Athlacca South

43 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Athlacca South, from 158 m² to 255,841 m² (25.58 ha, 63.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 29 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Athlacca South 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.

• 8 Apr 2026N/a

  the existing extensions to the dwelling house and is applying for full planning permission for an additional extension to the existing dwelling together with all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660399

• 16 Jul 2024Conditional

  a change of house design and site layout plan from that previously granted under Planning Ref. 22/9

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 24295

• 7 Jan 2022Conditional

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

  Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 229

• 24 Jan 2018Conditional

  construction of a new single storey dwelling house, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter, bored well, entrance and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 1861

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 Athlacca South.

Recorded monuments

• LI039-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In rough pasture, 398m SE of Morningstar River and 480m SW of Glebe House. Annotated ‘Monaraha Fort’ on OSi historic maps. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as circular shaped platform defined by a scarp and intersected at SE by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Shown on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as roughly oval-shaped platform (dims. c. 29m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by a scarp, truncated from SSE-S by a post-1700 field boundary running NE-SW. Outline of levelled monument visible as an oval-shaped cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12 and on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 12 April 2021

• LI039-013 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  Ó Danachair (1955, 209) recorded the following details about St John the Baptist's Well; ‘This well no longer exists; it is said that it changed position when desecrated, and is now on the roadside and used as a pump, about 75 yards from its original site. "This is a holy well where the inhabitants perform or give rounds on all Good Fridays and Sunday mornings'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-014001 Church
  Description

  No surface remains of medieval church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Present C of I church built in 1813 on site of the medieval church. Westropp (1904-5, 432) recorded the following details about Athlacca: 'Athleketh was held by Maurice f. Gerald, 1285 (C.S.P.I, p. 285); Aylecach, 1291. Adam de Leyns, parson of Allekagh, gave land at Adare to the priory at that place, 1292 (ib., iv.), 1306. Athlacath, in Ocarbry (Plea R. 32 of xxxv Ed. I.). Ric. de Aspale was rector, 1318 (ib., 116 of xi Ed. II, m. 45). The Sheriff and Mayor, and John Gower, of Alacagh, are to collect cattle, &c, for the army against O'Breen and Macomarth, of Tothemon, 1377 (Close R.). In 1394 Ric. Bondwill, a priest, had defrauded the church of Athlacath of 15 m. Tho. Hunt had held living for two years without ordination, &c. (Cal. Papal L., iv., p. 471). Ahaleacagh dedicated to St. John the Baptist, 1410. Ardlackagh, 1633 (Map, D.S. (A), 45). Site - The I. C. church was built on the old site, 1813; and burned by "Captain Rock," 1822. Monuments of the Webbs and Lacys 1632'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-014002 Graveyard
  Description

  Present C of I church built in 1813 on site of the medieval church (LI039-014001-) which stands in centre of rectangular shaped graveyard (approx. dims. 78m N-S x 50m E-W) enclosed by a post-1700 stone wall with entrance gate at N. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 May 2019

• LI039-115 Water mill - unclassified
  Description

  The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 David Lacy of Athlacca an Irish Papist was the owner in Athlacca of 'a Mill an orchard and twoe good tatch houses, with a Castle [LI039-113---]' (Simington 1938, 126). 'Old Tuck Mill' depicted on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map may have been built on site of or incorporated medieval mill of Athlacca. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 30 April 2021

Architectural heritage

• Athlacca Church, church/chapel, 1820–1825 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding remains of Church of Ireland church, built 1823, comprising three-stage square-plan tower and remains of nave to west. Hexagonal stone spire having cast-iron ball finial. Roughly dressed sandstone walls with cut limestone stringcourses. Pointed arch openings to third stage having dressed sandstone voussoirs and stone louvers. Round-headed openings to second stage with dressed sandstone voussoirs and stone louvers. Shallow pointed arch opening to north elevation having limestone label moulding and cut limestone surround, now blocked up, but in use as a grotto to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Graveyard to site.

• Glebe House, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, gate lodge, 1800–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former glebe house, built c. 1810, with porch to front (south) elevation, two-bay two-storey extension to rear (north) elevation. Hipped slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with render plinth course and quoins. Render cornice, roundels and panels to porch. Square-headed openings having painted stone sills and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows. Camber-headed openings to basement east and west elevations having fixed windows and cast-iron sill guards. Round-headed openings to porch, east and west elevations, with glazed overlights over fixed windows. Round-headed opening having render hoodmoulding, keystone, impost course, glazed overlight over half-glazed timber panelled double-leaf doors. U-plan outbuildings to rear courtyard comprising single-storey ranges. Pitched slate and corrugated-iron roofs with render over brick chimneystacks. Rendered walls. Square-headed openings with timber casement windows and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having timber panelled door. L-plan rendered steps to outbuildings. Detached two-bay single-storey former gate lodge to north, having recessed bay to east elevation. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack. Rendered walls. Square-headed opening to east having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Square-headed opening to front (south) elevation having timber battened door. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to south with double-leaf cast-iron gates and rendered boundary walls having render plinth courses and copings.

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

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility 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 Athlacca South.

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.

No address of the register names Athlacca South with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Athlacca South · An tÁth Leacach Theas

Area

1,264,050 m² (126.41 ha, 312.35 acres)

Civil parish

Athlacca, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Athlacca, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Athlacca electoral division: 402 people in 156 households; 80% of households own their home; 23% of homes were built since 2001; 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Athlacca North, Cloonbrien, Dromacummer East, Glenma, Howardstown South, Rathcannon

Placenames

Athlacca South 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.