Darranstown

109 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Darranstown, from 117 m² to 376,024 m² (37.6 ha, 92.92 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 35 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 Darranstown 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.

• 9 Aug 2026N/a

  a) an existing detached ancillary shed serving to the north of the dwelling. b) an existing ancillary biomass boiler room attached to the south side of the existing garage and serving the dwelling. c) the existing natural stone render finish to the east elevation of the dwelling. d) Permission for the demolition of an existing single-storey conservatory to the south of the dwelling, the construction of a two-storey extension. e) Permission for a new pedestrian entrance gate within the existing roadside boundary. f) All associated site development and ancillary works necessary to facilitate the proposed development

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2660912

• 21 May 2026N/a

  the construction of a vehicular entrance , dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660564

• 28 Jan 2026N/a

  the construction of a vehicular entrance , dwelling house, garage, domestic wastewater treatment system with polishing filter together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2660078

• 13 Feb 2023Conditional

  conservatory to dwelling house and permission retention of garage and out house

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2390

• 14 Sept 2022Conditional

  the construction of a vehicular entrance, dwelling house, domestic garage, septic tank & percolation area together with all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 22997

• 22 Feb 2021N/a

  construction of an extension to existing poultry house, construction of one no. new poultry house, feed silos, machinery store, control room, soiled water storage tank, storm water attenuation tank and carry out all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21193

• 17 Feb 2021Conditional

  removal of existing portacabins and containers and diesel tanks, and construction of a machinery storage shed with associated detached single storey staff welfare building, and associated site development works including erection of diesel storage tanks, construction of a service yard and wash bay, decommission existing septic tank and effluent treatment plant, and construction of a new replacement effluent treatment system and tertiary treatment and percolation area, and all associated site development works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21170

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 Darranstown.

Recorded monuments

• LI048-014 Mound
  Description

  In pasture, 190m SW of Darranstown House and 115m N of Knockaunnacreeha. Not marked on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map or the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch. Depicted on the Cassini ed. OSi 6-inch map as a small mound annotated 'Mote'. Levelled monument visible as a small circular cropmark on OSi orthophotograph taken between 2005-12. Possible trace of raised circular area of dry ground visible on Google Earth orthoimage dated 26/04/2015. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 6 August 2021

• LI048-104 Earthwork
  Description

  In reclaimed pasture 120m W of the townland boundary with Balline. Not marked on historic OSi maps. Identified as a circular cropmark from Google Earth orthoimage dated 29/07/2010. Faint trace of circular cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 where it is surrounded by drainage ditches. No surface remains visible on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date of upload: 29 September 2021

• LI048-115 Moated site
  Description

  In reclaimed grassland with stream 75m to E. Cropmark of square-shaped area (approx. dims. 40m N-S x 39m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse visible on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13 and earlier OSi orthoimages. Cropmark of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 14/09/2019 and 19/03/2015. See attached Google Earth orthophotos taken 14/09/2019 and 19/03/2015 Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien Date of upload: 2 June 2020

Architectural heritage

• House, 1820–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached five-bay two-storey house, built in 1834, comprising porch to front (east) elevation, lean-to to rear (west) and extension to north elevation c. 1927. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystack and cast-iron rainwater goods. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls having render quoins. Square-headed openings with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted stone sills. Square-headed opening to porch having glazed overlight over timber panelled door with flanking sidelights. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north-east having pitched corrugated-metal roof. Painted rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors. Three-bay single-storey outbuilding to north having coursed rubble sandstone walls. Square-headed opening with timber fittings. Square headed openings with timber lintels and replacement timber doors. Pair of square-profile rendered piers with carved caps, single-leaf metal gate and rendered boundary walls.

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 Darranstown, 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 low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Darranstown.

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 Darranstown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Darranstown · Baile an Dioróntaigh

Area

2,950,031 m² (295 ha, 728.97 acres)

Civil parish

Emlygrennan, and its townlands

Barony

Coshlea

Electoral division

Emlygrennan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

850 people lived in 300 households in the Emlygrennan electoral division. 88% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Balline, Ballinscaula, Ballinvana, Bishopsfield, Cush, Knocktoran, Martinstown

Placenames

Darranstown 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.