Ballygrennan

32 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygrennan, from 85 m² to 260,280 m² (26.03 ha, 64.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Ballygrennan 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.

• 3 Apr 2024Conditional

  the following; A single storey extension to existing dwelling house; Elevational alterations to the south elevation which includes a new bay window to Bedroom 1, 2 No. double doors to Sitting Room, an additional window to Bedroom 3, a covered decking area with an awning type cover overhead; 3 No. detached garden sheds to the rear of the property; Elevational alterations to the North Elevation which includes a new chimney stack to serve a stove in the Kitchen area, an additional window to the Kitchen area and 2 No. new rooflights; On behalf of Lorraine O’Byrne

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2460282

• 24 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a livestock underpass, effluent holding tank and all associated siteworks

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360447

• 9 Mar 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning File Ref. No. 13/1 : the construction of a dormer dwelling, detached domestic garage, entrance, installation of a waste water treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187008

• 27 Sept 2017Conditional

  the construction of a single storey dwelling house, to be served by mechanical aeration unit & soil polishing filter, vehicular entrance, domestic garage and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17892

• 12 May 2017Conditional

  an extension to the side of the dwelling and build a 1.4 metre high front boundary wall and all associated site works, and B) retention permission for the rear extension and also for the detached shed

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17424

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 Ballygrennan.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-089 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture immediately S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Baunnageeragh. Possible ringfort (LI040-090----) lies to immediate E. Depicted as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 22m) enclosed by a bank on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Not depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map, indicating that the monument was levelled between these map dates. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 June 2021

• LI040-090 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture immediately S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Baunnageeragh. Possible site of levelled ringfort (LI040-089----) lies to immediate W. Depicted as a circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 20m) defined by a scarp on OSi 25-inch map. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 June 2021

• LI040-091 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in grassland with Bulgaden Castle (LI040-) 690m to ENE. Depicted as a circular shaped ringfort, annotated ‘Rathbaun’ on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map, with Trigonometrical Point in centre of monument marking height of 374 ft. OD. High status platform ringfort or possible medieval ringwork which consists of a raised D-shaped area (approx. diam. 21m NE-SW) with straight side (L. 21m) at E enclosed by an earth and stone bank and wide shallow external fosse with possible entrance gap at SE visible on OSi orthoimages. Possible scrub-covered mound in NW quadrant of interior, visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. This mound may have been built by the Ordnance Survey when a Trigonometrical Point was placed inside the monument. The Trig Point is clearly visible in the NW quadrant on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map which also clearly shows the wide shallow external fosse enclosing the monument. The 1897 ed, OS 25-inch map shows a small indentation on the SE side of the monument which could be the result of 19th century quarrying or may be the remains of an original entrance feature. The cartographic evidence would suggest that it is a 19th / 20th century feature rather than the remains of a medieval entrance feature. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letters described the monument as ‘Rathbaun Fort, with a Trig[onometrical]l. Point on it’ (OSL Kilbreedy Major Parish, 866). Westropp (1916-17, 491-2) recorded the following details about this earthwork; ‘Bulgadan was the site of a legendary battle where the High King Fiach Labraind fell before Eochaidh Mumho about "B.C. 419." At least the legend shows a belief in the early fame of the place'. The Down Survey (Map 34) mentions the "castle and a rath" of Bulgideen nan Doe, in.1655. The earthwork, a shapely mote near the Roman Catholic church, is called Rathbaun, which suggests, with the remains, that there was once a wall of the local white limestone round its summit. It is just inside Ballygrennan townland. The mound is 18 feet [5.5m] high to the south-west, 22 feet [6.7m] to the south, and 17 feet [5.2m] to the north. The top is slightly hollow, with a gravel-like mound to the north-west. It measures 66 feet [20m] north and south, 96 feet [29.2m] east and west. There are slight traces of a ring in a low mound 12 feet [3.6m] wide round the edge. A slight hollow, perhaps the trace of a fosse, surrounds the mote, and is 25 feet [7.6m] wide’. In 1919 he suggested that this platform earthwork or low motte was one of fifteen in this area including ‘Rathbane or Bulgadin, Ligadoon, Aghadoon, Atheneasy, four in Knocklong, three in Cush and Ballinvreena at the foot of Slievereagh, Glenbrochain or Ballingarry Down; Rahanna and Raheenamadral “the dog’s little fort”. Their number precludes the idea that they are inauguration mounds, or feudal castles, and scattered across such an extent they clearly belong to no one cemetery, they are most probably residential’ (Westropp 1919, 13). See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 8 October 2020 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 370/14 on 10/05/2003.

• LI040-092 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture immediately 40m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Baunnageeragh. Earthwork (LI040-054----) lies 175m to NE. Depicted as a raised circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 12m) on OSi 25-inch map. Faint trace of circular-shaped cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 June 2021

• LI040-293 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a scarp and fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of enclosure visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/03/2015. On this aerial image a curving ditch is visible 35m to W and there are parallel ditches to the E which could be the remains of a road, a series of other cropmarks can be seen throughout the field. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 19/03/2015. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, church/chapel, 1850–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding rectangular-plan Roman Catholic church, begun c. 1860 and completed in 1886, comprising four-bay nave elevations, two-bay sacristy to west and single-bay porch to east, square-plan three-stage tower to south-east. Pitched slate roof with carved limestone eaves course and brackets to corners. Hipped roof to tower. Tooled limestone cross finials to gables. Snecked limestone walls with tooled quoins. Limestone stringcourse to tower. Quatrefoil recess and date plaque to tower. Ogee-headed paired window openings to nave with tooled limestone surrounds. Ogee-headed window openings to second stage of tower. Pointed arch opening with tracery to first stage of tower. Pointed arch opening to south with carved limestone tracery and stained glass window, chamfered sill and surround and carved hoodmoulding. Pointed arch window openings to sacristy with leaded window. Pointed arched door openings with timber battened doors. Segmental-headed window opening with replacement timber framed window. Carved limestone holy water font on limestone plinth to east side of porch door. Ogee-headed holy water font recess to porch interior. Recent timber altar to interior. Recent timber pews to nave. Carved marble dedication plaques to nave. Coursed limestone walls to grounds with cast-iron railings, terminating in square-profile piers with pointed caps to east. Square-plan piers to south having enlarged plinths and ogee carving to north and south elevation caps, with wrought iron double-leaf gates.

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 Ballygrennan, 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_1026 (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 Ballygrennan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballygrennan · Baile Uí Dhroighneáin

Area

1,773,680 m² (177.37 ha, 438.29 acres)

Civil parish

Kilbreedy Major, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Bulgaden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

332 people lived in 121 households in the Bulgaden electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 24% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardkilmartin, Ballycullane, Baunnageeragh, Bawntard North, Bulgaden Eady, Bulgadenhall, Cottage

Placenames

Ballygrennan 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.