Coonagh East
Townland in the civil parish of Killeely, barony of North Liberties, Co. Limerick; in Irish Cuanach Thoir
- Area
- 108.8 ha
- 269 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 2,180 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres)
- Zoning
- R2
- Existing Residential
- Planning
- 12
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Coonagh East, from 10 m² to 164,371 m² (16.44 ha, 40.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 36 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
- R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 60 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - P1Agriculture
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 37 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G5Open Space and Recreation (Mixed/general 'green'/recreation/conservation, other)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 4 parcels The zoning objective in the plan - G3Semi Natural Open Space (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 2 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
15 Jan 2026N/a
the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, garage, domestic proprietary waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660024
16 Sept 2025Conditional
the construction of 2 No. Stables and attached fodder store, along with the development of new access gateway and boundary wall along the entire section of the lands which front Coonagh Road
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560929
28 Jul 2025N/a
the development of lands at Coonagh East, Coonagh Co Limerick, comprising the construction of 2 No Stables and attached fodder store, along with the development of new access gateway and boundary wall along the entire section of the lands
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560735
6 Feb 2025N/a
the construction of a new vehicular entrance and driveway, re-use of existing derelict house for habitable accommodation and construction of an extension to this forming a single dwelling house, installation of proprietary domestic waste water treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560088
15 Jun 2024Conditional
construction of a new single storey extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling; along with minor internal modifications and all ancillary site works.
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460593
23 Oct 2023Conditional
the construction of a new single storey side and rear extension to ex bungalow dwelling, new front porch and rooflights to main roof, along with modifications to ex house
Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360773
14 Aug 2023Refused
the construction of a two storey dwelling ,detached garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all associated site works
Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2360573
27 Jul 2021Refused
the proposed partial change of use of an existing Sports and Social Clubhouse to a Preschool for seasonal Early Years service
Permission · Limerick County Council, 211064
12 Mar 2021Refused
construction of a dwelling house, detached garage, entrance, waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Limerick County Council, 21299
30 Oct 2020Conditional
a vehicular entrance to his residence
Permission · Limerick County Council, 201119
13 Feb 2020Conditional
construction of an extension to the rear of dwelling house, amend front porch area, external insulation and fenestration changes to all elevations, remove existing chimney, reduce overhang of existing roof and re-slate, an all associated site works
Permission · Limerick County Council, 20104
1 Feb 2019Conditional
changing the garage for domestic use and permission is sought to upgrade septic tank/percolation area to proprietary wastewater system
Retention · Limerick County Council, 1982
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
- Special Area of Conservation: Lower River Shannon SAC 002165
- Special Protection Area: River Shannon and River Fergus Estuaries SPA 004077
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Fergus Estuary And Inner Shannon, North Shore 002048
Recorded monuments
- LI005-002 Ringfort - rath
Description
In gently undulating pasture, overlooking the River Shannon, c. 870m to SW. Depicted on the 1841 ed. OS 6-inch map as a circular-shaped univallate ringfort (approx. diam. 34m). Recorded by O’ Donovan in 1841, ‘Cahereen is a circular fort about two chains in diameter, 24ft high composed partly of stones and earth’ (OSNB, 245). Visible as a tree-lined monument on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-13 and Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 June 2020
- LI005-056 Enclosure
Description
On low-lying poorly drained pasture, c. 715m N of the River Shannon. Not depicted on OS historic mapping. Identified by Celie O'Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation, as a large oval-shaped cropmark on OSi 1:10k aerial photography (Ref. OS2/746, Photo No. 0793) taken 1985. Visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (approx. dims. 37m NE-SW x 31m NW-SE) on Digital Globe aerial orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 19/11/2019. A number of linear features possibly drainage channels are also visible to E. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 24 June 2020
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Coonagh 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 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map; parts are made ground and water.
- Terrain model
- LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_906 (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 Coonagh East with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Coonagh East · Cuanach Thoir
- Area
- 1,087,709 m² (108.77 ha, 268.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Killeely, and its townlands
- Barony
- North Liberties
- Electoral division
- Limerick North Rural, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Limerick North Rural electoral division: 7,364 people in 2,788 households; 63% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Caherdavin, Clondrinagh, Clonmacken, Coonagh West, Meelick (Co. Clare)
- Placenames
- Coonagh 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.