Croaghane

19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghane, from 99 m² to 454,208 m² (45.42 ha, 112.24 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Croaghane 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.

• 28 Oct 2025Conditional

  the change of use and extension of an existing garage and open-sided storage area to form a single-storey, two-bedroom apartment unit (68 sq.m), to be used in conjunction with the existing residential dwelling on the site, together with all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2561103

• 23 Jun 2023Conditional

  a single storey extension to the front of existing bungalow with all associated internal and elevation changes and all associated site works. Retention Permission is also sought for the retention of reorientated garage and open sided storage to the rear of the garage and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360441

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Croaghane.

Recorded monuments

• LI010-063 Road - road/trackway
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle ENE-facing slope. Trackway takes the form of a linear terrace (wth 4m) cut into the up-slope (D 0.55m) on the W side and raised above the down-slope (H 0.4m) on the E side. It extends NW from a field boundary for c. 27m before turning N for a further c. 79m where it terminates at a recently-cut field drain. The trackway is grass-covered throughout. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-064001 Enclosure
  Description

  In pasture, at foot of E-facing slope. Roughly oval area (142m NE-SW; 93m NW-SE) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) SE->NE, bank levelled NE-SE but visible as cropmark on aerial photograph (CUCAP AVQ072); external fosse very indistinct but most apparent WSW->WNW (D c. 0.2m; Wth c. 1m). Enclosure crossed by field boundary on SW-NE axis; another field boundary travels SE from latter, crossing enclosing element to SE. Interior slopes down gently to E reflecting gradient of surrounding terrain; it is under grass as is enclosing element. Low section of bank to SE (Wth c. 5.6m) may be entrance; extending out from this is linear feature defined on SW side by low bank (H c. 0.25m) and on NE side by scarped edge (H 0.9m); this travels 31m until truncated by field boundary. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-064002 Cairn - unclassified
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. Cairn of stones visible on aerial photograph (St Joseph AVQ 72) has been removed. A slight rise in ground level is only possible evident trace of this feature. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI010-064003 Barrow - ring-barrow
  Description

  In pasture, on ESE-facing slope. Oval grass-covered mound (H 0.65m; 17.3m N-S; 20.7m E-W) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.8m); the barrow has been truncated on its SE side by a field boundary. 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 Croaghane.

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).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Croaghane, about 1 in 10 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_408 (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.

No address of the register names Croaghane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Croaghane · An Cruachán

Area

666,974 m² (66.7 ha, 164.81 acres)

Civil parish

Robertstown, and its townlands

Barony

Shanid

Electoral division

Shanagolden, the unit of the census

Census 2022

922 people lived in 370 households in the Shanagolden electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardaneer, Corgrig, Knockpatrick, Shanagolden Demesne, Sroolane

Placenames

Croaghane 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.