Aughalin
Townland in the civil parish of Clonelty, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick; in Irish Áith Liní
- Area
- 230.7 ha
- 570 acres
- Land parcels
- 72
- registered freehold, median 4,656 m² (0.47 ha, 1.15 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
72 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Aughalin, from 166 m² to 177,411 m² (17.74 ha, 43.84 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 24 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 Aughalin 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
12 Aug 2026N/a
a new agricultural storage shed and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 26188
21 Jul 2026N/a
construction of a new dwelling house, detached outbuilding, new entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater system and percolation area, and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660830
29 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of a storey and a half rear extension to an existing dwelling house , the construction of an agricultural building for the storage of plant and materials ancillary to agricultural use and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560985
30 Jun 2023Conditional
changes made to their existing house from the design granted planning under planning reference 99/31. Changes include window and door modifications to elevations, roof modification at entrance hall, omission of chimneys, inclusion of covered area below rear deck, and inclusion of lower level storerooms and all ancillary works. Retention permission is also sought for a garage constructed to the rear of the house with adjoining glass house
Retention · Limerick County Council, 23353
21 Oct 2022Conditional
the construction of an agricultural field entrance gate, and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221138
30 Aug 2021Conditional
the construction of a two storey dwelling, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged waste water treatment system with eco-flo filter and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211215
26 Jun 2020Conditional
alterations and renovations to existing dwelling house comprising construction of a single storey extension to both east and west sides of existing dwelling house, construction of 2no. single storey extensions to front(south facing) elevation. Permission is also sought to demolish existing domestic garage and construct a new detached domestic garage and carry out all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20557
25 Oct 2019Conditional
amendments to previously approved plans ref. 18/1109 to include changes to window sizes on elevations, change of use from first floor storage area to habitable space, the installation of roof lights, windows to first floor east and west elevations and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 191053
15 Nov 2018Conditional
a storey and a half dwelling, detached garage, the installation of a waste water treatment plant, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 181109
14 Aug 2017Conditional
the renovation of existing dwelling house, including demolition of existing rear extension and construction of dormer extension and all associated ancillary works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 17767
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 Aughalin.
Recorded monuments
- LI037-015 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 21m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.4m). Interior has been levelled against natural gradient so that N side is slightly lower than surrounding field level. Septic tank of recently constructed house located 2m outside bank at W side. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Roughly circular area (37m N-S; 43m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 0.25m; Wth 1.4m) with external fosse (Wth 1.6m) and external bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.45m). Interior level and entire site is under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-018 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 23m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.8m) with external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 0.8m). Enclosing element partially covered by overgrowth, otherwise heavily poached by cattle. Field boundary, running E-W, crosses fosse on S side. Interior partially under grass, partially covered by overgrowth. At centre is low mound (H 0.2m; diam. 3m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-019 Enclosure
Description
In level pasture on crest E-W running ridge. Rectangular slightly raised area (24m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.2m) with an external fosse (Base Wth. 1.00m; D 0.2m). N-S running field boundary skirts outer line of fosse on W side of site. Circular raised area (diam. c. 4m) defined by scarped edge (H 0.2m) at centre of interior. Interior clear of overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-020 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 41m) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks. Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) has been removed ESE->SSE. External bank (int. H 0.9m; ext. H 0.35m) and intervening fosse (Wth 1.4m) present WSW->ESE. Slightly raised circular area (diam. 8m) at centre of interior. Otherwise interior, which is under pasture, slopes down gently to S. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-021 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on steep S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as roughly circular embanked enclosure on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field. However, it is still evident as sub-circular area (29m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by low rise (int. H 0.05m; ext. H 0.1m) NW->SE with an external fosse (D 0.15m; Wth 0.4m) NW->SE. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element SW->NW; field boundaries which abutted site at N and SE have been removed. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-022 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Oval area (51m NW-SE; 40m SW-NE) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.25m; ext. H 0.85m), with an external fosse (D 0.3m; Wth 1.4m) N->E. Bank is covered by dense overgrowth but gap (Wth 2m) apparent at ESE, and stone facing on external face of bank evident at ENE. Composition of enclosing element appears to be identical to surrounding field boundaries which abut bank at N, W, SW and SE. There are rock outcrops in SE quadrant of interior, and amongst these are two slabs (L 1.30m) laid on edge and parallel (0.6m apart) to each other which appear to be deliberate set in this position. Interior under rough pasture. Enclosure is shown covered by trees on 1841 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-092 Ringfort - rath
Description
In level pasture, on terrace of steep W-facing slope. Enclosure has been levelled and incorporated into pasture field but is still evident as sub-circular area (diam. c. 34m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.1m), with external fosse (D 0.25m; Wth 2m) SSW->ESE. A field boundary truncates enclosing element NE->ESE. 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 Aughalin.
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 10 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 Aughalin.
- 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 Aughalin with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Aughalin · Áith Liní
- Area
- 2,307,082 m² (230.71 ha, 570.09 acres)
- Civil parish
- Clonelty, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Ballynoe West, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Ballynoe West electoral division: 336 people in 117 households; 90% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrown, Ballybrown, Cloncagh, Duckstown, Gorteen West, Kilcolman East, Kilcolman West, Kilgolban, Kiltanna
- Placenames
- Aughalin 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.