Ballycahane Middle

4 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahane Middle, from 1,852 m² to 4,443 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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 Ballycahane Middle 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballycahane Middle in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

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 Ballycahane Middle.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-068 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture on a slight W-facing slope with moderate views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a sub-rectangular shaped area (approx. diam. 38m) defined by a field boundary enclosing a tree-planted interior. No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. The outline of the levelled monument is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS map, possibly the remains of a post-1700 tree plantation. Known locally as the site of a 'fort' (SMR File). See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 July 2020

• LI022-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture on a slight S-facing slope with good views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-074----) located 170m to SE. Surveyed by ASI in 2000 and described as a raised circular-shaped area (diam. 28m) defined by a scarped edge (H 1.5m; Wth 2m) with an external fosse (H 0.3m; base Wth 1.95m) visible from E to NW. Trees have been planted on the scarp while the shallow fosse appears in-filled in many areas. The interior is level. The overgrown enclosing element is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 July 2020

• LI022-074 Designed landscape - tree-ring
  Description

  In low-lying pasture with Ballycahane Cottage 170m to WNW. Enclosure (LI022-069----) 170m to NW. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped area (approx. dims. 30m N-S; 23m E-W) defined by a field boundary enclosing a tree-planted interior. No surface remains visible when visited by the ASI in 2000. The monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. Not depicted as an antiquity on any ed. OS map, possibly the remains of a post-1700 tree plantation associated with Ballycahane Cottage. See attached Google earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 July 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballycahane Middle, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_933 (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 Ballycahane Middle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballycahane Middle · Baile Uí Chatháin Láir

Area

998,232 m² (99.82 ha, 246.67 acres)

Civil parish

Ballycahane, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Kilpeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

561 people lived in 192 households in the Kilpeacon electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycahane Lower, Ballycahane Upper, Ballyregan, Dromloughan North, Fearoe, Killanahan, Maryville, Shanaclogh

Placenames

Ballycahane Middle 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.