Ballinlyna Lower

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballinlyna Lower, from 1,575 m² to 256,134 m² (25.61 ha, 63.29 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 Ballinlyna Lower 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.

• 5 Aug 2026Conditional

  extension and alterations to existing dwelling house and the installation of a new wastewater treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660896

• 2 Mar 2026Conditional

  construction of a single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling, installation of new septic tank and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660226

• 3 Feb 2020Conditional

  construction of dwelling house, detached domestic garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2073

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

Designated sites

• Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Ballyroe Hill & Mortlestown Hill 002089

Recorded monuments

• LI056-012 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, 145m E of townland boundary with Ballygeagoge. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 268) in Ballynlyna Lower townland. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 November 2021

• LI056-014 Stone circle
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of a track running roughly E-W. An enclosure (LI056-013----) lies 264m to the W. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Stone Circle’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map. Described in 1931 as ‘a huge stone circle souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 75) in the vicinity of Cahir Mortle. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 23 November 2021

• LI056-015001 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of townland boundary with Clovers. Levelled cliff-edge fort (LI056-015002-) immediately to ENE. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is shown standing on W edge of levelled enclosure. Standing stone listed by Grogan (1989, 268) in Ballynlyna Lower townland. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 November 2021

• LI056-015002 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of townland boundary with Clovers. A standing stone (LI056-015002-) lies to immediate W. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a D-shaped area (dims. c. 23m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a bank from SW-W-N-E-SE, with gaps at NW and NE, defined at S by a scarp of watercourse running NE-SW. In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). No surface remains of levelled monument on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. Faint trace of D-shaped cropmark on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 November 2021

• LI056-015003 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of townland boundary with Clovers. Possible souterrain in the interior of a cliff-edge fort (LI056-015001-) with a standing stone (LI056-015002-) to immediate W. In 1931 the monument was described as; ‘two moats or lisses with souterrains’ (O’Shaughnessy and Carroll 1931, 69-70). Annotated ‘Souterrain’ on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map, not depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map. No surface remains of levelled monument on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013. Faint trace of D-shaped cropmark of cliff-edge fort on Google Earth orthoimage dated 28/06/2018 but no trace of souterrain visible. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 December 2021

• LI056-016 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, immediately S of a track running roughly E-W. A standing stone (LI056-017----) lies 55m to the NE. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Souterrain’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted as a small opening immediately S of a farm trackway where it intersects with a post 1700 field boundary running roughly E-W. No surface remains visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 or on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 25 November 2021

• LI056-017 Standing stone
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of a track running roughly NE-SW and public road immediately to E. A souterrain (LI056-01----) lies 50m to the SSW. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Annotated ‘Pillar Stone’ on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map where it is depicted standing immediately W of junction between farm trackway and public road. No surface remains of standing stone on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 November 2021

• LI056-018 Souterrain
  Description

  In pasture, immediately W of townland boundary with Ballyroe. Not marked on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map and 1897 ed. 25-inch map. Annotated ‘Souterrain’ on Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map, where it is shown as a small circular opening immediately W of stream. No surface remains of souterrain or watercourse visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 24 November 2021

• LI056-051 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  Tuck Mill depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map may have been built on site of or incorporated fabric of watermill depicted on the 17th century Down Survey Map of Coshlea Barony (Hib. Reg.). See attached Down Survey Barony Map showing the watermill at Ballinlyna Lower, courtesy of TCD Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 November 2022

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballinlyna Lower, 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 high, 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 Ballinlyna Lower.

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

Name

Ballinlyna Lower · Baile an Laighnigh Íochtarach

Area

1,403,430 m² (140.34 ha, 346.8 acres)

Civil parish

Kilfinnane, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Kilfinnane, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,147 people lived in 474 households in the Kilfinnane electoral division. 67% of households owned their home. 27% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinlyna Upper, Ballygeagoge, Ballyroe Lower, Ballyroe Upper, Clovers

Placenames

Ballinlyna Lower 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.