Ballylin

15 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylin, from 715 m² to 478,434 m² (47.84 ha, 118.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 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 Ballylin 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.

• 30 Oct 2024Refused

  The construction of an asphalt plant and associated works within the existing permitted quarry extraction area (permitted under Planning Reference No: 05/7023 and An Board Pleanála Reference No. 13.QC.2096), including: • 1 no. Asphalt plant • 1 no. electrical substation • 1 no. standby generator • 1 no. Storage shed (1500 sqm gross floor space) and 8 no. Storage bays • 1 no. gas storage unit, and compound • 1 no. settlement tank • Retaining wall within an application area of 3.4 hectares. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) accompanies the planning application.

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461079

• 19 Nov 2021Conditional

  dwelling house, site entrance, wastewater treatment system and associated site works and services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211602

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 Ballylin.

Recorded monuments

• LI019-039 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In pasture, on W-facing slope. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on OS 6-inch map, is no longer evident. Westropp (1916-17, 32) described it as 'a mere overgrown ring of small filling, 12 feet to 15 feet thick and a few feet high, with only a few facing blocks in situ, and early house enclosures inside.' Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-050 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On gentle SW-facing slope, In area of outcropping limestone within active quarry complex; Blast-face is c. 100m to W. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is no longer evident in area now covered with heaps of limestone rubble. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In dense scrubland. Monument, depicted as circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, is now completely covered by dense overgrowth of briar and furze. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-052 Enclosure
  Description

  In rough pasture, on SE-facing slope of limestone crag. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by dry-stone wall (H 1.6m). Enclosure abutted at SSE, N and NE by similar dry-stone walls which are part of surrounding field boundary system. Interior inaccessible due to dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI019-203 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Atop low hill, in area of waste-ground covered by scrub vegetation. Roughly circular area (31m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (Wth 2.3m) and external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.8m). Inner bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.6m) best preserved at NNW. Outer bank (ext. H 1.1m) has a berm (max. Wth 8m) separating it's inner face (H 0.2m) from external edge of intervening fosse SE->NE. All enclosing elements, except the inner bank, are truncated by linear dry-stone field wall (N-S axis) ENE->ESE. A low earth-and-stone field boundary (max. ext. H 0.55m) skirts around outer edge of external fosse SE->NNE, and is abutted at NNE by a dry-stone wall which replaces bank for a short distance before veering off to NE. Causeway entrance (Wth 2.45m) at NW. Interior level and partially covered by overgrowth. A small mound (H c. 0.35m) of earth and stone (2m NE-SW; 1.3m NW-SE) lies immediately NE of centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballylin, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

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

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 Ballylin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballylin · Baile Uí Fhloinn

Area

1,240,959 m² (124.1 ha, 306.65 acres)

Civil parish

Kilmoylan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Lismakeery, the unit of the census

Census 2022

479 people lived in 167 households in the Lismakeery electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowclogh, Cooltomin, Craggs, Creeves, Graigoor, Kilbradran, Liffane, Lissatotan, Lissatotan, Mullagh

Placenames

Ballylin 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.