Bawnacouma

31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawnacouma, from 376 m² to 260,186 m² (26.02 ha, 64.29 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 Bawnacouma 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 Jan 2026Conditional

  the demolition of an existing domestic garage, permission to construct a new replacement domestic garage, a new front porch extension to existing dwelling, modifications to existing site entrance and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660049

• 27 Sept 2018Conditional

  an entrance, single storey dwelling house, garage, private well, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 18943

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 Bawnacouma.

Recorded monuments

• LI022-027 Enclosure
  Description

  In gently undulating tillage with poor views in all directions, 150m W of townland boundary with Kilpeacon and standing stone (LI022-236----) 125m to SW. No surface remains visible. Depicted on the 1840 OS 6-inch map as a large circular shaped area enclosed by a scarp, not marked on subsequent editions, likely that monument was levelled between the map dates. Faint trace of cropmark of levelled monument visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018. See attached Google earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 28 July 2020

• LI022-029 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Earthwork described in 1942-3 as following; 'This is a circular space enclosed by an earthen bank. Outside this there is a fosse. The interior seems level with the field outside. Quite recently the bank has been faced with stones on the outside. These have been collected off the neighbouring fields. It is now used as a paddock and the original entrance on the east side has been narrowed and fitted with a gate. Fences have been built against the rampart on the N. W. and S.E. sides. The overall diameter is 150' [46m] (O'Kelly 1942-3, 244). Tree-covered monument clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 9 March 2020

• LI022-236 Standing stone
  Description

  In level wet pasture with poor views in all directions. Enclosure (LI022-027----) located 125m to NNE. Surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a roughly diamond shaped upright stone (H 1.2m) with its long axis orientated NNW-SSE. The rock which appears to be a conglomerate has packing stones at the base. Visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 7 August 2020

Architectural heritage

• Post box, 1880–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Wall-mounted cast-iron post box, erected c. 1885, bearing crown and royal insignia of Queen Victoria. Mounted in boundary wall to roadside.

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 Bawnacouma, 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, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Bawnacouma · Bán an Champa

Area

818,336 m² (81.83 ha, 202.22 acres)

Civil parish

Kilpeacon, and its townlands

Barony

Smallcounty

Electoral division

Kilpeacon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

561 people lived in 192 households in the Kilpeacon electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Badgerfort, Fanningstown, Kilpeacon, Newtown

Placenames

Bawnacouma 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.