Ahacore

16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahacore, from 686 m² to 465,720 m² (46.57 ha, 115.08 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 7 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ahacore 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 Aug 2026N/a

  the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660928

• 26 Feb 2026Conditional

  (a) demolition of existing two storey dwelling along with single storey car port, (b) make good to existing garage after the demolition of forementioned car port, (c) construct a single storey replacement dwelling along with new car port and (d) all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660207

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 Ahacore.

Recorded monuments

• LI014-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Situated on the E bank of Rose Brook, a tributary of the Mulkear River, on a gentle S-facing slope in poorly-drained pasture. The monument is by scrub vegetation but is evident as a sub-circular area (c. 23m N-S), enclosed by an earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.2m; Wth 2m; ext. H 0.35m) with an external fosse (Wth 2.5m; D 0.2m) from NW to SSE, and by a scarped edge along the stream's edge from SSE to NW. The bank is heavily eroded. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 June 2013

• LI014-169 Enclosure
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. ext. diam. 40m; int. diam. 26m) bisected by a post-1700 field boundary running N-S visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of small circular feature 15m to E could be the remains of a possible ditch-barrow (LI014-170----). Cropmark of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. On this orthoimage the cropmark of the possible ditch-barrow is clearly visible to E. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2020

• LI014-170 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of enclosure (LI014-169----) 15m to W. Cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthophoto taken 25/03/2017. Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 3 June 2020

• LI014-173 Barrow - ditch barrow
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland. Outline of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 10m) defined by a fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 24 June 2020

Architectural heritage

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

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility low, on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

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

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both 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 Ahacore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Ahacore · Áth an Chomhair

Area

672,903 m² (67.29 ha, 166.28 acres)

Civil parish

Abington, and its townlands

Barony

Owneybeg

Electoral division

Clonkeen, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Clonkeen electoral division: 1,055 people in 358 households; 82% of households own their home; 57% of homes were built since 2001; 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Abington, Farnane, Maddyboy, Toberagarriff

Placenames

Ahacore 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.