Athea Lower

55 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Athea Lower, from 38 m² to 217,734 m² (21.77 ha, 53.8 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 37 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 Athea Lower 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.

• 10 Nov 2022N/a

  the retention as constructed a two storey and single storey extensions to the rear of the dwelling house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221197

• 27 May 2022Conditional

  a domestic garage- utility store with a first floor on her site

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22602

• 17 Feb 2022Conditional

  (a) existing front bay window extension to existing dwelling house, (b) 2 no. domestic sheds along with all associated works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 22175

• 12 Jun 2020Conditional

  domestic garage with first floor, utility store, boundary walls to north and east of site, all within revised site boundaries to her site

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 20500

• 9 Jun 2020Conditional

  construction of a milking parlour, dairy, plant room, drafting area, collecting yard, slatted tanks and concrete apron

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20486

• 29 Mar 2019Conditional

  construction of a new dwelling house, detached garage, site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19304

• 25 Sept 2018Conditional

  a 10 year planning permission for the laying of 4.85km of underground electrical cables, associated ducting, associated cable draw pits, associated electrical infrastructure, and excavation/trenching works. The underground electrical cable route is primarily on public road with sections on other road and through pastureland. Details of the underground cables and extent of the works are shown on the planning application drawings. The proposed underground electricity cable will connect the permitted Beennanaspuck Wind Farm (Kerry County Council Planning Ref. 14/571; An Bord Pleanala Planning Ref. PL08.245464) and permitted Toberatooreen Wind Farm (Kerry County Council Planning Ref. 12/431 and 14/854; An Bord Pleanala Planning Ref. PL08/242170), which are located in County Kerry, to the National Electricity Grid via the Athea substation in County Limerick (Limerick City and County Council Planning Ref. 17/1228). The provision of a new substation compound with a single storey substation building and associated services. The planning application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) and Natura Impact Statement (NIS)

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18934

• 21 Sept 2018Conditional

  (PLANNING PRMISSION IS SOUGHT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS) CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE TOWNLANDS OF TOBERATOOREEN, KILBAHA NORTH, KILBAHA MIDDLE, KILNAHA SOUTH, GORTDROMAGOWNAGH AND BEENNANASPUCK IN CO. KERRY. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF 5.9 KM OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLES, ASSOCIATED DUCTING, ASSOCIATED CABLE DRAW PITS, ASSOCIATED ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND EXCAVATION/TRENCHING WORKS. THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE ROUTE IS PRIMARILY ON PUBLIC ROADS WITH SECTIONS ON OTHER ROAD AND THROUGH PASTURELAND. DETAILS OF THE UNDERGROUND CABLES AND EXTENT OF THE WORKS ARE SHOWN ON THE PLANNING APPLICATION DRAWINGS. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUNFD ELECTRICITY CABLE WILL CONNECT THE PERMITTED BEENNANASPUCK WIND FARM (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF. 14/571; AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF PL08.245464) AND PERMITTED TOBERATOOREEN WIND FARM (KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL PLANNING REF. 12/431 AND 14/854; AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF. PLC08.242170), WHICH ARE LOCATED IN COUNTY KERRY, THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID VIA THE ATHEA SUBSTATION IN COUNTY LIMERICK. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR) AND NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS).

  Permission, 1 home · Kerry County Council, 18923

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  FOR A 10 YEARS PLANNING PERMISSION, TO CONSTRUCT AN UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INFRASTRUCTURE. THE PROPOSED UNDERGROUND ELECTRICITY CABLE WILL CONNECT THE PERMITTED BEENNANASPUCK WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 14/571), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNNG REF. PL08.245464) AND PERMITTED TOBERATOOREEN WIND FARM (KERRY CO. COUNCIL PLANNING REF. NO. 12/431 AND 14/854), (AN BORD PLEANALA PLANNING REF. PL08.242170), WHICH ARE LOCATED IN CO. KERRY, TO THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY GRID VIA THE ATHEA SUBSTATION IN CO. LIMERICK. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE LAYING OF 9.95 KM OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICIAL CABLES, ASSOCIATED DUCTING, ASSOCIATED CABLE DRAW PITS, ELECTRICAL CABINETS, AND EXCAVATION / TRENCHING WORKS. THE UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL CABLE ROUTE IS PRIMARILY ON PUBLIC ROAD WITH SECTIONS ON OTHER ROAD. DETAILS OF THE UNDERGROUND CABLES AND EXTENT OF THE WORKS ARE SHOWN ON THE PLANNING APPLICATION DRAWINGS. THE PLANNING APPLICATION IS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT (EIAR), AND ALSO THE PLANNING APPLICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT

  Permission · Kerry County Council, 171298

• 21 Feb 2017Conditional

  the demolition of an existing dwellinghouse and construction of a three bedroom bungalow, septic tank, percolation area, proprietary wastewater treatment system and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17156

• 16 Feb 2017Conditional

  retention of an extension to our existing bungalow dwelling house, the conversion of the existing attic space and the addition of a bay window to the rear elevation

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 17134

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Athea Lower.

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1840–1880 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay single-storey former farmhouse, built c. 1860. Now in use as agricultural store house. Hipped slate roof with exposed white washed rubble stone eaves course. Artificial slate to rear (south) pitch. White washed rubble stone walls throughout. Square-headed window openings with dressed limestone sills throughout, having six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows to eastern bay of front (north) elevation. Cast-iron two-over-two pane casement windows to front elevation, cast-iron and timber casement windows to rear elevation. Square-headed door openings throughout, having timber battened door to front elevation. Later double-leaf galvanised-steel door to western bay of rear elevation. Later farm outbuildings and sheds to south and south-east.

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 Athea Lower, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_318 (ZIP).

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

Name

Athea Lower · Áth an tSléibhe Íochtarach

Area

2,240,877 m² (224.09 ha, 553.73 acres)

Civil parish

Rathronan, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Glenagower, the unit of the census

Census 2022

540 people lived in 201 households in the Glenagower electoral division. 83% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athea Upper, Derreen, Gortdromagownagh (Co. Kerry), Kilbaha Middle (Co. Kerry), Kilbaha South (Co. Kerry), Templeathea West

Placenames

Athea Lower 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.