Ballykenny

42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballykenny, from 559 m² to 414,191 m² (41.42 ha, 102.35 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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 Ballykenny 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.

• 13 Dec 2025Conditional

  a change of use of existing dispensary to dwelling house, the construction of a two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling, the installation of a wastewater treatment unit & polishing filter, revisions to site boundary and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561331

• 4 Jun 2025Conditional

  a change of house type from that previously approved under planning application reference 21/1648

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560526

• 25 Mar 2025N/a

  construction of a bungalow dwelling, effluent treatment system and together with site access & all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560243

• 29 Nov 2021Conditional

  erection of a domestic bungalow dwelling, domestic garage, tertiary treatment system and infiltration/treatment area and connections at all existing services

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211648

• 24 Apr 2017Conditional

  to erect an (i) extension to existing to slatted shed incorporating cubicles and flow channels (ii) Meal bin and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 17363

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 Ballykenny.

Recorded monuments

• LI044-039 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on slight NW-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 32m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.45m; Wth 5.4m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 3.2m). Field boundary runs through interior crossing scarped edge at SW and NE. Fosse and scarped edge very shallow SW->NE. Interior level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-044 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Enclosure has been partially levelled and incorporated into pasture field. However, it is still evident as roughly circular area (30m N-S; 26m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.15m), with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 0.6m) NE->SW. Fosse recently re-cut, and spoil dumped on bank, NW->NE. Road truncates fosse SW->NW. Interior is level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-045 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Site is almost entirely covered by dense overgrowth but as far as could be ascertained consists of circular area (diam. c. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (Wth c. 4m; D c. 1m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-046 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted as circular enclosure on 1924 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled but is still discernible as circular area (diam. 27m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.65m) with external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 1m). Interior level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-047 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level rough pasture. Circular area (diam. 24m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.6m; Wth 2.6m), with external fosse (D 0.35m; Wth 3.6m) and counterscarp earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.1m) NW->SSW. Field boundary and watercourse runs along line of fosse and external bank SSW->NW. Interior level and under grass. Ringfort (LI044-048---) 15m to NNE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-048 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 36m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse. Fosse is best preserved (Wth 4m) NW->N, but very shallow N->NW. Gap (Wth 4m) in bank at ENE. Field boundary runs along top of bank around full circumference. Interior is level and under grass. Ringfort (LI044-048---) 15m to SSW. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-049 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Monument, depicted on 1924 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. However, enclosing element is still discernible SW->NW as a scarped edge (H 0.15m; Wth 2m) with external fosse (Wth 3m) and counter-scarp bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m). Interior level and under grass; shallow depression in NE quadrant was, according to local information, deeper until recently filled in. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-051 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Roughly circular area (37m N-S; 33m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m; ext. H 1.8m) with external fosse (Wth 1.2m; D 0.5m). Gap (Wth 2.8m) in bank at ESE. Interior level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI044-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 1.5m) NW->SW; enclosing element levelled SW->NW. Level interior under rough pasture but covered by overgrowth along fringes. In NE quadrant is roughly circular depression (diam. 2m; D 1m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballykenny.

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 Ballykenny, about 1 in 20 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 Ballykenny.

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

Name

Ballykenny · Baile Uí Chionaoith

Area

1,868,542 m² (186.85 ha, 461.73 acres)

Civil parish

Killeedy, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Monagay, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,260 people lived in 446 households in the Monagay electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Arranagh, Ballyowen, Camas, Glebe, Glenmore East, Glenquin, Killeedy North

Placenames

Ballykenny 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.