Ballyvollane

30 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvollane, from 1,471 m² to 321,880 m² (32.19 ha, 79.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballyvollane 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.

• 2 Apr 2025Conditional

  the construction of front boundary wall & entrance. Retention permission is also being sought for the re-location and installation of upgraded effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560278

• 4 Feb 2025N/a

  the construction of front boundary wall & entrance. Retention permission is also being sought for the re-location and installation of upgraded effluent treatment system and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560077

• 25 May 2021Refused

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21712

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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI006-002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In woodland area, on flat demesnes lands liable to flooding with E bank of the River Shannon 100m to W. On the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map the earthwork is depicted standing at W edge of woodland plantation belonging to the demesne lands of Mount Shannon House located 1.5km to SSE. A pond has been constructed immediately to the E of the earthwork as part of the landscaping of the demesne.The site description is based on its cartographic representation on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map and recent OSi aerial photography. Remains consist of an oval-shaped area (approx. int. diam. c. 23m N-S; 17m E-W) enclosed by a bank standing in a woodland plantation covered with large trees. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Edmond O’Donovan Date of upload: 9 July 2020

• LI006-089 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In lowlying grassland, on the floodplains of the River Shannon located 700m to the W. Not depicted on any OS map. Initially identified during archaeological monitoring by Avril Hayes (Licence 01E0169) of a 5km way-leave associated with the laying of the Clareville to Newcastle pipeline (Hayes 2001). This revealed a spread of burnt and fire-cracked stones covering an area measuring 12m north–south by 4m. Excavated under licence no. 02E1403 by Frank Coyne, the results were summarised as following; ‘Excavation of this material revealed a series of pits and natural hollows, all filled with similar fire-shattered stone and charcoal. One of these pits produced a sherd of Beaker pottery and a piece of worked timber, tentatively interpreted as a wooden scoop or shovel. This may have been used to move the burnt stones and appeared to have been broken and abandoned in antiquity. A shallow rectangular pit was also identified, c. 10m to the east of the burnt spread. It measured 1.4m east–west by 0.9m and was cut into sand to a depth of 0.1m. It was also filled with burnt stone and occasional charcoal flecks. Part of an animal tooth was recovered from the fill of the pit. Its association with the main spread of burnt stone is unclear.’ (www.excavations.ie 2001; 1146, Hayes 2001, 2002; 1125 Coyne, 2002). Compiled by Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload 15 June 2020

• LI006-093 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In lowlying grassland, on the floodplains of the River Shannon located 630m to the W with a stream 35m to S. Not depicted on any OS map. Initially identified during archaeological monitoring by Avril Hayes (Licence 01E0169) associated with the laying of the Clareville to Newcastle pipeline (Hayes 2001). Excavated by Avril Hayes under licence no. 02E1348, the results were summarised as ‘a low mound of burnt stone in a charcoal-rich soil matrix. It lay in a low-lying marshy area close to a stream. The deposit was roughly circular, 10m in diameter, and 0.5m at its deepest. There was no obvious trough under the deposit, but a roughly circular cut lay under the south-west quadrant of the fulacht material. It was filled with burnt material. The burnt material overlay an undulating, grey, clay subsoil. No finds were recovered (www.excavations.ie 2001; 1146, Hayes 2004, 308). Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 16 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballyvollane, 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, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1054 (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 Ballyvollane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyvollane · Baile Uí Mhaoláin

Area

1,180,757 m² (118.08 ha, 291.77 acres)

Civil parish

Stradbally, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballyvarra, the unit of the census

Census 2022

4,513 people lived in 1,473 households in the Ballyvarra electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Lisnagry, Mountshannon, Prospect, Rivers

Placenames

Ballyvollane 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.