Cloonsherick
Cloonsherick is a townland in the civil parish of Mahoonagh, barony of Glenquin, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Cluain Séaraic.
- Area
- 111.4 ha
- 275 acres
- Land parcels
- 42
- registered freehold, median 4,305 m² (0.43 ha, 1.06 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 10
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
42 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cloonsherick, from 55 m² to 142,382 m² (14.24 ha, 35.18 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 19 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.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Cloonsherick 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
9 Oct 2025Conditional
Extension of Duration for Planning Ref. 20/140: construction of two no. poultry houses, soiled water storage tanks and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Extension of duration · Limerick County Council, 257028
3 Jul 2025Conditional
existing as constructed agricultural machinery store (change of design from that previously granted under planning ref. 21388) and Permission to construct an extension to the existing as constructed agricultural machinery store. Planning Permission is also sought for the construction of an agricultural shed for the purpose of storing machinery and bedding associated with the existing poultry enterprise and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 25223
19 May 2025Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area, relocation of land drain on-site and all ancillary site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2560465
22 Apr 2025Conditional
the construction of a slatted shed incorporating feed passages, straw bedded lying area and roofed cattle handling facility within the curtilage of a protected monument
Permission · Limerick County Council, 25124
17 Sept 2024Conditional
the renovation and extension of an existing house to include elevation changes to existing house, the demolition of existing extension and part of existing house, removal of existing chimney and the construction of a new garage and all ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460923
13 Sept 2023Conditional
a change of use from foods warehouse with cold storage rooms to a light engineering workshop, change of site boundaries from that previously granted ref. 15/83 and all associated works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 23451
30 Jun 2023Conditional
construction of a new dwelling house, garage, entrance, driveway, packaged wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all ancillary site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 2360466
20 Oct 2022Conditional
the construction of a hard stand and base for poultry unit granted permission under planning ref:20/140 using concrete, stone, blocks and tiles from the construction industry. A Certificate of Registration(COR) will be applied to Limerick City & County Council for this activity
Permission · Limerick County Council, 221128
30 Mar 2021Conditional
construction of 2no. agricultural sheds for the purpose of storing machinery and bedding associated with existing poultry enterprise and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 21388
19 Feb 2020Conditional
construction of two no. poultry houses, soiled water storage tanks and carry out all associated ancillary site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20140
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 Cloonsherick.
Recorded monuments
- LI044-069 Ringfort - rath
Description
On edge of farmyard with pasture field to NW. Circular area (diam. 45m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.55m) with external fosse. Fosse re-cut as field drain S->N and excavated material piled up on external face of bank. Fosse infilled N->S where site bounded by farm trackway and yard. Interior of site is level and covered by mature trees; it contains a chicken coop and dog kennel. 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 Cloonsherick.
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
- At the centre of the townland of Cloonsherick, about 1 in 20 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 low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_467 (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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Cloonsherick with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Cloonsherick · Cluain Séaraic
- Area
- 1,113,844 m² (111.38 ha, 275.24 acres)
- Civil parish
- Mahoonagh, and its townlands
- Barony
- Glenquin
- Electoral division
- Monagay, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 1,260 people lived in 446 households in the Monagay electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 37% of homes were built since 2001. 8% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballintober East, Ballintober West, Camas, Moanleana
- Placenames
- Cloonsherick 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.