Ballybrood

37 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballybrood, from 128 m² to 356,660 m² (35.67 ha, 88.13 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballybrood 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.

• 27 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural building for the housing of cattle and a slatted slurry storage tank, including all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460963

• 20 Feb 2023Conditional

  the construction of a poultry house, concrete apron and feed silos and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360087

• 16 Feb 2023N/a

  the construction of a poultry house, concrete apron and feed silos and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360070

• 30 Jan 2019Conditional

  the demolition of existing dwelling house including all ancillary site works. This dwelling house is in the vicinity of protected buildings

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1970

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 Ballybrood.

Recorded monuments

• LI023-053001 Church
  Description

  Only the SE angle of the medieval church of Ballybrood is visible in in S quadrant of graveyard (LI023-053001) and S of 19th century C. of I. church ruins. Rectangular structure (3.2m N-S; 5m E-W) of which part of E gable (ext. L 5.6m; T 1.1m; H c. 3.5m) and two fragments of S wall, one at E end (L 2m; H c. 3m) and one at W end (H 1.3m), are all that now stand. These are completely encased by ivy. Fabric of wall is of mortared limestone with a rubble core. W and N walls reduced to sod-covered mounds (Wth c. 0.5m; H c. 0.55m). A window ope in E-wall is covered by ivy; the embrasure (Wth 1m; D 0.9m; H 2.15m) has splayed ingoings. Interior generally level and grass covered. Level rectangular area (6.4m N-S; 8m E-W) to immediate W of church contains numerous uninscribed gravemarkers. Remains of parish church of Ballybrood that was already reduced to present state in 1840 (Westropp 1904-5, 443). Westropp (ibid.) recorded the following details about Ballybrood; 'Perhaps the chapel of Bourewode, in Wethney, 1291; Ballybrood parish, 1657 (D.S. (A), 20 ; and Petty, 66), granted to J. Maunsell, 1667 (Act Sett.). Fabric - A small portion of the east end stood in 1840. The I. C. church was built, 1807; burned by Rockites, 1822; and rebuilt, 1823. Mr. E. B. Fennessy, in a letter to Mr. J. Grene Barry, says that the old church was an oblong heap, like that at Milltown' Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 04 January 2019

• LI023-053002 Graveyard
  Description

  In pasture, on a SW-facing slope, on W side of public road. Square area (39m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a mortared limestone wall (H c. 1.4m); breach (Wth c. 1.2m) near S end of W wall. Stile mid-way along E-wall and gateway (Wth 2.7m) at N-end of same. Ruin of church (LI023-053001-) off-centre to S; low, uninscribed gravemarkers to immediate E and S. Scarped edge (max. Wth 2.75m; H 1.25m) defines S-side of graveyard with interior higher than perimeter. Sunken pathway (basal Wth 2.75m; long-axis c. E-W) traverses northern half of interior from gated entrance. No standing remains of C of I church, built in 1807, which formerly stood in N side of yard (Westropp 1904-5, 443). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

• LI023-055 Religious house - unclassified
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. No visible surface trace of monument marked on 1928 OS 6-inch map as 'Friary (site of)'; nothing is shown here on the 1840 OS map. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 276) 'possibly a place of refuge in the seventeenth century.' Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

• LI023-056 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on a SE-facing slope. Oval area (24m NE-SW; c. 19m NW-SE) defined by scarped edge (Wth 3m; H 1.3m; possible entrance, Wth 5m, at ESE), with external fosse (Wth 7.25m; D 0.85m) W-SSE (obscured by overgrowth SSE-W), and counterscarp bank (Wth 8.65m; int. H 0.85m; ext. H 0.3m) W-SSE. Latter has post and wire fence on top. Monument becoming overgrown by scrub and much of interior is now inaccessible. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 November 2013

• LI023-186 Earthwork
  Description

  On low-lying improved, wet pasture, in forestry cut by land drains and watercourses. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as an oval-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 186: AP 4/3688). Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018, where it is enclosed by a broad U-shaped forestry exclusion zone. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018 and Bruff aerial survey image labelled Bruff 186. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 September 2020

• LI023-187 Enclosure
  Description

  Identified from an aerial photograph (Bruff Survey: Map 23, Bruff 189: AP 4/3687) and described by Doody (2008, 132) as an 'oval ditched enclosure, c. 45m N-S x 30m E-W, with possibel internal bank'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 6 November 2013

• LI023-189 Earthwork
  Description

  On low-lying improved, wet pasture, in forestry cut by land drains and watercourses. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Identified as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 191: AP 4/3685). Monument is visible as a faint roughly circular-shaped cropmark (diam. 48m) on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/05/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 25/05/2017 and Bruff aerial survey image. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 2 September 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballybrood, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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.

• Ballybrood, Caherconlish5 sales

Name

Ballybrood · Baile Bhrúid

Area

1,446,024 m² (144.6 ha, 357.32 acres)

Civil parish

Ballybrood, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Kilmurry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

911 people lived in 304 households in the Kilmurry electoral division. 96% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhobin, Baskethill, Caherline, Killeagh, Mountminnett, Rockfarm, Tonteere

Placenames

Ballybrood 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.