Ballycahane

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycahane, from 69 m² to 133,885 m² (13.39 ha, 33.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballycahane 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.

• 13 May 2026Refused

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, installation of a wastewater treatment system and associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660538

• 21 Dec 2025Conditional

  construction of a single storey dwelling house, domestic garage to include classic car storage, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2561376

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  a new dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and all ancillary site works. Outline Planning Ref. No. 21/490

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461261

• 18 Dec 2024Conditional

  a New dwelling house, new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, garage, entrance and all ancillary site works. Outline Permission reference no. 21/491

  Permission consequent, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2461262

• 13 Dec 2024Conditional

  the refurbishment of an existing two storey dwelling and the construction of a single storey extension to the western side of existing dwelling, the replacement of an existing septic tank and percolation area with a newly constructed Septic tank and percolation area, and all ancillary site works including the removal of selected farm outbuilding

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461250

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

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

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 21490

• 16 Apr 2021Conditional

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

  Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 21491

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house with modifications from the dwelling house design originally granted planning permission (ref. no. 14/1198), construction of stables and drilling of a well

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18210

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 Ballycahane.

Recorded monuments

• LI011-132 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Atop low rise, in gently undulating pasture; terrain dips sharply down to N into valley. Circular area (26.7m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 5.9m) E->NNW; no enclosing element discernible NNW->E. Interior level and under pasture. Farmhouse, converted into farm shed, with new dwelling house standing alongside, lies 30m to S. 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 Ballycahane.

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 Ballycahane, 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.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballycahane · Baile Uí Chatháin

Area

1,033,814 m² (103.38 ha, 255.46 acres)

Civil parish

Kilcornan, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Pallaskenry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,104 people lived in 392 households in the Pallaskenry electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyshonickbane, Cragreagh, Drominaclara, Graigues, Moig East, Moig East Glebe, Summerville

Placenames

Ballycahane 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.