Ballylahiff

25 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballylahiff, from 802 m² to 168,172 m² (16.82 ha, 41.56 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 16 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 Ballylahiff 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 Sept 2024Conditional

  an underground tank for dairy washings and associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24367

• 1 Jun 2018Conditional

  Extension of Permission for Planning File Ref. No. 12/385 : the remodelling and extension of existing house into a dormer style dwelling house including the provision of a sun room to the side of the building and relocating the current front door to the other side. Work will also include the demolition of existing sheds to the rear of dwelling house

  Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 187018

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 Ballylahiff.

Recorded monuments

• LI033A004001 Moated site
  Description

  In poorly drained reclaimed pasture, 58m S of townland boundary with Shanaclogh West, within a field system (LI033A004002-). Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as an oval-shaped platform defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as sub-rectangular shaped area (dims. c. 23m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse, intersected from SW-W-NW by a field boundary running NE-SW. Described in 1960 as a; ‘Platform 90 feet [27.4m] in diameter; has traces of a bank on it’s edge. It is 5 feet [1.5m] over field level and has a continuous shallow ditch 5 feet [1.5m] wide. Ditch has a low 9 foot [2.7m] wide bank encircling it. A wide shallow ditch runs southward from the monument to the field boundary’ (O’Dwyer 1958-61, 113; Ballylahiff 48). Site visited by Celie O’Rahilly in 1992 and described as following; ‘An aerial photograph (CUCAP AVT042, 20/07/1968), supplied by the Co. Limerick SMR Office, shows an extensive linear earthwork field system surround a rectangular earthwork, (possible moated site), which is located co-tangent with the western field boundary. This site standing proud of the rest of the field, its height being accentuated by the surrounding ditch which is approx. 6.5m wide. The internal measurements of the rectangular “platform” are approx. 20m east-west by 22m north-south.’ Monument clearly visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage. See attached profile by O’Dwyer, CUCAP aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 21 April 2021

• LI033A004002 Field system
  Description

  Pattern of rectilinear cropmarks, some perpendicular to each other adjacent to moated site (LI033A004001-) which are clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AVT042) taken 20/07/1968. Visited by Celie O’Rahilly in 1992 and described as following; ‘An aerial photograph, supplied by the Co. Limerick SMR Office, shows an extensive linear earthwork field system surround a rectangular earthwork, (possible moated site), which is located co-tangent with the western field boundary. The photograph also shows the main concentration of the linear earthworks to be to the west of this monument, but examination of the area to the east showed that these are equally extensive to the east, where, however, one north-south mound, running parallel to the existing field system, could be the remains of a more modern boundary as it is shown on the first edition of the O.S. 6” (Sheet 25). It is possible that some of the complex might be field drains, the majority of the other earthworks are at a variance with the slope of the field, (which is slight and down to the south), and to the existing system. They would appear to be interrelated to each other and to the central rectangular “platform”.’ Pattern of rectilinear earthworks clearly visible on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached CUCAP aerial photo and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 21 April 2021

• LI033A005 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In gentle depression of improved pasture, within the E angle of a field boundary (and at the convergence of three different field boundaries), and is in Co. Limerick, approx. 16m N of the county boundary. A natural spring (dims. 0.9m E-W; 0.75m N-S) defined by a low drystone wall (H 0.7m; T at base 0.75m; T at top 0.5m). The well is open (Wth 0.75m) to the W where a metal bar (long axis N-S) located 0.7m below the wall top is used to tie the walls together. There are three steps down into the well (D 0.55m) which is roofed by a D-shaped flat capstone (T 0.08m; H 1.6m above base of the well), which has split across the centre. On top of the capstone, within an arched metal covering which is open to the W and painted blue, there is a quern stone, painted white, two small statues of Our Lady, a cup, flowers in vases and a candle. Water flows downwards from the well to the SSE and into a neighbouring field which is flat and poorly drained. According to local information this well is known as 'Our Lady's Well' and is visited on the Feast of Our Lady, the 15th of August, by visitors from both sides of the county boundary and it was traditional to walk around the field five times saying the rosary and then take a drink from the well. According to Ó Danachair (1955, 206) the well moved when clothes were washed in it. Folklore collected from Monard National Co. Tipperary recorded the following tradition about this holy well; 'There is a well in Ballylahiff locally known as Our Lady's Well. At one time it was in Mr. Ryan's land, and through ill usage it removed where it now is in Mr. Haye's Land. People from the district came and do rounds there on the Patronday 15th August. If you have faith and ask requests Our Lady will grant them when you have nine rounds given. The stream from the well is believed to cure, and is very well known' (The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0577, Page 218; accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922288/4867385/5053769?ChapterID=4922288). See attached photos taken in 1954 by Caoimhín Ó Danachair, courtesy of and © National Folklore Collection, UCD. The Photographic Collection, F025.21.00188 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31132; F025.21.00185 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/16994 and F025.21.00186 accessible online at www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/31130. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 7 October 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballylahiff, 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 low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballylahiff · Baile Uí Fhlaithimh

Area

1,192,671 m² (119.27 ha, 294.72 acres)

Civil parish

Oola, and its townlands

Barony

Coonagh

Electoral division

Oola, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,119 people lived in 427 households in the Oola electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 21% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Boherdotia, Gortakilleen (Co. Tipperary), Gortnabarnan (Co. Tipperary), Milltown (Co. Tipperary), Russelstown (Co. Tipperary), Shanaclogh East, Shanaclogh West

Placenames

Ballylahiff 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.