Ballynacourty

60 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballynacourty, from 124 m² to 296,689 m² (29.67 ha, 73.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 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 Ballynacourty 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.

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  a stand-alone modular building for use as a gym and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660318

• 16 Apr 2024Conditional

  a change of use from a stone barn to a dwelling house and permission for the completion of works to include the installation of a new wastewater treatment system, percolation area, and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460339

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
• Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Inner Shannon Estuary - South Shore 000435

Recorded monuments

• LI003-004 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (40.7m N-S; 41m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 2.05m) with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1.5m). Bank best preserved SW->NNW, becomes scarp-like NE->S. A dry-stone field wall cuts across fosse and runs along top of bank NNW->NE. Fosse best preserved along W arc, is much silted up elsewhere; low counterscarp earth-and-stone bank (ext. H 0.3m) SW->NNW. Causeway entrance (Wth 3.75m) at SSW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to E; faint cultivation ridges evident on rough N-S axis. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI003-005 Country house
  Description

  The Ordnance Survey Name Books describe Ballynacourtia House Lower as 'a rectangular building two stories high in good repair, and was built about 150 years ago' (OSNB). The site is now occupied by an abandoned single-storey house with a gable-ended slated roof and a central chimneystack. It is a vernacular house of 18th/early-19th century appearance. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of Upload: 2 August 2012

• LI003-006 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, on break in N-facing slope. Circular area (29.5m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.95m; Wth 2m) S->SE, and enclosed by eroded earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.8m) SE->S. Scarp best preserved along N arc. Field boundary runs tangentially to base of scarp along E side. Concentric earth-and-stone bank (int. H 1.45m; ext. H 1.2m) runs for c. 4.5m at SSE, may be remains of counterscarp bank. Interior, covered by mature deciduous and coniferous trees, slopes down to NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI011-013 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop ridge with panoramic views over surrounding countryside. Circular area (28.9m N-S; 29m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks, with intervening fosse (Wth 2.2m). Inner bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.15m), best preserved NW->E, becomes scarp-like E->S. Outer bank (int. H 2.1m; ext. H 0.9m) best preserved at N. Gaps in outer bank at SE (Wth 2.1m) and S (Wth 1m). Interior, covered by mature deciduous trees, slopes down gently 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 Ballynacourty.

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 Ballynacourty, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are made ground and water.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballynacourty · Baile na Cúirte

Area

1,860,655 m² (186.07 ha, 459.78 acres)

Civil parish

Iveruss, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Castletown, the unit of the census

Census 2022

460 people lived in 174 households in the Castletown electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 22% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyaglish, Beagh, Bushyisland, Drominoona, Milltown

Placenames

Ballynacourty 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.