Ballyvogue
Ballyvogue is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Baile Dhabhóg.
Parcel 2385676
- Area
- 81,074 m² (8.11 ha, 20.03 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
- Ballyvogue
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
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 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
- 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.
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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
- 86.3 ha
- 213 acres
- Land parcels
- 16
- registered freehold, median 4,770 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 4
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvogue, from 39 m² to 298,576 m² (29.86 ha, 73.78 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 20 neighbouring parcels touch it.
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Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballyvogue 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
23 Dec 2025Conditional
a) A livestock shed with cubicles and an underground slatted slurry storage tank b) A Straw storage shed c) A Calf rearing shed d) A livestock shed with an underground slatted slurry storage tank and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561399
19 Dec 2024Conditional
the sub division of a site and separation of existing dwelling house permitted under 08/1397 ancillary to the main dwelling on the overall site, use of the existing ancillary dwelling house as a separate standalone dwelling unit and construction of boundary fencing together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461284
5 Sept 2024Refused
the revision of the site boundaries and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460890
2 Sept 2024Refused
revised site boundaries from those previously granted under planning application reference 99/1374 & 08/1397 and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460876
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
Recorded monuments
- LI011-061 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on brow of low hill, in paddock immediately E of farm passage. Roughly circular area (28.5m N-S; 31.5m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank, with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 3m) SE->NW. Bank (int. H 1.6m; ext. H 2.4m) best preserved WSW->NE; from NE->SE it has been worn down to a scarped edge (H 0.8m; Wth 4m) by cattle accessing interior. Dip in bank at SW (Wth 3.5m); gap in bank (Wth 3.2m) at WNW. Faint counterscarp bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.5m) WSW->W. A field wall runs along outer edge of fosse SW->NW. Interior, covered by mature ash trees, slopes down gently to E. A small disused concrete-block farm shed (4m x 4m) stands in NW quadrant. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI011-062 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, atop low hill. Roughly circular area (34m N-S; 32m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m), with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 1.2m) NE->SE. Bank denuded to scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 4m) SE->NNE from which there is a gradual slope down towards centre of enclosure. Dry-stone field boundary (H 0.9m) runs along outer edge of fosse NNE->SE. Interior under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-064 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on break in E-facing slope overlooking river valley. Oval area (38m N-S) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 0.85m) NW->SW, but bank truncated by field boundary SW->NW. Bank is widened (Wth 3m) by boulders dumped atop it at NE->SE. Bank dips at SSW. Level interior covered with nettles. 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 Ballyvogue.
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 Ballyvogue, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvogue.
- 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 Ballyvogue with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ballyvogue · Baile Dhabhóg
- Area
- 862,946 m² (86.29 ha, 213.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kilcornan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ballyvogue 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.