Ballymartin

81 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymartin, from 219 m² to 139,816 m² (13.98 ha, 34.55 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Ballymartin 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.

• 28 Nov 2024Conditional

  a storey and a half type dwelling house with a detached domestic garage, a secondary wastewater treatment system and soil polishing filter, new vehicular access, site boundaries and landscaping along with connections to adjacent utilities and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2461178

• 11 Dec 2023Refused

  a dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 23590

• 18 Oct 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and soil polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211455

• 26 Mar 2018Conditional

  a slatted unit with an underground slurry storage tank for housing livestock on the farm

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18278

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

Recorded monuments

• LI003-009 Dam
  Description

  In pasture, at SE edge of estuary inlet of River Shannon. Monument, depicted as trapezoidal enclosure (c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Flood bank skirts edge of inlet to N; enclosure abutted this at NW corner and may therefore have been part of flood-bank system. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI003-010 Dam
  Description

  In wooded area, at foot of NNW facing slope, in flood plain of River Shannon. Linear ditch (Wth. 1.55m) defined by inner scarp-edge (H 3.05m) along S side and by earthen field bank (H 2m) along N edge. Ditch, extending on NE-SW axis for c. 35m, is heavily clogged with organic debris. Bank is masked by vegetation cover. This probably a drainage feature associated with the nearby river. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI003-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, atop hill with panoramic views. Sub-circular area (37.5m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with intervening (Wth 1.35m) and external fosse. Inner bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.9m), best preserved ENE->SW, becomes scarp-like SW->NW (H 1.05m; Wth 5.5m). Outer bank (int. H 1.1m), best preserved ENE->SW where incorporated into field boundary, much denuded NW->ENE (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.55m). Intervening fosse heavily masked by overgrowth ENE->SW. Outer fosse (D 0.05m; Wth 1.3m) barely perceptible NW->ENE, not evident elsewhere. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes down gently to NW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI003-012 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, in low-lying marshy area. Circular area (31m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by scarped edge, with two concentric outer earthen banks, with two intervening and an external fosse. Scarp (H 0.75m; Wth 3.9m) best preserved along S arc. Bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 1.1m), heavily masked by overgrowth at NE, is much denuded at NW. Break (Wth 4m) in outer bank (int. H 1.15m; ext. h 1.25m) at NW, matched by causeway across middle fosse and shallowing of inner fosse. Outer bank and fosse do not survive NW->NNE where field boundary cuts through middle fosse and skirts around inner bank. Inner fosse (Wth1.1m) best preserved at S. Middle (Wth 2.65m) and outer (Wth 2.2m) fosses waterlogged, with middle fosse widening at W (Wth 4m). Interior, under pasture, dips down towards 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 Ballymartin.

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 Ballymartin, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymartin · Baile Mháirtín

Area

1,508,233 m² (150.82 ha, 372.69 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Castletown, Drommoher, Moig East Glebe, Ringmoylan, Summerville

Placenames

Ballymartin 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.