Ahaveheen

20 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ahaveheen, from 1,381 m² to 282,789 m² (28.28 ha, 69.88 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 22 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 Ahaveheen 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.

• 3 Jun 2022Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, domestic garage, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 22638

• 9 Mar 2017Conditional

  the construction of a side extension to a dwelling house & associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17214

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 Ahaveheen.

Recorded monuments

• LI045-044 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In low-lying level pasture; River Deel runs E-W to S of site and smaller stream runs N-S to W. Sub-circular depression (c. 1m N-S; c. 2m E-W; D c. 2m) with outflow stream running S into River Deel. Pipes inserted into well in recent times source water for nearby farm. In mid-1950s reported to be seldom visited though 'formerly very popular' (Ó Danachair 1955, 205). Water said to cure sore eyes and other ailments (ibid.). According to O'Donovan known as Tobar hOdhrain (St Oran's well) (OSNB). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-053 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, at S edge of level area overlooking River Deel to S. Enclosure partially levelled and incorporated into pasture field, especially on E and S sides where surrounding field boundaries have recently been removed. Circular area (21m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4m) with external fosse (D 0.2m; Wth 1.4m). Ringfort c. 80m to S (LI045-54---). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-054 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on S-facing slope overlooking River Deel. Circular area (diam. c. 20m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.5m) with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 1.4m). Site bisected by E-W running field boundary and drain. Both interior and enclosing element are completely covered by densely overgrown on S side of this boundary. Ringfort c. 80m to N (LI045-053---). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI045-056 Moated site
  Description

  In pasture, on slight N-facing slope. Sub-rectangular raised area (c. 36m N-S; c. 35m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (ext. H 1.5m) with fosse (Base Wth. 3.00m; D 0.75m). External bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 0.7m) NW->NNE. N-S running field boundary and field drain runs along line of fosse NE->SE. N-S running boundary runs to outer line of fosse at NW corner. Interior overgrown and inaccessible. 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 Ahaveheen.

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 Ahaveheen, 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 Ahaveheen.

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

Name

Ahaveheen · Áth an Bheithín

Area

1,617,181 m² (161.72 ha, 399.61 acres)

Civil parish

Cloncrew, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Upper

Electoral division

Dromcolliher, the unit of the census

Census 2022

928 people lived in 374 households in the Dromcolliher electoral division. 71% of households owned their home. 23% of homes were built since 2001. 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ahadagh, Bohard, Callahow, Cloonroosk, Gortnagluggin, Tulligmacthomas

Placenames

Ahaveheen 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.