Ballinstona South

12 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinstona South, from 263 m² to 209,992 m² (21 ha, 51.89 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 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 Ballinstona South 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.

• 1 Mar 2021Conditional

  revisions to previously granted planning permission( ref. no. 19/765) for an agricultural shed with a slatted tank. Revisions to include elevational changes and relocation of the shed on the site and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21238

• 2 Aug 2019Conditional

  construction of an agricultural shed with slatted tank, widening of the existing agricultural entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19765

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 Ballinstona South.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, 75m W of townland boundary with Ballynamona, 100m NW of townland boundary with Baunageeragh and 70m N of townland boundary with Cottage. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised oval shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. c. 28m) defined by a scarp with outer fosse from SE-S-W-N-NE. Monument described by O’Kelly (1944, 52) as a ‘Type C Earthwork’ consisting of; ‘A high circular mound surrounded by a fosse. The monument has been partially dug away on the E side and here the edge of the mound and fosse are gone. The tip of the mound seems to have been flat originally but it now slopes to the E. The overall diameter is 160’ [48.7m] and the height of the mound is 12’ [3.6m].’ The monument is visible as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Visible as a raised area enclosed by a bank with broken out gap at E on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 11 May 2021

• LI040-274 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In pasture,140m S of townland boundary with Ballinstona North, a possible ditch-barrow (LI040-275----) lies 115m to the SE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 142, AP 5/2115) as a circular cropmark of a possible barrow. Trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 16/03/2016. See attached Bruff photograph labelled 142 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 July 2021

• LI040-275 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 145m SW of townland boundary with Ballinstona North, two possible ditch-barrows (LI040-274/294----) lie 115m to the NW and 116m to the NE respectively. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 143, AP 5/2115) as a circular cropmark of a possible barrow. Trace of monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 5m) intersected at E by a linear cropmark running NE-SW on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Bruff photograph labelled 143 and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 July 2021

• LI040-294 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  Situated on reclaimed poorly drained pasture. Ring-barrow (LI040-275----) 116m to SW. Cropmark of possible ditch-barrow consisting of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 12m) defined by a fosse that is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 16/03/2016. Outline of possible ditch-barrow visible on OSi orthophoto taken 2005-12 and faint cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 16/03/2016 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 5 August 2020

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballinstona South.

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 Ballinstona South, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1025 (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 Ballinstona South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballinstona South · Baile an Stónaigh Theas

Area

571,637 m² (57.16 ha, 141.25 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinstona North, Ballyania, Ballybeg, Ballynamona, Baunnageeragh, Cottage

Placenames

Ballinstona South 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.