Ballygeagoge

26 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygeagoge, from 139 m² to 272,383 m² (27.24 ha, 67.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballygeagoge 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 Jun 2025N/a

  existing extensions to the sides, rear and front of the existing dwelling house with alterations, all as constructed and all associated site and ancillary works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 25214

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyroe Hill & Mortlestown Hill 002089

Recorded monuments

• LI056-010 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, 85m E of townland boundary with Mortlestown. Three standing stones (LI056-05/058/060----) lie 290m to the NW. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 268) in Ballygeagoge townland. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 November 2021

• LI056-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on the SE facing slope of Mortlestown Hill, 40m W of townland boundary with Ballinlyna Lower. ‘Cahir Mortle’ (LI056-011001-) and ringfort (LI056-011002-) lie 500m to the NW and a stone circle (LI056-014----) lies 264m to the E. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised D-shaped area defined by a scarp from SE-S-W-N-NE with fosse and bank with external fosse from SE-S-W-NW incorporated into a field boundary. A souterrain (LI056-013001-) is shown in W quadrant on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). Monument visible as circular shaped area defined by a tree-lined fosse with bank from SE-S-W-NW, intersected at N by a trackway running roughly E-W on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 November 2021

• LI056-013001 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, on the SE facing slope of Mortlestown Hill, 40m W of townland boundary with Ballinlyna Lower. ‘Cahir Mortle’ (LI056-011001-) and ringfort (LI056-011002-) lie 500m to the NW, a stone circle (LI056-014----) lies 264m to the E. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Souterrain’ on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map, where it is shown as a small circular opening in W quadrant of ringfort (LI056-013----). In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). Souterrain is not depicted on 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. No surface remains of souterrain visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 December 2021

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygeagoge, 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 high, 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 Ballygeagoge.

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

Name

Ballygeagoge · Baile an Iagógaigh

Area

1,461,225 m² (146.12 ha, 361.08 acres)

Civil parish

Particles, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilfinnane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,147 people lived in 474 households in the Kilfinnane electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinanima (D'Arcy), Ballinlyna Lower, Ballyroe Lower, Clovers, Laurencetown North, Laurencetown South, Moneen, Mortlestown

Placenames

Ballygeagoge 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.