Ballyvarra Wood

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvarra Wood, from 1,188 m² to 336,259 m² (33.63 ha, 83.09 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 17 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 Ballyvarra Wood 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.

No planning application touches the townland of Ballyvarra Wood 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: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

• LI014-165 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, 55m NE of the Mulkear River and 55m E of the townland boundary with Garrymore. Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 28m) visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark clearly visible on Google Earth orthophoto taken 06/02/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 06/02/2018 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• Mulkear House, house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c. 1820, having gable-fronted porch to front (east), return to rear (west) elevation having three-bay two-storey lean-to. Hipped slate roof with overhanging eaves, cast-iron rainwater good and rendered chimneystacks. Pitched slate roof to porch having timber bargeboards and finial. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed openings to first floor with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Camber-headed openings to ground floor having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows with flanking two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed openings to porch, north and south elevation, having timber casement windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to rear and lean-to with six-over-three pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Square-headed opening to porch with timber panelled door and limestone threshold. Square-headed opening to lean-to having timber battened door. Two-bay single-storey outbuilding adjoining rear elevation with pitched slate roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed window opening. Square-headed timber battened door. Pair of rubble limestone square-profile piers having double-leaf metal gates.

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 Ballyvarra Wood, 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_1091 (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 Ballyvarra Wood with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyvarra Wood · Coill Bhaile an Bharraigh

Area

834,845 m² (83.48 ha, 206.29 acres)

Civil parish

Killeenagarriff, 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

Ballyvarra, Cloghnadromin, Clonkeen (Barrington), Clonkeen (Molyneux), Curragh, Garrymore, Killeenagarriff, Lismullane

Placenames

Ballyvarra Wood 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.