Ballyloughnaan

33 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyloughnaan, from 120 m² to 576,055 m² (57.61 ha, 142.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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 Ballyloughnaan 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.

• 24 Apr 2025Conditional

  an increase of capacity of the attending children currently at 11 as per planning reference to 12/326 condition 11 to an increase of 16 children. Secondly an adjustment of opening hours as per previous planning application 18/207 condition 8 from 9am to 6pm to 8am to 6pm Monday to Friday only

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560360

• 25 Aug 2023Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, install on-site effluent treatment system including all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360614

• 23 Oct 2020Conditional

  renovation and extension of existing dwelling house to include granny flat; demolition of existing storage shed on site; construction of a new domestic storage shed; upgrade existing waste water system and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201077

• 7 Mar 2018Conditional

  extension to the rear of the existing Montessori school. The development shall consist of kitchen, office and relocation of an existing rainwater soakaway only

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18207

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 Ballyloughnaan.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-115 Ringfort - unclassified
  Description

  On a slight N-facing slope, in gently undulating pasture, with good views from E-S-W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (approx. 42m N-S; 40m E-W). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as no surface remains visible. A natural scarp (H 1.7m) runs E-W across the field, to the immediate N. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 31 July 2020

Architectural heritage

• Newborough House, country house, 1760–1780 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement country house, built c. 1770, having five-bay two-storey over basement block with dormer attic to rear (north) elevation, single-bay two-storey extension to east elevation and three-bay single-storey addition to west elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, render eaves course and timber bargeboards to dormers. Pitched slate roof to west addition and flat roof to east extension. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to ground floor with nine-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening to rear having spoked fanlight over twelve-over-six pane timber sliding sash window with limestone sill. Square-headed openings to dormers having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed openings to rear with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to addition, rear elevation having fixed windows and cast-iron sill guards. Round-headed opening with carved limestone pilasters having floral motifs to capitals supporting entablature with metope style motifs and floral motifs over timber panelled door with flanking sidelights having limestone risers, spoked and cobweb fanlight over. Flight of limestone steps to entrance. Camber-headed opening to addition, rear elevation with timber battened door. Six-bay two-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof and roughcast rendered walls. Diocletian-style window openings to first floor. Square-headed window openings having limestone sills, some now blocked up. Square-headed openings with timber battened half-doors. Horse powered cast-iron water pump to east set in round-profile rubble limestone walls. Rubble limestone walls to east with single-leaf cast-iron gate. L-plan gate lodge to east having hipped slate roof and rendered chimneystack. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings, some with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills, some having cast-iron sill guard. Square-headed opening having replacement half-glazed timber panelled door. Pair of octagonal limestone piers to east with double-leaf spear-headed cast-iron gates and flanking single-leaf spear-headed pedestrian entrances with octagonal limestone piers and rendered walls. Painted rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

• House, 1900–1930 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1920, with pair of bay windows to ground floor and porch set within. Continuous roof over canted bay windows supported by timber uprights. Timber windows to bay windows with small pane toplights. Segmented headed window openings with timber sash windows to first floor. Square-headed window opening with hoodmoulding to return. Pitched roof with rendered chimneystacks.

• House, 1830–1850 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1840. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening having glazed overlight over timber panelled door. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

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 Ballyloughnaan, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_850 (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 Ballyloughnaan with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyloughnaan · Baile Uí Lachnáin

Area

1,061,557 m² (106.16 ha, 262.32 acres)

Civil parish

Croom, and its townlands

Barony

Pubblebrien

Electoral division

Adare South, the unit of the census

Census 2022

2,225 people lived in 730 households in the Adare South electoral division. 72% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 5% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycarrane, Kilgobbin, Lissaleen, Lurraga, Monearla, Rineroe

Placenames

Ballyloughnaan 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.