Ballygrennan

500 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygrennan, from 2 m² to 335,894 m² (33.59 ha, 83 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 444 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 25 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 10 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• C2.1Enterprise and Employment (Industrial, enterprise, employment)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M1Mixed Use (Mixed Use, general development, opportunity/proposal site)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• M3Local Centre (District, neighbourhood centre)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• R1New Residential (New/proposed residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N3.3Utilities (Mixed/general gas and electricity uses)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• N1.1Infrastructure Safeguard (Road)
  Not Applicable, Clare · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 25 Jun 2019Conditional

  to construct 1) Club House incorporating changing rooms and meeting room with Klargester biodisc sewage treatment plant and Ash Environmental Technologies with Wastewater Drip Distribution System in playing area; 2) Playing pitch with associated drainage works, alterations to the site levels; 3) A 30m x 45m Astroturf training pitch; 4) Car Parking to support playing pitches, site boundary fencing, provision of 2 no. vehicle entrances and all associated site works

  Permission · Clare County Council, 19505

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Knockalisheen Marsh 002001

Recorded monuments

• LI005-010 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Ballygrennan Castle or Castle Park described by Westropp (1906-7, 81) as following; '1610 David McCanney owned the C[astle]. of Parck (Inq. Chan., Car. I., 29). 1631 Pardon to Simon Fanning for alienation of the C[astle]. of Park in the County of the City (Pat R.). 1655 Ballygrenane C[astle]. (Petty 63)'. Castle depicted as a tower house type structure on the Down Survey map of the North Liberties in Limerick (Hib. Reg.). Castle Park (NIAH Reg. No. 21900502) described in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books for St. Munchins parish as following; 'The former name of this edifice was Castlepark, and it was built and occupied in 1620 by the O'Brien's of Thomond. In 1782 it became the property of the Ormsbys under the name of Blackland Castle, and lastly, in 1833, it became the property of Christopher Delmege Esq. who improved and rebuilt the greater portion of it. it is a splendid edifice, 4 story high, overlooking the Shannon' (OSNB Parish of St. Munchin, 1542). Castle Park house described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [NIAH] as following; 'Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1750, comprising floating pediment to front (south) elevation, full-height canted bay to east elevation having extension adjoining remodelled tower house to east with crenellated curtain wall. Two-bay four-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Now in disuse. This substantial house, attributed to Francis Bindon, displays characteristic features of his work such as the lunette resting on the Venetian window's keystone. Built in different phases, the house retains its eighteenth-century façade with earlier fabric to the rear elevation. Castle Park is distinguished by its finely carved limestone dressings, which are indicative of the skill of eighteenth-century craftsmen. Battlements were added in the nineteenth century, when the castle style of architecture was in vogue'(www.buildingsofireland.ie). See attached 1657 Down Survey barony map of the North Liberties showing Ballygrennan Castle. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 08 January 2020

• LI005-039 Settlement cluster
  Description

  On low-lying pasture, in the angle of Cratloe Road and Galtee Avenue. Site of Castle Park castle (LI005-010----) lies c. 1km to NE. Shown as a cluster of dwellings either side of the road out of Limerick City on the Down Survey barony map of the North Liberties (Hib. Reg.). The name Red Gate is depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map, c. 65m to NW and may be of some significance (O’ Rahilly 1998). A pit and a burnt spread were uncovered from this area during archaeological monitoring (License No. 98E0321) for a development in 1998 (ibid). Area is now occupied by Clonile and Shanrath housing estates. Archaeological test trenching (License No. 04E0851) and monitoring of a site directly on the opposite side of the Cratloe Road, proved negative for archaeology (Brewer February 2004; Dunne July 2004). See attached Google Earth orthoimage 02/07/2018 and Down Survey barony map showing cluster of dwellings. Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Castle Park, country house, 1740–1760 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey country house, built c. 1750, comprising floating pediment to front (south) elevation, full-height canted bay to east elevation having extension adjoining remodelled tower house to east with crenellated curtain wall. Two-bay four-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Now in disuse. Rendered parapet with limestone eaves course, rendered chimneystacks and remains of limestone crenellations to roofline. Rendered walls having limestone quoins, plinth course and cornice. Square-headed window openings with limestone sills, some with remains of timber sliding sash windows. Venetian window to first floor having limestone surround, keystone to central opening and limestone sill. Lunette to pediment with limestone surround, keystone and sill. Square-headed opening with carved limestone surround comprising pilasters, pediment and scrolled consoles over spoked fanlight over timber panelled double-leaf doors with flanking square-headed sidelights having limestone surrounds. Square-plan remodelled tower house to east having rendered walls with limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills. Pair of square-profile limestone piers with sweeping rendered walls having crenellated limestone copings and plinth courses.

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 20 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. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_927 (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

1,255,255 m² (125.53 ha, 310.18 acres)

Civil parish

St. Munchin's, and its townlands

Barony

North Liberties

Electoral division

Limerick North Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

7,364 people lived in 2,788 households in the Limerick North Rural electoral division. 63% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynanty More, Clonconane, Gortgarraun (Co. Clare), Knockalisheen (Co. Clare), Monabraher, Moylish, Shannabooly

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.