Ballyrune

17 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyrune, from 335 m² to 370,731 m² (37.07 ha, 91.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballyrune 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.

• 16 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the side of dwelling with external insulation to existing dwelling, construction of a domestic garage, installation of a proprietary treatment system and sand polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460916

• 19 Oct 2022Conditional

  the construction of an extension to the slatted house, complete with cubicles, automatic scrapers, milking parlour, dairy, plant room, dairy holding yard, calving box, an extension to existing calf house, to construct a machinery shed, to construct a slatted cubicle house, and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221125

• 20 Jan 2022Conditional

  an extension to the side of existing dwelling house along with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2254

• 5 Nov 2020Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, installation of a proprietary treatment system and polishing filter, and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 201132

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  construction of a 1.5 storey extension to the side of dwelling house, fenestration changes and smooth plaster finish to the front elevation of dwelling and domestic garage, extension to the rear of domestic garage, realignment and construction of front boundary wall and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19892

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 Ballyrune.

Recorded monuments

• LI012-037 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, atop hill. Circular area (26.5m N-S; 26.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.1m). Bank is best preserved SW->NE, but becoming scarp-like along S arc (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.3m). Break in bank (Wth 1.7m) at WSW. Interior is under rough pasture except verges which are masked by briars and thorn bushes as is enclosing element. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-038 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on break in ENE-facing slope, in area of rock outcrop. Circular area (31.7m N-S; 32.3m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.8m) NNW->SSW and defined by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth 4m) SSW->NNW. Bank, best preserved SE->SSW, dips at ESE (Wth 2.6m). Enclosure cut by field wall (H 1.5m; Wth 0.65m) on N-S axis separating E third of interior. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently towards SE, with exposed limestone bedrock near N verge. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI012-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In low-lying pasture, near base of E-facing slope into marsh, in area of outcropping limestone. Sub-circular area (23.6m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 0.5m) which is best preserved SE->WNW. Interior, covered with hawthorn trees, slopes gently down to E. Seams of exposed bedrock incorporated into bank at NE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyrune, 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

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_777 (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 Ballyrune with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyrune · Baile Riúin

Area

755,763 m² (75.58 ha, 186.75 acres)

Civil parish

Kildimo, and its townlands

Barony

Kenry

Electoral division

Kildimo, the unit of the census

Census 2022

688 people lived in 235 households in the Kildimo electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballycasey, Ballyvareen, Court, Kildimo, Knockroe

Placenames

Ballyrune 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.