Ballyvulhane

29 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyvulhane, from 68 m² to 240,571 m² (24.06 ha, 59.45 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 24 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 Ballyvulhane 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.

• 6 Mar 2026Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660256

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 Ballyvulhane.

Recorded monuments

• LI040-050001 Field system
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture, in the townlands of Tankardstown, Goat Island and Ballyvulhane, associated with enclosures (LI040-050002/003-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site (Site No. 040116) identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 2553) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh Wes-Limerick gas pipeline (Strip Map 5, Site 5/11). Visible on the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 82; AP 5/2108) as linear cropmarks perpendicular to each other. Field system visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on google Earth orthoimages. See attached aerial photograph from Bórd Gáis Éireann Curraleigh West-Limerick gas pipeline (BGE Site 5/11) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 5 May 2021

• LI040-050005 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, immediately N of townland boundary with Tankardstown, in SE quadrant of a field system (LI040-050001-), a rectangular enclosure (LI040-050004-) lies 50m to the SE. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 82 (1); AP 5/2108) as a small circular mound. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Bruff survey image showing mound and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 May 2021

• LI040-151 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed wet pasture, 50m W of watercourse, a possible barrow (LI040-155----) lies 130m to the SW. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Identified by the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 84; AP 5/2108) as an earthwork complex. Linear cropmarks visible perpendicular to each other on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 may represent a relic watercourse in S quadrant and a relic post-1700 field boundary in N quadrant. See attached Bruff aerial photograph and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 8 June 2021

• LI040-155 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed wet pasture, a possible enclosure (LI040-151----) lies 130m to the NE. Not marked on OSi historic maps. Possible site identified during examination of aerial photographs (BGE 1/10,000, 61) taken 03/11/1984 on the Bórd Gáis Éireann gas pipeline. Monument visible as a circular cropmark (diam. c. 6m) in a field with drainage channels and cultivation ridges running E-W on Google Earth orthoimage taken 20/03/2018. No surface remains visible on OSi orthophotograph or Digital Globe orthoimage. See attached Google Earth orthoimage. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 1 June 2021

Architectural heritage

• Ballyvulhane Bridge, bridge, 1819–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Three-arch road bridge, built c. 1820; rebuilt 1922, over Morningstar River. Coursed rubble limestone walls, with parapet walls, with cut copings. Rendered parapet wall to rebuilt section with date plaque having incised lettering. Tooled stone plinths to piers. V-cutwaters to upstream elevations. Round-headed arches flanking recent flat arch with concrete supports. Tooled stone voussoirs to round-headed arches.

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 Ballyvulhane, 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

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyvulhane.

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 Ballyvulhane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ballyvulhane · Baile Uí Mhothláin

Area

1,274,052 m² (127.41 ha, 314.83 acres)

Civil parish

Uregare, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Uregare, the unit of the census

Census 2022

654 people lived in 223 households in the Uregare electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 30% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Baggotstown, Baggotstown West, Ballincolloo, Ballygrennan, Goatisland, Kyle, Meadagh, Milltown, Tankardstown

Placenames

Ballyvulhane 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.