Ballyvoghan

56 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvoghan, from 122 m² to 368,835 m² (36.88 ha, 91.14 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 32 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 Ballyvoghan 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.

• 13 Mar 2026Conditional

  the change of use from a derelict residential dwelling to use as ‘short term letting’

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660293

• 22 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house , garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560839

• 27 Jan 2025N/a

  the construction of a new dwelling house , garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560045

• 16 Feb 2022Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22170

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

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI028-008 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope with steep drop to NE into river valley. Circular area (diam. c. 35m) defined by scarped edge (H 3m; Wth 6.1m) with external fosse (Wth 1.8m) and counterscarp bank (int. H 2.5m; ext. H 1m). Enclosing element obscured by overgrowth N->SE. Fosse evident all round but becomes very shallow and marshy W->N. Field drain enters fosse at SE. Interior covered by dense overgrowth, and slopes sharply down to ENE. Field boundaries abut enclosure at SE, NNW, N (partially removed) and NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-009 Mound
  Description

  In rough grazing, on an E-facing slope. The monument, which is depicted on the 1923 OS 6-inch map as a circular mound (diam. c. 10m), has been levelled. The immediate area of the site is noticeably marshy and covered with rushes but no trace of the mound is evident. According to local information the mound was levelled many years ago, and it was known as 'Lisheen'. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-012 Castle - tower house
  Description

  Ballyvoughan Castle described in 1840 as this castle 'measure on the inside twenty four feet [7.3m] by nineteen feet six inches [6m] and its walls are twenty five [7.6m] in height and five feet eight inches [1.7m] in thickness, but they were originally much higher. The arch over the ground floor of this Castle still remains' (O'Flanagan 1929, 26). Westropp (1906-7, 246) recorded the following details about Ballyvoghan (Baile Uí Bhuacháin) Castle; '1582 Edm. f. Morrice Hubert, of Balivochan, pardoned (Fi. 3842). Ger. Hurbert rebelled with Desmond (Inq. Exch, 54 Peyton, 113b). 1611 Held by Ol[iver]. Stephenson, who enfeoffed Jas. Walsh and others intrust (Inq. Chan, 55, ix, 62). 1633 T. Stephenson, of Ballywoghan, died (Funeral Ent, v, p. 38). 1655 Late estate of Ric. Stephenson (C.S, p. 84). 1736 Rob. Morgan, of Callow, leased land to Ric. Stephenson, of Ballywogan (Reg. Dub.). Fabric - A tower 24 feet [7.3m] by 19½ feet [6m], walls 5 feet 8 inches [1.7m] thick, with an under-vault, and 25 feet [7.6m] high. It was locally Baile ui Buadachan in 1840 (O.S.L, 9, p. 74), suggesting the ancient name Buadhachan occurring among the Eoghanachts. The older form, however, suggests the "Vaughan" family. Morrish Moghan or Vaughan was of Kilbradran, 1619 (Inq. Chan, ix, 67). A family named Boohen recently lived in Kilmeedy'. Ballyvoghan Castle described by Salter (2004, 66) as follows; 'A wing 3.8m wide projecting 2.4m at the east end of the south wall of this tower measuring 11.1m by 11.3m contains at second storey a latrine reached off the much damaged straight flights of stairs rising in the south and east walls. Nothing now survives above the vault over the second storey, which has a mural room in the SW corner, originally with a murder-hole covering the entrance (now blocked) below it'. Classified by Donnelly (1999, 26, 37) as a Type 2 tower house which consists of a castle with turret or side-tower. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 8 December 2020

• LI028-014 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on SE-facing slope immediately below top of ridge. Circular area (25.3m N-S; 25.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 1.1m) SSW->ENE and defined by scarped edge (H 1.3m; Wth 3.4m) ENE->SSW, with external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.65m) WSW->ENE. At ESE, scarp dips to H 0.55m for distance of 6m. Indistinct counterscarp bank (ext. H 0.35m) WSW->NNW. Interior, under pasture, slopes down to ESE. Field boundary abuts outer edge of fosse at N. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-154 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope and immediately W of road. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) truncated at E by roadway on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been partially levelled. However, arc of scarped edge (H 0.7m; Wth 6m; C c. 27m) survives SSE->W. Otherwise site level and under grass. 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 Ballyvoghan.

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 Ballyvoghan, 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 moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballyvoghan · Baile Uí Bhuacháin

Area

1,859,504 m² (185.95 ha, 459.49 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,037 people lived in 384 households in the Ardagh electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballykealy, Ballymakeery, Cahermoyle, Glendiheen, Glenville, Kerrikyle, Knockbweeheen, Lisgordan

Placenames

Ballyvoghan 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.