Deegerty
Deegerty is a townland in the civil parish of Kilcornan, barony of Kenry, Co. Limerick. Its name in Irish is Na Dígirtí.
- Area
- 87.6 ha
- 216 acres
- Land parcels
- 23
- registered freehold, median 6,418 m² (0.64 ha, 1.59 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 2
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
23 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Deegerty, from 38 m² to 219,292 m² (21.93 ha, 54.19 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 23 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 Deegerty 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 Mar 2025Conditional
a detached garage structure and all ancillary site works adjacent to the dwelling
Retention · Limerick County Council, 2561
15 Aug 2018Refused
the construction of a dwelling house, garage, entrance, waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works
Outline permission · Limerick County Council, 18815
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: Askeaton Fen Complex SAC 002279
Recorded monuments
- LI011-056 Ringfort - rath
Description
Atop low rise, in area covered by scrub vegetation. Oval area (22.3m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by earth-and-stone bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m) which is best preserved SSE->SW. Bank incorporated into field boundary system E->SSE with dry-stone wall running atop of bank. Level interior is covered by elder trees. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-058 Enclosure
Description
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Circular depression (32m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.15m) NE->SSE and SW->NW, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.9m) facing inwards SSE->SW and NW>NE. Interior, under pasture, lowest near centre. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI011-059 Ringfort - rath
Description
Atop low rise, in area covered by trees, bushes and briars. Roughly circular area (22.3m N-S; 19m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank SSE->E (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.95m); bank is overlaid by collapsed stone wall E->SSE which is part of surrounding field-boundary system. Interior is flat and partially overgrown with elder and briars. 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 Deegerty.
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 Deegerty, 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
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Deegerty.
- 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
No address of the register names Deegerty with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.
The townland
- Name
- Deegerty · Na Dígirtí
- Area
- 875,739 m² (87.57 ha, 216.4 acres)
- Civil parish
- Kilcornan, and its townlands
- Barony
- Kenry
- Electoral division
- Kilcornan, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 839 people lived in 278 households in the Kilcornan electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 35% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Ballyengland Lower, Ballyvogue, Bansha, Mornane, Shanbally
- Placenames
- Deegerty 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.