Ballymackesy

34 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymackesy, from 301 m² to 269,142 m² (26.91 ha, 66.51 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 19 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
  Newcastle West Local Area Plan 2023-2029, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a covered training area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560881

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  construction of a domestic garage/shed, plus all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 25127

• 13 Feb 2025Conditional

  the erection of 6 no. 15m high flood lights to perimeter the existing playing pitch and the erection of 12m high ball stop net at either end of the playing pitch and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2534

• 17 Jan 2025N/a

  the erection of 6 no. 15m high flood lights to perimeter the existing playing pitch and the erection of 12m high ball stop net at either end of the playing pitch and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2513

• 7 Aug 2019Conditional

  existing cottage and extension to the cottage, domestic garage, site layout and site boundaries as constructed and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19775

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 Ballymackesy.

Recorded monuments

• LI036-065 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Sub-circular area (22.6m N-S; 26.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.85m; Wth 1.4m), with external fosse (D 0.45m; Wth 2.6m) NE->W. A public road skirts outside edge of fosse W->NW. Deserted house and garden lies immediately to SSW. Interior level, dry and covered by overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-066 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 28m) defined by scarped edge (H c. 0.5m), with slight trace of external fosse (D 0.1m) SSE->NNE. Drain has been cut along base of scarped edge NNE->SSE where field boundary skirts enclosure. Interior level and covered by dense overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-069 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight SW-facing slope. Circular area (32.9m N-S; 30.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 0.35m; Wth 1.7m). Scarped edge most prominent E->WNW. Interior, under rough pasture, slopes slightly down to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-071 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been truncated on E and S sides by field boundaries. However, enclosing element survives SW->ENE as an earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.4m) SW->ENE and defined by scarped edge SSE->SW. Entrance (Wth 2.6m) through bank at N. South side edge of site now defined by field drain. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth (48.4mm from bank to field boundary E-W; 36.3m from bank to drain N-S). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-193 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In damp pasture, on slight SW-facing slope. Circular area (18.6m E-W; 17.35m N-S) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 2.95m). Entire site recently cleared of bushes and loose stones; surface now much churned up by farm machinery and also poached by cattle. Interior slopes down to SW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-218 Enclosure
  Description

  In grassland, with ringfort (LI036-066----) 1050 to SSE. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 26m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 24/06/2018. Could be the remains of a levelled ringfort. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Joe O'Connor Date of upload: 4 March 2021

Architectural heritage

• Ballymackesy Cottage, farm house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse, built c. 1860, having single-storey porch to front (east). Single-bay single-storey with dormer attic addition to rear (west) with lean-to extension and single-bay single-storey porch surmounted by later first-floor extension. Hipped slate roof having red brick chimneystacks, timber clad eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Pitched slate roof to rear addition with red brick chimneystack. Slate-lean to roof to extension. Flat roof to porch with concealed rainwater goods behind rendered parapet with moulded stringcourse, cornice and coping. Roughcast rendered walls with plinth to front elevation, having line-and-ruled rendered walls to rear first floor extension, rendered walls with plinth to front porch. Recessed bays to front and side (north, south) elevations of porch having moulded reveals above recessed rusticated render panels to front and side (north) elevations. Cast-iron vent pipe to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings having tooled limestone sills and two-over-two pane timer sliding sash windows. Double and triple light arrangements to front porch, having rendered mullions, sills, moulded reveals and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows surmounted by single-pane overlights. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to gable of rear addition. Blocked square-headed window openings to first floor extension to rear. Square-headed door openings throughout, having tooled stone stepped approach, moulded rendered reveals to side (south) elevation of front porch, now blocked. Exposed rubbed red brick voussoirs to side (south) elevation of rear porch having blocked glazed timber door. Enclosed cobbled farmyard to south-west enclosed by various single and two-storey barn and stable blocks. Single-storey carriage house to west with brick chimneystack and integral carriage arch with rubbed brick voussoirs. Square-profile tooled limestone gate piers to north at site of original main entrance having chamfered corners and carved capping supporting single-leaf wrought-iron gate.

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 Ballymackesy, 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 low.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_440 (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 Ballymackesy with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballymackesy · Baile Uí Mhacasa

Area

734,847 m² (73.48 ha, 181.58 acres)

Civil parish

Monagay, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Newcastle Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,491 people lived in 875 households in the Newcastle Rural electoral division. 68% of households owned their home. 53% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinvallig, Ballycluvane, Gortyknaveen, Killeline, Knockane, Treanboy

Placenames

Ballymackesy 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.