Ballyculhane

69 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyculhane, from 117 m² to 174,842 m² (17.48 ha, 43.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ballyculhane 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.

• 29 Aug 2025Conditional

  change to site boundary to site subject to planning permission reference 25/106

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25293

• 9 Apr 2025Conditional

  a dwelling house with attached carport, garage and plantroom, new entrance gates, onsite treatment system and polishing filter, reconstruction and adjustment of existing stone roadside boundary wall and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25106

• 31 Jul 2024N/a

  a proposed dwelling house with attached carport, garage and plantroom, new entrance gates, onsite treatment system and polishing filter, reconstruction and adjustment of existing stone roadside boundary wall and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24313

• 16 Feb 2021Refused

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, vehicular entrance, the installation of a waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 21169

• 16 Sept 2019Conditional

  the construction of a silage base, walls and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19924

• 2 Mar 2017Conditional

  a dwelling house entrance on site waste water treatment and disposal system all associated works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17192

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
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Dromore & Bleach Loughs 001030

Recorded monuments

• LI012-010001 Earthwork
  Description

  Ovoid shaped hachured earthwork marked on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map immediately west of Ballyculhane Castle (LI012-010002-). This earthwork mat be the remains of a possible pond feature depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Tree-covered area visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthophoto taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 1 February 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

• LI012-010002 Castle - unclassified
  Description

  Ballyculhane (Baile Uí Chathláin/the town of Ó Cathláin) Castle in the parish of Kildimo was described in 1840 as follows; 'The ruins of this castle stand in a rectangular space of about 132 ft. [40m] long and 120 ft. [36.5m] broad, inclosed by a wall of about 30 ft. [9.1m] high. Fragments of the castle walls are standing, and 3 chimneys remain, which ore about 50 ft. [15.24m] high. At each angle of the courtyard and outside stands a square tower, 2 stories high end arched overhead. The apartments in the towers are about 7ft. [2.13m] square' (OSNB Kildimo Parish, 922). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Major General Patrick Purcell, an Irish Papist was the owner of the lands of Ballyculhane which contained 'a Castle, a Bawne three greate houses and ten Cottages one Mill seate [LI012-165----], one Salmon weare [LI012-166-----] in repayre besides other weare seates, oweing a red rose p[er] Ann[um] to the Mannor house of Aghdare' (Simington 1938, 346). Westropp (1906-7, 160-1) recorded the following details about Ballyculhane; 'Sir Hugh Purcell held Moycro (Croagh), Ballycathelan and Clanech (Justic. R., Cal., p. 246). 1518 Gerald, Earl of Kildare, held Ballycathelan in Kyenry, Co. Lim., and the advowson of the free chapel of Russell (Rental). 1581 Pelham reported that Brian Duff O'Brien, of Carrigogunnell, got aid from Adare in Feb., 1581, and raided Kenry, taking 200 cows; Desmond and his men pursued, but could not recover the cattle, and lost "a son of old John of Desmond" (Carew ii., p. 225). The Grarrison of Adare sent soldiers to raid Kenry; but they were defeated and nearly exterminated by David oge Purcell, of Baile ui Chathlain, near his C[astle]. The Captain of Adare got aid from Kilmallock, and stormed Baile ui Chathlain C[astle], slaying 150 women and children (A.F.M.). 1583 Peirce Purcell held Ballycullen C[astle]. in Kyldyma (Des. R., 33b). 1612 Edm. Purcell, of Croagh, was granted Bally calhane C[astle]. (Pat. R.). 1640 Held by Gen. Patrick Purcell, as heir of his son James, under the Earl of Kildare, as part of Kildare Manor (Inq. Chan., 8, 241). 1657 The C[astle]. bawn, three great houses, a mill seat and weirs, late of Major P. Purcell, deceased (C.S., xxvi., p. 7 ; D.S.B., 16 ; B.D., 26). Fabric - The Down Survey and Trustee Map (35) show it as a large court with towers at the angles, a house inside, and a neat garden surrounded by rows of trees. There is a view in the "Limerick Field Club Journal," vol. i. The C[astle]. consists of a court 195 feet [59.4m] across, the walls being 30 feet [9.1m] high. It had towers at the angles, and an oblong "Castle" stood detached to the north. The fosse could be flooded from the Maigue. The "Estate Book" of 1703 describes it as a large castle, strong walled, with a good garden and orchard, and a stable'. Ballyculhane Castle described by Salter (2004, 63) as; 'An ivy-mantled wall about 3m thick and 6m high surrounds a bawn 45m long by 40m wide. There are square corner towers containing tiny vaulted rooms and spiral staircases. On the south and SW are windows and fireplaces of former two storey ranges of apartments. Buildings on the NW side are comparatively modern. There is said to have once been a 9m wide wet moat fed from the River Maigue. The castle belonged to the Purcells until the 1650s. After it was stormed by the English in 1581 some 150 women and children were put to death'. See attached black and white photograph taken from Journal of the Limerick Field Club, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1897. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 November 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1790–1810 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey lobby entry thatched house, built c. 1800, having three-bay single-storey extension to rear (south) elevation. Pitched thatched roof with rendered chimneystack. Flat roof to extension. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening with replacement half-glazed door and sidelights. Single-bay single-storey outbuilding to west having pitched slate and corrugated-iron roof. Render over rubble limestone walls. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north with double-leaf timber gates and rendered boundary walls.

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 Ballyculhane, 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 low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_814 (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 Ballyculhane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyculhane · Baile Uí Chathláin

Area

1,548,269 m² (154.83 ha, 382.59 acres)

Civil parish

Kildimo, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Ballynacarriga, the unit of the census

Census 2022

947 people lived in 310 households in the Ballynacarriga electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardlahan, Ballyvareen, Carheeny, Coolbeg, Faha

Placenames

Ballyculhane 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.