Ballymacreese

62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballymacreese, from 55 m² to 322,521 m² (32.25 ha, 79.7 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 50 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 Ballymacreese 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.

• 5 Sept 2025Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance off existing private driveway, dwelling house, proprietary domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560895

• 19 Jan 2023Conditional

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

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360018

• 1 Sept 2021Conditional

  construction of a dwelling house, garage, site entrance and install on-site effluent treatment system, provision of an agricultural entrance including all associated site development works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211226

• 11 Jun 2021Conditional

  the construction of an extension to our existing dwelling and all ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21825

• 21 Apr 2021Conditional

  amendments to planning permission 20/379 namely to amend approved domestic garage design and attach to the approved dwelling including all associated site works. The application relates to a protected structure(curtilage of)

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 21515

• 8 Apr 2021Conditional

  construction of a slatted agricultural livestock unit, a storage shed and all associated works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21449

• 11 May 2020Conditional

  construction of dwelling, domestic garage, site entrance, install effluent treatment system including all associated site development works within the curtilage of a protected structure

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20379

• 21 Sept 2018Conditional

  storage containers, sheds, polytunnel, and prefab shop building, and ancillary works, as constructed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18922

• 1 Feb 2017Conditional

  retention permission for the erection of temporary shed for the purpose of car body repairs located at the rear of existing domestic dwelling house site and for Planning Permission for the continued use of the shed for activities not including spray painting associated with the day to day running of my established crash repair business

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 1779

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 Ballymacreese.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-063 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on a rise in rolling pasture with good views in all directions. Sub-oval area (45m N-S; 32.5m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth-and-stone (ext. H 1.3m; Wth 1m; int. H 0.5m). There are three gaps in the bank, one at N (Wth 0.7m), one at NW (Wth 1m), and one at SW (Wth 1m). The interior surface is uneven and slopes down gently from the centre. The morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (Doody 2008, 129). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 24 June 2013

• LI014-115 Well
  Description

  In poorly drained pasture with good views to the SE. Annotated ‘Tobarfelim’ on the 1897 OS 25-inch map where it is depicted at the SW end of a stream, 350m S of Ballymacreese House. Site inspection in 2005 recorded the area as heavily overgrown with the well located at the meeting point of several field boundaries. Well used as a cattle trough which consists of a rectangular-shaped concrete basin (4m NE-SW X 5m NW-SE) filled by water from the stream. Visible on Digital Globe orthoimage 2011-2013 as an overgrown area. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 7 July 2020

• LI014-116 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture on N-facing slope with good views in all directions. Not depicted on the OS maps. Identified from aerial photograph Bruff 1 (AP 4/3744). Site inspection in 2005 recorded an oval or sub-oval shaped area (diam. 15.7m N-S) defined at N and S by a scarp (Wth. 0.6m; H 0.1m) enclosed by a fosse (base Wth. 1m; D 0.15m). The interior slopes to N. Cropmarks of possible enclosure visible on OSi aerial imagery. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 7 July 2020

• LI023-131001 Enclosure
  Description

  This is the record for a monument identified by The Discovery Programme, from medium-altitude aerial photographs taken in 1986 [see Doody, M. (2008) The Ballyhoura Hills Project, Discovery Programme Monograph No 7, Wordwell, pp 65-100]. The reference for this monument is LI023: Bruff 223: AP 4/3744.

Architectural heritage

• Ballymacreese House, house, 1770–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1780. Comprising later oriel windows to front (north) elevation, return to rear (south) elevation, three-bay single-storey extension to west and two-bay single-storey extension to east elevation. Pitched slate roof with render eaves course, red brick chimneystacks and overhanging eaves. Pitched slate roof to east extension having ornate brick chimneystack. Pitched slate roof to return. Rendered walls with red brick panel to east elevation. Square-headed openings having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows with painted stone sills to first floor. Square-headed openings to oriel windows with tapered plinths. Square-headed opening comprising carved limestone doorcase having inset shouldered surround, entablature with broken scrolled pediment, carved heraldic motif and half-glazed timber panelled door. Flight of limestone steps to entrance having cast-iron railings. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to east with pitched slate roof. Painted random rubble walls. Square-headed window openings. Square-headed door openings. Pair of monolith limestone square-profile piers having carved caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Snecked limestone boundary walls with carved copings terminating in second pair of piers.

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 Ballymacreese, 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 moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Ballymacreese · Baile Mhic Rís

Area

1,847,523 m² (184.75 ha, 456.53 acres)

Civil parish

Ludden, and its townlands

Barony

Clanwilliam

Electoral division

Ballybricken, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,932 people lived in 646 households in the Ballybricken electoral division. 91% of households owned their home. 32% of homes were built since 2001. 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballynagarde, Ballyneety, Glen, Kilculleen, Luddenbeg, Luddenmore, Scart, Stonepark

Placenames

Ballymacreese 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.