Ballyegny Beg
Ballyegny Beg is a townland in the civil parish of Clonagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Éignigh Beag.
Parcel 1645347
- Area
- 24,603 m² (2.46 ha, 6.08 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyegny Beg
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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 high, moderately low, low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 46.7 ha
- 115 acres
- Land parcels
- 19
- registered freehold, median 16,265 m² (1.63 ha, 4.02 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyegny Beg, from 920 m² to 94,470 m² (9.45 ha, 23.34 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyegny Beg 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
3 May 2019Conditional
construction of a dwelling house, entrance, installation of a septic tank and percolation area, and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19435
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyegny Beg.
Recorded monuments
- LI028-020 Castle - tower house
Description
According to Lewis (1837 Vol. 2, 67) there are 'the remains of Castle Egney, consisting only of one slender square tower'. Westropp recorded the following details about the castle at Ballyegny Beg; '1452 Ballyeghn', a Desmond property (Rental). 1583 Peter Wall held Ballyegnybegg in Farrensesseragh, or Ballyegna; he was executed for joining Desmond in rebellion (Des. R., 69b; Peyton, 251; Inq. Exch., 11). 1587 It was granted to Ol[iver]. Stephenson as the late estate of Ulick Wall, "The Falltach" (Fi. 5242). 1598 F. Trenchard held Ballyeaghybegg, and Ballyeghane C[astle]. on his death (Inq. Chan., 5a., 35b). 1612 Sir E. Berkeley held it (Vis. Reg., p. 368). 1655 Balleogun, held by J. Hurley (B.D., 22r, Hurllie, of Ballioginn, a small C[astle]. (C.S., p. 77). 1665 Granted to Duke of York. Fabric - A low tower, fairly perfect, 25 feet [8m] high, with spiral stair to top (O.S.L., 9, p. 166)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 3 December 2020
- LI028-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture, on W-facing slope and immediately W of public road. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m), has been levelled. Only indication of site is slight hollow in field of grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-024 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse. Inner bank (ext. H 3.3m) is completely covered by dense overgrowth as is all of interior. Fosse (Wth 2.6m) is surrounded by low outer bank (int. H 1.05m; ext. H 0.35m). Field boundary abuts site at NNE. A shallow linear depression (L 16m E-W) abuts outer bank at NNW. An active quarry is located 20m to W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-032 Mound
Description
In pasture, at the base of a S-facing slope, on the N side of a stream. The monument, which is depicted as a circular mound (diam. c. 15m) on the 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of the mound was evident when the site was inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI028-033 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), has been levelled and surrounding field boundaries removed. However, short arc of scarped edge (H 0.3m; Wth 1.4m) is evident approximately on line of edge of enclosure at NE. 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 Ballyegny Beg.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyegny Beg, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyegny Beg.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyegny Beg with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyegny Beg · Baile Éignigh Beag
- Area
- 466,623 m² (46.66 ha, 115.31 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dunmoylan East, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 523 people lived in 180 households in the Dunmoylan East electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyegny, Ballyegny More, Ballymakeery, Ballyneety, Lisgordan, Rathgoonan, Rathnagore
- Placenames
- Ballyegny Beg 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.