Ballysimon (Staunton)

35 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballysimon (Staunton), from 830 m² to 106,255 m² (10.63 ha, 26.26 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 34 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G3Groody Valley Green Wedge (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• P1Agriculture
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 5 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Dec 2023Conditional

  the demolition of existing substandard dwelling house, improvements to existing vehicular entrance, construction of a replacement dwelling house, installation of domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360912

• 14 Apr 2023Conditional

  change of use of Store (Formally Detached Cottage) to a Home and Proposed New Tertiary Wastewater Treatment System and Infiltration Treatment Area, Including all Ancillary Works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360227

• 27 Jan 2022N/a

  change of use of store (formerly detached cottage) to a home and proposed new tertiary wastewater treatment system and infiltration treatment area, including all ancillary works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2278

• 31 May 2021Conditional

  demolition of Ballysimon Bridge over the River Groody on Golf Links Road L1116, Ballysimon Bridge is on the record of protected structures as Protected Structure RPS 1596, construction of a new bridge over the River Groody, construction of flood defence walls along the River Groody, including a weir wall upstream of the new bridge, road widening and upgrade of 350 metres of roadway on Golf Links Road L1116 and 300 metres of roadway along Old Ballysimon Road L1171, construction of boundary walls, footpaths, cycleways, traffic lights and public lighting, installation of surface water sewers, foul sewers, gas main, telecommunications, utility services and associated services, installation of traffic calming measures on the Old Ballysimon Road including a new gateway entry to the City, new road surfacing, new road markings, upgraded road signage and street furniture and all ancillary works necessary for completion

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 218006

• 2 Sept 2020Conditional

  construction of a two storey extension to the rear of our house

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20862

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 Ballysimon (Staunton).

Recorded monuments

• LI013-120 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated in low-lying, gently undulating pasture, immediately S of the Limerick-Waterford railway line. The monument is masked in the W by grassy vegetation and in the E by dense scrub vegetation. Sub-oval area (c. 38m NW-SE; 29.2m E-W) defined by a gentle scarp and enclosed by two fosses and an intervening bank. The scarp (Wth. 1m; H 0.1m) is evident from NNE to NNW. The internal fosse (Wth. 2m) is U-shaped. The intervening bank (int. H 0.4m; Wth. 2.7m; ext. H 1.1m) is gently scarped on the interior and rounded on the exterior. There is a gap in the SW (Wth. 7.7m) in which there is a growth of Hawthorns, surrounding a mortared stone pillar. The external fosse (Wth. 5.7m; H 0.7m) is flat-bottomed. It is not evident to the W. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 31 May 2013

Architectural heritage

• Ó Séaghdha, house, 1780–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached four-bay single-storey direct entry thatched house, built c. 1790, now in use as a public house. Comprising render shopfront to front (south) elevation, two-bay two-storey extension to west and single-bay single-storey extension to east elevation. Pitched re-thatched roof. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows, painted sills and cast-iron sill guards. Shopfront comprising pilasters with recessed moulded panels, fascia and moulded cornice with square-headed display window. Square-headed opening having replacement timber battened door. West extension comprising pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Those to ground floor with cast-iron sill guards.

• Ballroom/dance hall/disco, 1850–1870 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached six-bay single-storey corrugated-iron outbuilding, built c. 1940. Pitched corrugated-iron roof with corrugated plastic roof lights. Painted corrugated iron walls. Square-headed window openings with timber framed casement windows. Square-headed door opening with corrugated-iron door. Square-headed later garage door opening with red brick surround and rolling garage door.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_998 (ZIP).

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ballysimon (Staunton) with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballysimon (Staunton) · Béal Átha Síomoin (Staunton)

Area

502,936 m² (50.29 ha, 124.28 acres)

Civil parish

Derrygalvin, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballysimon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballysimon electoral division: 16,540 people in 5,566 households; 59% of households own their home; 52% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballysimon, Ballysimon (Dickson), Ballysimon Commons, Crossagalla, Garryglass, Inchmore, Knockananty

Placenames

Ballysimon (Staunton) 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.