Balliniska

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Balliniska, from 46 m² to 496,104 m² (49.61 ha, 122.59 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 29 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 Balliniska 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.

• 20 Jan 2026Conditional

  an existing zoo along with (1) expansion of site boundaries to incorporate animal enclosures, (2) site entrance with signage, car parking area & associated lighting, (3) reception & gift shop building, (4) detached party room, (5) Covered picnic area, (6) outdoor playground area and (7) animal housing & enclosure areas. Permission is also sought to (8) decommission existing septic and construct a new mechanical aeration system and tertiary filtration system & all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660037

• 14 Aug 2025Conditional

  the demolition of existing garage and rear extension , the removal of the front porch and the blocking up of existing front door to existing dwelling house, the construction of a new rear extension, the decommissioning of existing septic tank and the installation of a new replacement packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560805

• 19 Sept 2024Conditional

  the construction of a slatted shed, calving pens, straw bedded pens, cattle crush, feed passages, manure pit and concrete aprons

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 24364

• 2 Jan 2024Conditional

  a machinery shed and manure pit, and planning permission to construct a new silage base, an extension to existing slatted shed, including slatted tank and concrete aprons

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 241

• 15 Jun 2023N/a

  the (1) expansion of site boundaries to incorporate animal enclosures, (2) entrance, car parking area & lighting, (3) reception & gift shop building, (4) Detached party room, (5) outdoor playground area, (6) animal housing & enclosure rea & all ancillary site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360414

• 6 Jun 2023Conditional

  the construction of a poultry house, concrete aprons, feed silos, clean and soiled water storage tanks, site entrance and carry out of all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23298

• 25 Mar 2021Conditional

  amendments to planning permission 19/1031 comprising a revised house extension proposal from that previously approved, including all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21362

• 3 Jun 2020Conditional

  existing dwelling house as constructed and permission to renovate and alter the existing dwelling and construct an independent living unit attached to existing dwelling comprising a single storey and storey and half extension, construct a new garage and installation of a new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20453

• 18 Oct 2019Conditional

  alterations and extension to dwelling, reposition existing site entrance including all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 191031

• 11 Mar 2019Conditional

  an agricultural slatted shed with effluent tank, concrete apron and meal storage silo and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19219

• 14 Feb 2019Conditional

  the erection of a slatted cattle shed and reroofing of existing cubicle house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19124

• 21 Aug 2017Conditional

  the construction of a slatted suckler beef house, a silage base, an agricultural farm entrance extension and ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17780

• 19 May 2017Conditional

  a single dwelling house, detached domestic garage, advanced wastewater treatment system, percolation area, entrance and ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17456

• 20 Jan 2017Conditional

  to demolish existing out houses and for permission for change of design of extension to existing single storey annex to rear of existing dwelling house from that previously granted under planning ref. 14/1134 and carry out all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1735

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 Balliniska.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-033 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Monument, depicted as penannular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 50m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-034 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field. However, it is still evident as circular area (diam. 38m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.25m; Wth 1.6m). A field boundary runs just outside and concentric with scarp S->N. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-139 Enclosure
  Description

  In level pasture. Sub-oval area (26m NNE-SSW; 20m WNW-ESE) defined by scarped edge (H 0.65m; Wth 2.2m) SE-NE and by earthen bank (int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.75m) NE-SE. External fosse (D c. 0.3m) varies in width as it intermingles with a network of dry-stream depressions. Causeway entrance (Wth 4m) at ESE. Interior level, and entire monument under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-140 Earthwork
  Description

  Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 28m) defined by a ditch visible on Google Earth photograph taken 29/03/2012. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 10 January 2022

Architectural heritage

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached four-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1800, having later porch to front (south) and ruinous single-bay single-storey extension to side (west) and recent lean-to porch to side (east). Hipped thatched roof with lined-and-ruled rendered chimneystacks. Felt-lined flat roof to front porch. Felt-lined lean-to roof to side porch. Rendered walls throughout. Rendered plinth to side (east) porch. Square-headed window openings having render sills and replacement timber casement windows throughout. Square-headed door openings having timber battened doors. Render stepped approach to rear elevation of side porch. Four-bay outbuilding to (north) having pitched corrugated-iron roof with render coping and concrete walls. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to (south-east) having single-pitched corrugated-iron roof.

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 Balliniska, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_519 (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 Balliniska with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Balliniska · Baile an Uisce

Area

2,728,871 m² (272.89 ha, 674.32 acres)

Civil parish

Mahoonagh, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Danganbeg, the unit of the census

Census 2022

433 people lived in 155 households in the Danganbeg electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 29% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahawilk, Appletown, Ballygulleen, Cooliska, Coolyroe, Curragh, Danganbeg, Feohanagh, Garryduff, Moanroe Beg

Placenames

Balliniska 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.