Ballygubba North

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygubba North, from 636 m² to 387,684 m² (38.77 ha, 95.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 33 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 Ballygubba 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.

• 23 Feb 2021Conditional

  existing garage and outbuildings to the side(western) of the existing cottage, existing vehicular entrance, existing septic tank

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 21206

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 Ballygubba North.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-106 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 70m N of townland boundary with Tankardstown North. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a circular-shaped area (diam. c. 25m) defined by a scarp with drainage ditch from S-W-N-NE. The outline of monument is visible as a circular-shaped area delimited by trees on aerial photograph (ASIAP (345) 1) take. Google Earth orthoimage dated 20/09/2020 shows a tree lined circular-shaped area with a gap at E. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and ASIAP aerial photograph. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 May 2021 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 305/3 on 13/09/2002; 345/1 on 05/01/2003.

• LI039-107 Earthwork
  Description

  In wet pasture 100m S of a watercourse that marks the townland boundary with Ballynamuddagh. Not depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 80m NW-SE; 75m NE-SW) bisected by a drainage channel running NNW-SSE. Levelled earthwork surveyed by the ASI when all that survived was the slightly curved edge of an elevated area at W. The double drainage ditch which bisected the monument was described as ‘two parallel ditches about 2m deep between which there is a raised bank and must have been constructed for drainage purposes between 1840-1920’. No surface remains visible of levelled earthwork on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12. Cropmark of levelled earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 4 May 2021

Architectural heritage

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

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ballygubba 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_979 (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 Ballygubba North with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballygubba North · Baile Ghioba Thuaidh

Area

1,003,514 m² (100.35 ha, 247.97 acres)

Civil parish

Tankardstown, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Dromin, the unit of the census

Census 2022

577 people lived in 197 households in the Dromin electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 26% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballygubba South, Ballynamuddagh, Clogher East, Mountfox, Tankardstown North

Placenames

Ballygubba 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.