Conigar
Conigar is a townland in the civil parish of Lismakeery, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is An Coinicéar.
- Area
- 108.2 ha
- 267 acres
- Land parcels
- 28
- registered freehold, median 4,026 m² (0.4 ha, 0.99 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 6
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
28 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Conigar, from 180 m² to 236,707 m² (23.67 ha, 58.49 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 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 Conigar 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
6 Jun 2025Conditional
(1) the construction of extensions to dwelling house, new roof on dwelling house, conversion of attic space to storage areas, balcony, modifications to elevations, change of use of existing store to be part of dwelling house including the construction of a swimming pool, construction of a shed, change of roof from flat roof to pitched roof on existing shed and all ancillary site works (2) the decommissioning of existing septic tank and the installation of a new replacement wastewater treatment system with percolation area and all associated site works
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2560532
21 Aug 2023Conditional
(ref. no. of outline permission 22/1042) the construction of a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Permission consequent · Limerick County Council, 23416
26 Sept 2022Conditional
the construction of a dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system and all associated site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 221042
1 Dec 2020Conditional
construction of a slatted cubicle house and concrete apron
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201261
6 Mar 2019Conditional
the temporary use of a mobile home connected to existing septic tank, on site during the reconstruction of dwelling house as granted in planning permission 17/1173 and all associated works
Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19194
14 Dec 2017Conditional
reconstruction of fire damaged dwelling with minor elevational changes, and to also construct an extension to the rear of existing dwelling and a new front boundary wall
Permission · Limerick County Council, 171173
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 Conigar.
Recorded monuments
- LI019-161 Ringfort - rath
Description
In low-lying gently undulating pasture. Oval area (c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with intervening fosse (W 1.4m). Inner bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.95m) best preserved NNE->SW. Outer bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m) survives NNE->S where amount of loose stone strewn about suggest that it was formerly stone faced. Fosse, heavily masked by overgrowth, is bridged by causeway (W 3.5m) at SW. From S->SW there is a noticeable concave kink in outline of enclosure where inner bank and fosse curve gently inwards. Interior is clogged with overgrowth. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
- LI019-168 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on gentle E-facing slope in area of outcropping limestone. Roughly rectangular depressed area (26.2m N-S; 23.6m E-W) defined by inner scarp edge (H 0.26m) ENE->SW and by dry-stone field boundary SW->ENE. Interior, covered with thistles and nettles, slopes down to the ENE. Disused quarry adjacent to E. 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 Conigar.
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 Conigar, about 1 in 5 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 low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_511 (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
- Conigar, Askeaton7 sales
The townland
- Name
- Conigar · An Coinicéar
- Area
- 1,082,417 m² (108.24 ha, 267.47 acres)
- Civil parish
- Lismakeery, and its townlands
- Barony
- Connello Lower
- Electoral division
- Lismakeery, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 479 people lived in 167 households in the Lismakeery electoral division. 97% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Altavilla, Ballinloughane, Creeves, Liffane, Lismakeery, Milltown North, Milltown South
- Placenames
- Conigar 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.