Arrybreaga
Townland in the civil parish of Oola, barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick; in Irish Airí Bhréige
- Area
- 68.1 ha
- 168 acres
- Land parcels
- 11
- registered freehold, median 36,658 m² (3.67 ha, 9.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Arrybreaga, from 2,001 m² (0.2 ha, 0.49 acres) to 245,299 m² (24.53 ha, 60.61 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 10 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 Arrybreaga 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
30 May 2025Conditional
a new house sub-structure consisting of foundations, rising walls and concrete floor slab, also Retention for a pump house over a bored well including a new site entrance and stone roadway and for Planning Permission to complete the house including a new effluent treatment system
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 25173
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 Arrybreaga.
Recorded monuments
- LI033-109 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In improved pasture 20m SE of a field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Garryheakin. Ring-barrow (LI033-110----) lies 140m to E, ring-barrows (LI033-135/137----) 150m to SE and earthwork (LI033-111002-) 140m to S. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 108; AP 4/3620) as a ring-barrow. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 7m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 108 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 April 2021
- LI033-110 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In improved pasture 30m S of a field boundary that marks the townland boundary with Garryheakin. Barrow (LI033-109----) lies 140m to W, ring-barrows (LI033-135/137----) 70m to S and earthwork (LI033-111002-) 120m to SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 107; AP 4/3620) as a ring-barrow. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 9m) on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 107 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 April 2021
- LI033-111001 Enclosure
Description
In improved pasture. Earthwork (LI033-111002-) lies 30m to N and barrows (LI033-135/137----) 70m to NE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.05; AP 4/3620) as an enclosure. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark (diam c. 52m) defined by a fosse on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. The monument is truncated at N by a linear field drain running NE-SW, at SE by a drain running NE-SW and at S by drains running NW-SE. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 106.05 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 April 2021
- LI033-111002 Earthwork
Description
In improved pasture. Enclosure (LI033-111001-) lies 30m to S and barrows (LI033-136/137----) to immediate E and SE. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.04; AP 4/3620) as an earthwork. Visible as a semi- circular cropmark (diam c. 85m) defined by a fosse from W-N-NE only on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. Barrow (LI033-135----) is recorded in E quadrant of interior. A linear field drain running NE-SW lies to immediate SE. Doubtful antiquity. See attached Bruff image labelled Bruff 106.04 and Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 14 April 2021
- LI033-135 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In improved pasture 100m S of the townland boundary with Garryheakin. One of three possible barrows (LI033-135/137----) located immediately N of a drainage ditch running NE-SW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.01; AP 4/3620) as a ring-barrow. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018 where it is intersected at N by a field bank running NW-SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 106.01. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 20 April 2021
- LI033-136 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In improved pasture 90m S of the townland boundary with Garryheakin. One of three possible barrows (LI033-135/137----) located immediately N of a drainage ditch running NE-SW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.02; AP 4/3620) as a ring-barrow. Visible as a circular-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 106.02. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 20 April 2021
- LI033-137 Barrow - unclassified
Description
In improved pasture 105m S of the townland boundary with Garryheakin. One of three possible barrows (LI033-135/137----) located immediately N of a drainage ditch running NE-SW. Not depicted on historic OSi maps. Identified by Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986 (Bruff 106.03; AP 4/3620) as a ring-barrow. Visible as a circular cropmark on OSi orthophoto taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimage dated 18/11/2018 where it is intersected in the N by a field bank running NW-SE. See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Bruff image showing monument labelled Bruff 106.03. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 20 April 2021
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Arrybreaga.
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 moderately high, moderately low, 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 Arrybreaga.
- 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 Arrybreaga with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Arrybreaga · Airí Bhréige
- Area
- 680,671 m² (68.07 ha, 168.2 acres)
- Civil parish
- Oola, and its townlands
- Barony
- Coonagh
- Electoral division
- Templebredon, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Templebredon electoral division: 588 people in 197 households; 91% of households own their home; 29% of homes were built since 2001; 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyneety, Garryheakin (Co. Tipperary), Garryheakin, Longstone (Co. Tipperary)
- Placenames
- Arrybreaga 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.