Ballyfirreen North
Ballyfirreen North is a townland in the civil parish of Oola, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Phirín Thuaidh.
Parcel 1674687
- Area
- 31,766 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres)
- Buildings
- No building touches it.
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Ballyfirreen North
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
This parcel is in the zone of notification of 3 recorded monuments.
- LI024-211 Enclosure
Description
On flat pasture 80m N of the townland boundary with Castlelloyd. The enclosure is within the field system (LI024-222----) and 100m WNW of enclosure (LI024-212----). The enclosure is not depicted on OSi historic maps. The enclosure is visible as a circular earthwork on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 20.1 AP 4/3621) as a circular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 44m N-S; 48m E-S). There are three internal circular features (Bruff 20.2-4) on the aerial image and later aerial photos that may be hut or ring-barrows sites (Wth c. 6m) within the enclosure. The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached survey image showing the enclosure labelled Bruff 20.1 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020
- LI024-212 Enclosure
Description
On flat pasture 18m N of the townland boundary with Castlelloyd. The enclosure is within the field system (LI024-222----) and 100m ESE of enclosure (LI024-211----). The enclosure is not depicted on OSi historic maps, but is visible as a sub-rectangular earthwork on the OSi orthoimage taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 21 AP 4/3621) as a sub-rectangular enclosure (ext. dims. c. 32m N-S; 29m E-S). The site is bisected by a later relic field boundary that cuts through the site on a NW-SE axis. The enclosure shares the orientation of the field system (LI024-222----). The enclosure is visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached survey image showing the enclosure labelled Bruff 21 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 14 September 2020
- LI024-222 Field system
Description
On flat pasture bordering the townlands of Castlelloyd and Garryduff. The field system is located around the enclosures (LI024-211/-212----). The field system is not depicted on the OSi 1840 ed. 6-inch map nor is it depicted on the 1897 ed. 25-inch map. It is visible on the OSi orthoimages taken 2005-12 and on the Digital Globe orthoimages taken 2011-2013. Identified as a relic field system by the Bruff aerial photographic survey (Bruff 20.5; AP 4/3621). The field system consists of 4 parallel field boundaries orientated NE-SW (ext. dims. 250m N-S; 200m E-W). There is evidence for spade cultivation contemporary with the fields at the S end of the plot. It is visible on Digital Google Earth orthoimage taken 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff survey image labelled Bruff 20.5 and Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 15 September 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, 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.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 17.8 ha
- 44 acres
- Land parcels
- 5
- registered freehold, median 59,055 m² (5.91 ha, 14.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyfirreen North, from 7,200 m² (0.72 ha, 1.78 acres) to 78,730 m² (7.87 ha, 19.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 5 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyfirreen North 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
25 Jun 2025Conditional
decommission of existing septic tank system and to install a replacement effluent treatment tank and percolation area. Retention Permission is also sought for a domestic garage/shed including all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25211
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballyfirreen North.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyfirreen North.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyfirreen North.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Ballyfirreen North, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyfirreen North.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ballyfirreen North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyfirreen North · Baile Phirín Thuaidh
- Area
- 178,485 m² (17.85 ha, 44.1 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
- Castlelloyd, Cloghadalton, Garryduff, Kilmacogue
- Placenames
- Ballyfirreen North 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.