Ballynagowan

53 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynagowan, from 84 m² to 81,703 m² (8.17 ha, 20.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Ballynagowan 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.

• 20 Nov 2025Refused

  the construction of a detached single storey building comprising a garage, fuel store and home gym ancillary to the existing dwelling, together with all associated incidental and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561203

• 23 May 2025N/a

  the installation of a proprietary waste water treatment system to service the existing dwelling, together with all associated incidental and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560481

• 12 Jul 2024Conditional

  a two-story extension to the rear of an existing cottage. Permission is also being sought for the completion of the extension and the installation of a waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works and the decommissioning of an existing old septic tank and percolation area

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 24284

• 18 Feb 2022Conditional

  the construction of a wastewater treatment system & polishing filter in lieu of an existing septic tank system and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22187

• 20 Sept 2021Conditional

  house extension to the front, side and rear of the existing house; completion of the front boundary wall; alterations to the existing entrance piers and gate; and all ancillary site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 211311

• 18 Jan 2021N/a

  extension of duration for 15/827

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 217004

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 Ballynagowan.

Recorded monuments

• LI006-067 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland, 100m E of the townland boundary with Carrowkeel. Enclosure (LI006-109---) 100m to E, ringfort (LI006-109----) 200m to the S. Monument identified from examination of 1:10,000 aerial photographs (OS5 2919; Nr 7509) where the outline of an enclosure was identified. This earthwork is not indicated on the 1840 OS 6-inch map or subsequent OS maps. The outline of a circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 30m) defined by a fosse with possible old watercourse at NE is clearly visible on Global Earth orthoimages taken 19/11/2019 and 23/05/2018. Traces of a second outer ditch 13m to SE of inner ditch is visible on this image . See attached Google Earth images taken 19/11/2019 and 23/05/2018 Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 June 2020

• LI006-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  A circular enclosure, diam. c. 25m, identified on a LSRR lidar image by Paul O'Keeffe, NRA Assistant Archaeologist, and reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland on 8 March 2013. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 March 2013.

• LI006-110 Enclosure
  Description

  A possible enclosure identified on a LSRR lidar image by Paul O'Keeffe, NRA Assistant Archaeologist, and reported to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland on 8 March 2013. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 15 March 2013.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballynagowan.

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

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 low, low (inferred).

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1054 (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 Ballynagowan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballynagowan · Bealach an Ghamhna

Area

393,590 m² (39.36 ha, 97.26 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Carrowkeel, Clyduff West, Garraun, Garraunykee, Knockbrack West, Mountshannon, Raheen, Richhill, Rivers

Placenames

Ballynagowan 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.