Ballynamuddagh

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynamuddagh, from 867 m² to 430,937 m² (43.09 ha, 106.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballynamuddagh 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  (I) Milking parlour building incorporating dairy, plant, storage, Meal Bin, Rain Water storage tank, milk silo, holding yard with crush/ drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel (II) Cubicle shed with slatted tanks and loose area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660348

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 Ballynamuddagh.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-077 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 210) recorded the following details about Trinity Well; ‘A strong spring issuing from the rock, roughly covered with slabs of stone. Devotions are still made occasionally; formerly large crowds came on the Saturday before Trinity Sunday'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-108 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture immediately W a conifer plantation. Enclosure (LI039-067----) lies 160m to N. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped enclosure. Annotated ‘Lisheen’ on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it is shown as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. c. 57m N-S; 58m E-W) enclosed by a bank with external fosse from SE-SW and NW-N. Truncated at E by drainage ditch running NE-SW. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Outline of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimages, shed-like structure visible on N edge of enclosing element. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 6 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 346/24 on 05/01/2003.

Architectural heritage

• Ballynamuddagh House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, comprising porch to front (north) elevation and three-bay single-storey lean-to to rear (south) elevation. Hipped artificial slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins, plinth course and cornice to porch. Square-headed openings to first floor with moulded render surrounds, sills, brackets and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed openings to ground floor having moulded render surrounds, sills, brackets and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Paired round-headed openings to porch with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and shared concrete sill. Segmental-headed opening to porch, east elevation having glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding to south-west with pitched slate roof. Painted rubble stone walls. Square-headed window opening. Square-headed door openings. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to north with double-leaf cast-iron 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 Ballynamuddagh, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_978 (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 Ballynamuddagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballynamuddagh · Baile na mBodach

Area

1,931,534 m² (193.15 ha, 477.29 acres)

Civil parish

Dromin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygubba North, Clogher East, Cloonygarra, Dromin South, Maidstown, Mountfox, Wellfield

Placenames

Ballynamuddagh 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.