Ballyhomock

38 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyhomock, from 22 m² to 213,155 m² (21.32 ha, 52.67 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 Ballyhomock 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.

• 4 Aug 2025Conditional

  a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system, and all associated works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560763

• 4 Aug 2025Conditional

  a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls an onsite waste water treatment and disposal system, and all associated works

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560762

• 17 Jan 2025Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560023

• 25 Oct 2023Conditional

  the change of house design under permitted governing permission 22/377 together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360777

• 20 Sept 2023N/a

  the change of house design under permitted governing permission 22/377 together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360693

• 5 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, 22377

• 5 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, 22376

• 5 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, 22378

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite wastewater treatment and disposal system, and all associated works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 211381

• 5 Oct 2021Conditional

  a dwelling house, entrance, boundary walls, an onsite wastewater treatment and disposal system, and all associated works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 211380

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Cappagh Fen 001429

Recorded monuments

• LI020-061 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop low rise, in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly circular depression (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 1.1m; ext. H 0.5m) which is heavily masked by vegetation overgrowth. Bank is incorporated into field boundary system NW->NNE. Interior is only accessible along S verge, otherwise covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI020-062 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing hill slope. Circular area (diam. 29m) enclosed by stone bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.9m). Bank best preserved SW->NE where dry-stone field wall (H 0.9m) runs along outer edge; bank denuded by cattle at ENE. Interior, under pasture, rises up gently towards centre. Field walls abut external bank face at SW and NE; another which abutted it at W has been removed since it was depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

• Saint James's Catholic Church, church/chapel, 1820–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding gable-fronted Roman Catholic church, built in 1839, comprising three-bay nave, gable-fronted porch to south, chancel to north and sacristy to north-east elevation. Pitched artificial slate roof having metal cross finial. Pitched artificial slate roofs to porch, chancel and sacristy. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with rendered buttresses having limestone caps. Ogee-headed openings having painted concrete sills and stained glass windows. Lancet opening to chancel, west elevation with painted stone block-and-start surround and stained glass window. Triple lancet stained glass window to chancel, north elevation having painted stone block-and-start surround. Square-headed opening to porch, east elevation with timber battened door. Timber scissors truss roof to interior. Marble reredos to altar. Timber gallery to entrance having timber Doric style columns supporting pointed arch arcade. Pair of square-profile limestone piers with double-leaf cast-iron gates and spear-headed cast-iron railings set in limestone plinths, terminating in second pair of limestone piers.

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 Ballyhomock, 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_594 (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 Ballyhomock with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyhomock · Baile Thómaic

Area

905,121 m² (90.51 ha, 223.66 acres)

Civil parish

Nantinan, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Nantinan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

714 people lived in 254 households in the Nantinan electoral division. 93% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballingarrane, Ballyadam, Ballyhibbin, Ballymorrisheen, Callow, Deanstown

Placenames

Ballyhomock 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.