# Croaghane, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Cruachán. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 666,974 m² (66.7 ha, 164.81 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Robertstown, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/robertstown.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Shanagolden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 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. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32302 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120808 - Centre: latitude 52.590654, longitude -9.102033 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 19 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Croaghane, from 99 m² to 454,208 m² (45.42 ha, 112.24 acres); 26 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1660091: 454,208 m² (45.42 ha, 112.24 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660091.md - Parcel 1663692: 74,707 m² (7.47 ha, 18.46 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1663692.md - Parcel 1660090: 62,479 m² (6.25 ha, 15.44 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660090.md - Parcel 1660089: 43,275 m² (4.33 ha, 10.69 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1660089.md - Parcel 1631434: 8,012 m² (0.8 ha, 1.98 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631434.md - Parcel 1639208: 6,102 m² (0.61 ha, 1.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639208.md - Parcel 1657979: 2,749 m² (0.27 ha, 0.68 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1657979.md - Parcel 1590462: 2,591 m² (0.26 ha, 0.64 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1590462.md - Parcel 1624929: 2,530 m² (0.25 ha, 0.63 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1624929.md - Parcel 1622332: 2,214 m² (0.22 ha, 0.55 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1622332.md - Parcel 5563018: 2,173 m² (0.22 ha, 0.54 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5563018.md - Parcel 3268303: 1,639 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/3268303.md - Parcel 1612784: 1,386 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612784.md - Parcel 4998615: 1,377 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4998615.md - Parcel 1647874: 1,368 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647874.md - Parcel 4998618: 1,036 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/4998618.md - Parcel 1589524: 704 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589524.md - Parcel 1650903: 521 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650903.md - Parcel 1631436: 99 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1631436.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) 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. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 2 applications, newest first. - 28 Oct 2025, Limerick County Council 2561103: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2561103/0 - 23 Jun 2023, Limerick County Council 2360441: Conditional. Permission. 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. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2360441/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Croaghane. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI010-063: Road - road/trackway, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-063----. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-064001-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-064002-. 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, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-064003-. 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 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). ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Croaghane. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - 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: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - 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, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_408.zip (ZIP). - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. 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. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/croaghane.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/croaghane.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/croaghane.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Croaghane with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ardaneer: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ardaneer.md - Corgrig: https://everytownland.com/limerick/corgrig.md - Knockpatrick: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockpatrick.md - Shanagolden Demesne: https://everytownland.com/limerick/shanagolden-demesne.md - Sroolane: https://everytownland.com/limerick/sroolane.md 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. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/croaghane - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/croaghane