Ardnapreaghaun
Townland in the civil parish of Croagh, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Ard na bPréachán
- Area
- 36.9 ha
- 91 acres
- Land parcels
- 9
- registered freehold, median 4,935 m² (0.49 ha, 1.22 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 5
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ardnapreaghaun, from 2,068 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres) to 293,558 m² (29.36 ha, 72.54 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 23 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ardnapreaghaun 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
18 Jun 2026N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, bored well, vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660682
19 Mar 2026Conditional
carrying out of part demolition of existing dwelling including demolition of adjacent derelict outbuildings and for permission to carry out alterations and extensions to the front, side and rear of existing dwelling including a carport roofed area, the installation of an on-site effluent treatment system, permission to install a temporary prefab dwelling unit, provision of new driveway and all associated site development works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660306
2 Apr 2025Conditional
(a) demolition of existing dwelling house due to defective block (b) construct a new dwelling house, (c) decommission existing septic tank and install a new wastewater treatment unit and polishing filter, and (d) all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560280
21 Apr 2022Conditional
the construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22445
21 Sept 2021Conditional
construction of a part single-storey, part two-storey dwelling house, detached domestic garage, waste water treatment system, percolation area, site entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 211314
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ardnapreaghaun.
Recorded monuments
No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ardnapreaghaun.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ardnapreaghaun.
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ardnapreaghaun.
- 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Ardnapreaghaun with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Ardnapreaghaun · Ard na bPréachán
- Area
- 369,058 m² (36.91 ha, 91.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Croagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Dromard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Dromard electoral division: 916 people in 300 households; 92% of households own their home; 32% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Ardnapreaghaun 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.