Carrig East
Townland in the civil parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Charraig Thoir
- Area
- 54.7 ha
- 135 acres
- Land parcels
- 31
- registered freehold, median 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
31 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Carrig East, from 70 m² to 183,378 m² (18.34 ha, 45.31 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 30 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 Carrig East 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
21 Feb 2026Conditional
construction of an access road, 4 No. two-storey dwelling houses, 4 no. garages, 4 no. on-site wastewater treatment systems, connections to public services and all ancillary site development works
Permission, 4 homes · Limerick County Council, 2660186
2 May 2023Conditional
the construction of an access road and 4 no. dwelling houses, 4 no. garages, 4 no. on-site wastewater treatment systems, connections to public services and all ancillary site development works on site of 0.87 hectare
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 2360275
8 Dec 2022Conditional
the change of use from playschool extension to residential extension(kitchen/dining) and for permission to carry out renovations comprising of revised elevations and associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221317
12 Aug 2021Conditional
the decommission of the existing septic tank and percolation area and replacement with a new wastewater treatment system serving the existing dwelling
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211151
11 Aug 2021Conditional
construction of a dormer bungalow, detached garage, new entrance, wastewater treatment system and ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211144
9 May 2019Conditional
(a) construction of a roof over the existing cubicle area, (b) construction of a new entrance and closing of an existing entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 19459
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 Carrig East.
Recorded monuments
- LI004-016 Ringfort - rath
Description
In pasture, on a gentle W-facing slope, with good views across the River Shannon estuary to N and the surrounding landscape from N-E-S. Enclosure (LI004-024----) is c. 155m to NE. Recorded as an enclosure by Westropp (1907, 381). Depicted on the revised 1924 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oval-shaped enclosure (approx. 38m E-W; 32m N-S). Visible as a tree-lined monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020
- LI004-024 Enclosure
Description
On low-lying ground, in pasture, overlooking the River Shannon approx. 2km to NE. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Enclosure (LI004-016----) lies c. 155m to SW. Identified as an enclosure on aerial photography (OS 740, photo 0685). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (approx. diam. 34m) on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. See attached Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 19 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Carrig 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).
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
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_877 (ZIP).
- 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 Carrig East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Carrig East · An Charraig Thoir
- Area
- 546,725 m² (54.67 ha, 135.1 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilkeedy, and its townlands
- Barony
- Pubblebrien
- Electoral division
- Carrig, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Carrig electoral division: 658 people in 211 households; 92% of households own their home; 19% of homes were built since 2001; 3% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballybrown, Carrig West, Carrigogunnel, Newtown, Tervoe
- Placenames
- Carrig East 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.