# Ahacore, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Abington, barony of Owneybeg, Co. Limerick; in Irish Áth an Chomhair. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 672,903 m² (67.29 ha, 166.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 3,130 m² (0.31 ha, 0.77 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Abington, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/abington.md - Barony: Owneybeg - Electoral division: Clonkeen, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 1,055 people lived in 358 households in the Clonkeen electoral division. 82% of households owned their home. 57% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/31425 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120014 - Centre: latitude 52.63816, longitude -8.428886 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 16 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahacore, from 686 m² to 465,720 m² (46.57 ha, 115.08 acres); 7 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1619132: 465,720 m² (46.57 ha, 115.08 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619132.md - Parcel 1650876: 86,468 m² (8.65 ha, 21.37 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650876.md - Parcel 1607788: 41,359 m² (4.14 ha, 10.22 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1607788.md - Parcel 1612453: 27,080 m² (2.71 ha, 6.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612453.md - Parcel 1663678: 21,690 m² (2.17 ha, 5.36 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663678.md - Parcel 3913066: 5,319 m² (0.53 ha, 1.31 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3913066.md - Parcel 5334876: 3,819 m² (0.38 ha, 0.94 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5334876.md - Parcel 4854105: 3,311 m² (0.33 ha, 0.82 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4854105.md - Parcel 1641308: 2,949 m² (0.29 ha, 0.73 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1641308.md - Parcel 1589515: 2,573 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589515.md - Parcel 3910986: 2,552 m² (0.26 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3910986.md - Parcel 1619454: 2,083 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1619454.md - Parcel 1589514: 1,955 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589514.md - Parcel 1643239: 1,756 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643239.md - Parcel 1601102: 714 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601102.md - Parcel 1673915: 686 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1673915.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 13 Aug 2026, Limerick County Council 2660928: N/a. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a two-storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment system and percolation area and all associated site works. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660928/0 - 26 Feb 2026, Limerick County Council 2660207: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. (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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660207/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ahacore. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI014-010: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-010----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-169----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-170----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI014-173----. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ahacore. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Ahacore, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. - 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, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ahacore.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ahacore.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ahacore.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Ahacore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Abington: https://everytownland.com/limerick/abington.md - Farnane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/farnane.md - Maddyboy: https://everytownland.com/limerick/maddyboy.md - Toberagarriff: https://everytownland.com/limerick/toberagarriff.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ahacore - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/ahacore