Ballyegny

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyegny, from 95 m² to 262,578 m² (26.26 ha, 64.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 9 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 Ballyegny 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 Ballyegny 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 Ballyegny.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-007 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on E-facing slope. Oval area (17.6m N-S; 19.4m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.05m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 3.8m). Bank is denuded by cattle in places and partially overgrown with thorn bushes. Entrance (Wth 3.6m) at ENE, now partially blocked with stones. Fosse most prominent E->N; elsewhere line of fosse marked by marshy ground and stand of irises. Traces of stones along outer edge of fosse, particularly S->W, may indicate remains of outer bank. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently towards centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Site is covered by overgrowth and only arc of enclosing element NW->NE is accessible. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.15m; ext. H 1.75m) is denuded by cattle at N. Outer bank of earth-and-stone (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 1.15m) best preserved SE->NE; at SE and NE it adjoins linear field boundaries, which extend eastwards to join a N-S field boundary. Break in outer bank (Wth c. 6m) at NNW where field boundary, which formerly abutted the bank, has been removed. Fosse wide and flat-bottomed (Wth 5m base). Interior densely overgrown with thorn bushes and nettles. 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 Ballyegny.

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 Ballyegny, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyegny · Baile Éignigh

Area

680,163 m² (68.02 ha, 168.07 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyegny Beg, Ballymakeery, Carrons, Kilcolman, Knockbweeheen, Rathnagore

Placenames

Ballyegny 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.