Ballyshonikin

70 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyshonikin, from 11 m² to 242,314 m² (24.23 ha, 59.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 25 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.

• G3Greenbelt1 (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Cork County Development Plan 2022, Cork County · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

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

• 21 Jan 2026Conditional

  alterations and revisions to existing site boundaries previously permitted under Planning Reference 78/14862

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660042

• 25 Jan 2024Conditional

  the demolition of a detached garage, porch and side extension to existing dwelling house and the renovation of existing dwelling house to include new roof with rooflight windows, new porch, elevational changes to existing dwelling house, new entrance, driveway and erection of steel tech shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460053

• 16 Nov 2023Conditional

  the construction of an entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic waste water treatment system & polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360831

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a dwelling house, garage, front entrance, wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22999

• 20 Mar 2018Conditional

  (a) alterations to existing dwelling to include dormer windows to front & rear elevations & front porch, (b) existing garage (domestic use) & (c) existing summer garden shed

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 18258

• 7 Mar 2017Conditional

  dwelling house, entrance and wastewater treatment system

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17209

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 Ballyshonikin.

Recorded monuments

• LI055-002 Earthwork
  Description

  In pasture, on slight NNW facing slope with good views in all directions. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped area enclosed by a bank, intersected at N by a post-1700 field boundary running E-W. Described in 1999, as a raised sub-circular shaped area (dim. c. 42m N-S; 38m E-W) defined by a scarp and quarried fosse (overall Wth 5.3m; Wth at base 1.6m; int D 2m; ext. D 0.4m). Monument visible as raised oval-shaped area defined by a scarp partially quarried away at SE on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 11 November 2021

• LI055-003 Earthwork
  Description

  In level pasture, on slight NNW facing slope with good views in all directions, 100m NW of townland boundary with Ballymacshaneboy. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised circular-shaped area defined by a scarp intersected from NE-E-SE by a field drain. Described in 1999, as a raised circular shaped area (dim. c. 26m N-S; 25m E-W) defined by a scarp with fosse (Overall Wth 5.35m; int. D 2.2m; ext. D 1.65m) from NE-SE and external fosse (Overall Wth 3.3m; int. D 1.45m; ext. D 1.4m) from NW-N-E-SE. Interior level and densely overgrown at margins. Fosses waterlogged and may be field drains. Monument visible as circular tree-lined earthwork on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached sketch plan surveyed and drawn by ASI, oblique aerial photograph (ASIAP) and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 November 2021

Architectural heritage

• Effin Creamey, creamery, 1880–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached six-bay single-storey creamery, built c. 1890, with corrugated-iron addition to north-west. Pitched slate roof with metal vents and cast-iron rainwater goods. Random coursed limestone walls having dressed limestone quoins. Square-headed window openings to front (north-east) elevation having red brick block-and-start surrounds and metal sill guards. Square-headed openings with red brick voussoirs and timber battened doors. Square-headed opening having double-leaf timber battened doors. Segmental-headed carriage arch having red brick voussoirs, now partially blocked up. Random coursed sandstone boundary walls to north-east with render copings.

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 Ballyshonikin, 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 Ballyshonikin.

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

Name

Ballyshonikin · Baile Sheoinicín

Area

1,829,578 m² (182.96 ha, 452.1 acres)

Civil parish

Effin, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Ballymacshaneboy, the unit of the census

Census 2022

473 people lived in 182 households in the Ballymacshaneboy electoral division. 90% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballylopen (Co. Cork), Ballymacshaneboy, Effin, Garryncoonagh North, Garryncoonagh South, Newpark, Rathglassane (Co. Cork)

Placenames

Ballyshonikin 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.