Ballygriffin

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballygriffin, from 214 m² to 130,838 m² (13.08 ha, 32.33 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 11 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 Ballygriffin 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.

• 16 Aug 2024Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, drive-way, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2460820

• 27 Apr 2021Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, provision of a wastewater treatment system and polishing filter, private well, new site entrance and all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21544

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 Ballygriffin.

Recorded monuments

• LI021-108 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture, with good to moderate views in all directions. Townland boundaries with Ballyluskey and Branagh lie 120m to NW and 200m to SW, respectively. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a slightly raised circular-shaped area (diam. 26m) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth at top 0.8m; overall Wth 5.5m; int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.6m) and an external fosse (basal Wth 1.2m; overall Wth 4.8m; D 0.25m) with an entrance gap (Wth 4m) at E. The drystone wall is present from NNE-E-S-W and is largely absent from W-N-NNE, where it has been reduced to a lower, sod-covered earth and stone bank. The wall (Wth 1.6m; int. H 1.15m; ext. H 1.75m) is best preserved where the facing survives internally and externally from S-SSW-SW and is visible externally from NNE-ENE. The external fosse is evident from NE-ENE-E and is visible as a dark green cropmark of lush grass from E-S-W-N-NE. The interior is level, dry and clear of overgrowth. A rectangular-shaped cattle shelter (5.5m WNW-ESE; 2m NNE-SSW) with a lean-to roof abuts the interior of the wall at SW. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped, tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan and cross-section surveyed and drawn by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 July 2020

• LI021-174 Fulacht fia
  Description

  In low-lying wet, level pasture with restricted views in all directions, 50m N of a townland boundary with Ballylusky. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2000 and described as a horseshoe-shaped mound (12m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW) which is open (Wth 8m) to NE. Mound is well-formed (int. H 1.25m; ext. H 0.7m) and in good condition, although is eroded at SW exposing charcoal rich earth and burnt stone. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 or on Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018. See attached sketch plan surveyed by the ASI and Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 10 August 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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 Ballygriffin, 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.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_911 (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 Ballygriffin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballygriffin · Baile Uí Ghríofa

Area

423,594 m² (42.36 ha, 104.67 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenoghty, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Crecora, the unit of the census

Census 2022

461 people lived in 155 households in the Crecora electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylusky, Coologe, Killeenoghty, Rathbranagh, Toryhill

Placenames

Ballygriffin 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.