Balline

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balline, from 827 m² to 124,681 m² (12.47 ha, 30.81 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Balline 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 Balline 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 Balline.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-062 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 30m W of the townland boundary with Gormanstown (Phillips). Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a rectangular-shaped enclosure on examination Bord Gáis Éireann aerial photographs taken 03/11/1984. Outline of monument is visible as a rectangular-shaped area (dims. 42m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a fosse from W to N only and transected at E by a road and at S by post-1700 field boundary on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of possible rectangular-shaped earthwork is visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 14/09/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 25 May 2021

• LI040-159 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 25m E of road that forms townland boundary with Gormanstown. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified as a circular cropmark during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 63) taken 03/11/1984 on Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Possible linear cropmark of trackway running roughly NE-SW visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 June 2021

• LI040-231 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 175m E of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Bulgaden. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a possible barrow by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 107; AP 5/2117). Visible as a circular cropmark on OSi orthophotos taken between 2005-2012. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 28 June 2021

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached seven-bay single-storey house, built c. 1830, comprising five-bay single-storey main house with two-bay block to west and two-bay return. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Rendered walls with render quoins and cast-iron vents to plinth. Projecting bays to main house, with moulded render cornices. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills having six-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired window openings to south-elevation of main building. Some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and replacement uPVC window to rear and west elevations. Elliptical-headed door opening in projecting bay, having timber panelled door with single-pane overlight and rectangular side-lights with timber panelled risers. Square-headed opening with timber battened door to rear with rectangular overlight. Paved rectangular yard and outbuildings to rear. Western range comprising two-bay single-storey outbuilding. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with pointed timber finial to north gable apex. Roughcast rendered walls, some exposed coursed limestone rubble walls. Square-headed window openings with two-over-two pane timber framed window and replacement metal framed window. Square-headed door opening with timber door frame. North range comprising four-bay one-and-a-half-storey detached building. Pitched slate roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings. Square-headed loop window openings to upper floor, east elevation. Square-headed door opening with timber battened half-doors. Square-headed door openings with corrugated iron doors. Blocked segmental arched opening to east elevation, with red brick voussoirs. Eastern range comprising two-bay one-and-a-half-storey building. Pitched corrugated-iron roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with timber battened window. Square-headed door opening with timber battened doors. Door to west elevation approached by flight of rendered steps with recent metal hand rail. Yard surrounded by painted coursed rubble walls terminating in square-profile piers with pointed caps supporting double-leaf wrought iron gates. Curved sweep entrance to site with rendered walls having moulded render copings terminating in square-profile piers with concave pointed caps supporting double-leaf wrought-iron gates.

• House, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1820, comprising four-bay main house with single-bay addition to north. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls with smooth rendered plinth course. Square-headed window openings with painted render sills and replacement timber framed awning windows. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door.

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 Balline, 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 low.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Balline · Baile Fhaghain

Area

861,397 m² (86.14 ha, 212.86 acres)

Civil parish

Athneasy, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Uregare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinscaula, Bulgaden, Bulgaden Eady, Gormanstown (Grady), Gormanstown (Phillips), Magherareagh

Placenames

Balline 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.