural Heritage (NIAH) Ref. No. 21901405

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660966

• 9 Feb 2021Conditional

  change of use from commercial to residential(1 bedroom apartment) at first floor level of existing building & associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21133

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 Ballyneety.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-061 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Westropp (1906-07, 88) recorded the following details about Ballyneety or Whitestown Castle; '1619 Edm. Comyn held Whitestown C[astle]. At his death his son W. succeeded. 1655 Whitestown, alias Ballyneety, Castle. in Luidenbeg held by Lau[rence]. Comyn (D.S.A., 14, 26, C.S., xxi., p. 37). 1666 To Duke of York. 1702 To Alderman Rob. Twigg'. Tower-house like castle depicted in Whitestown alias Ballyneety on the 17th century Down Survey map of Clanwilliam Barony (Hib. Reg.) and on the parish map of Luddenbeg (NLI MS. 718). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Lawrence Comyne of Whitestowne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of these lands (Simington 1938, 85). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 December 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1790, having shallow windbreak and shopfront to front (south) elevation. Hipped thatched roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to windbreak having half-glazed timber panelled door. Shopfront comprising square-headed display opening with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window and square-headed opening having timber panelled double-leaf doors.

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 Ballyneety, 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_1024 (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 Ballyneety with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyneety · Baile an Fhaoitigh

Area

381,854 m² (38.19 ha, 94.36 acres)

Civil parish

Cahernarry, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

16,540 people lived in 5,566 households in the Ballysimon electoral division. 59% of households owned their home. 52% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymacreese, Glen, Knockbrien, Scart

Placenames

Ballyneety 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.