Ballymacashel

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacashel, from 145 m² to 108,579 m² (10.86 ha, 26.83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballymacashel 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 Apr 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, entrance, installation of on-site treatment plant and percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22423

• 22 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural entrance to access forestry plantation for maintenance and harvesting and associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19157

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 Ballymacashel.

Recorded monuments

• LI012-011 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet, level pasture with limited views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a small roughly circular-shaped earthwork, with barony boundary to W. Monument visited by the ASI in 2001 when it was described as no surface remains visible. Site of levelled monument is obscured by a linear tract of scrub running roughly N-S on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken 2011-2013 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 July 2020

• LI012-125 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In lowlying gently undulating pasture, located to the rear of a line of houses. Two fulacht fia were identified by the owner while ploughing, the second fulacht fia (LI012-126----) lies 195m to SE. Recorded as site number 2 by Celie O'Rahilly in 1989 and described as following; ‘This is located nearer to the road, to the west of the Td. boundary, circa half way down. It still constitutes the highest point in the immediate surroundings; the field here is low and presumably water logged. There is a clearly defined mound measuring 11m N-S x 14m E-W, with the same composition of black soil and burnt stones, the blackest area being in the east to south quadrant. There was no evidence of any pit. There appears to be a slightly thicker soil cover in the immediate vicinity of the mound but this thins out beyond the perimeter where the natural clay is exposed’ (SMR File). Site was inspected in 2001 and no surface remains were visible at time of inspection. Not depicted on the OS maps and no trace of the monument is visible on aerial photographs. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of Upload: 23 June 2020

• LI012-126 Fulacht fia
  Description

  On a slight S-facing slope, in low-lying, gently undulating wet pasture, c. 45m to S of a watercourse. Moderate views from E-S-W and restricted views from W-N-E. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by the landowner as one of two fulacht fia. The second fulacht fia (LI012-125----) lies 200m to NE. Recorded as site number 1 by Celie O' Rahilly during an inspection for NMS in 1989 and described as a mound (approx. dims. 20m N-S x 16m E-W) of blackened soil and angular-shaped heat-shattered stone exposed during ploughing. The concentration of stones was highest in the centre and thinned out toward the perimeter with the blackest area of high charcoal content being in the E quadrant. A roughly circular-shaped depression (diam. 6m) in the centre probably represents the trough and was unaffected by the plough, whereby most of the sod remained in situ (SMR File). Site was re-inspected by the ASI in 2001 and described as a low profile oval-shaped depression (13.8m N-S; 9.6m E-W) enclosed by a broad bank (int. H. 0.2-0.35m; ext. H 0.25m; overall Wth 6.5-10.8m) of charcoal-rich earth; There is no obvious opening. The interior is generally level and probably represents the trough area (3.2m N-S). Monument is visible as a dark green roughly oval-shaped area of differential growth on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or Google Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 8 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1800, having windbreak to front (north) elevation and two-bay single-storey extension to rear (south) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with render copings and rendered and brick chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls having render strip quoins and plinth course. Painted rubble limestone walls to east and west gables. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening having half-glazed timber panelled door. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west with adjoining two-bay single-storey outbuilding to north gable. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs having render copings. Painted rubble limestone walls. Square-headed arrow slit window. Square-headed door openings with timber battened 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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_877 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballymacashel with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballymacashel · Baile Uí Mhaolchaisil

Area

365,878 m² (36.59 ha, 90.41 acres)

Civil parish

Mungret, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Ballycummin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballycummin electoral division: 19,394 people in 6,719 households; 66% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballybrown, Ballyduane, Corbally, Loughanleagh, Tervoe

Placenames

Ballymacashel 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.