Dohora

71 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dohora, from 94 m² to 299,398 m² (29.94 ha, 73.98 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 27 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Dohora 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.

• 26 Jun 2026N/a

  i. Removal of temporary modular classroom unit ii. Construction of a single storey extension to the existing creche building iii. Alteration of existing façades & roof areas iv. Alteration of site boundaries & vehicular entrance v. Extension of childrens playground vi. Erection of external fixed canopy areas vii. Removal of existing car-parking area and provision of a new vehicle parking area for 23 no. car spaces including 4 no. disabled access vehicle spaces viii. New ancillary site structures to include a bicycle parking shelter ix. New effluent pre-treatment system to serve both the existing building & new addition with discharge to public wastewater network x. Site landscaping, boundary treatments and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2660729

• 28 Aug 2025Conditional

  the construction of an agricultural Machinery Shed and associated ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2560859

• 11 Oct 2024Refused

  removal of temporary modular classroom unit, construction of a single storey extension to the existing creche building, alteration of existing façades & roof areas, alteration of site boundaries, extension of childrens playground, erection of external fixed canopy areas, removal of existing car-parking area and provision of a new vehicle parking area for 23 no. car spaces including 4 no. disabled access vehicle spaces, new ancillary site structures to include a bicycle parking shelter, site landscaping, boundary treatments and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2461015

• 12 Aug 2024N/a

  the removal of a temporary modular classroom unit; construction of a single-storey extension to the existing crèche building, alteration of existing façades & roof areas, alteration of site boundaries, extension of children's playground, erection of external fixed canopy areas, removal of existing car-parking area and the provision of a new vehicle parking area for 23 No. car spaces including 4 No. disabled access vehicle spaces, new ancillary site structures to include a bicycle parking shelter, site landscaping, boundary treatments and ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2460803

• 13 Oct 2023Conditional

  a portable cabin containing entrance lobby, toilets and classrooms as a temporary childcare facility and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 23495

• 11 Aug 2023Conditional

  the (i) erection of modular primary classroom unit, (ii) erection of modular SEN unit, (iii) erection of new covered walkway, (iv) provide soft play area (v) modification of existing sensory footpath (vi) connection to existing services and (vii) all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 2360571

• 18 May 2023Conditional

  retention of garage and sheds and permission to change the site boundaries

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2360330

• 15 Dec 2022N/a

  a portable cabin containing entrance lobby, toilets and classrooms as a temporary childcare facility and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 221348

• 19 Oct 2022N/a

  the construction of an agricultural storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 221124

• 10 Aug 2022Conditional

  the construction of a single storey extension to the front of the existing school with connection to all existing utilities with all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 22875

• 15 Dec 2021Conditional

  demolition of dwelling and for retention and permission for completion of dwelling with all associated site works

  Retention, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 211739

• 18 Jun 2021Conditional

  construction of a milking parlour incorporating dairy, plant, storage, meal bin, holding yard with crush/drafting yard, underground effluent tank with flow channel and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21864

• 12 May 2021N/a

  construction of a poultry house, concrete apron, soiled water storage tank and all associated ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 21631

• 18 Dec 2020Refused

  the construction of an agricultural storage shed and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 201382

• 21 Jul 2020Conditional

  demolition of an existing extension to dwelling house and permission to construct a new extension to the dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 20693

• 5 Sept 2019Conditional

  a raised percolation area/polishing filter and associate site works and services. The works to be retained are within the curtilage of a Protected Structure

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 19887

• 13 May 2019Conditional

  demolition of existing dwelling and out shed . Construction of a replacement dwelling, garage, effluent treatment system, percolation area and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 19473

• 12 Feb 2019Conditional

  the construction of a livestock shed with underground storage tanks, feeding area, dungstead, concrete yards and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 19116

• 17 Aug 2018Conditional

  a calf house and machinery store

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18820

• 29 Jun 2018Conditional

  construction of a roofed livestock cubicle shed with underground slurry storage tank and construction of an uncovered collecting yard with underground soiled water storage tank and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18660

• 8 Mar 2018Conditional

  installation of portable cabin containing entrance lobby, toilets and classrooms as temporary childcare facility and all associated site works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 18217

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 Dohora.

Recorded monuments

• LI030-109 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  At the SW end of a low ridge running NE-SW, in pasture, 40m SE of a townland boundary with Anhid West. Described in the SMR file as an oval-shaped platform. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a subcircular-shaped earthwork (40m E-W; 38m N-S). Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped, tree-planted earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

• LI030-110 Moated site
  Description

  In undulating pasture, 255m E of a townland boundary with Carrow. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a substantial rectangular-shaped earthwork (79m E-W; 50m N-S). Described by Westropp, (1916-17, 22) as a straight-sided fort in the townland of Bohora, assumed to refer to Dohora. Monument is visible as a very faint, rectangular-shaped cropmark (75m E-W; 50m N-S) with a slightly smaller rectangular-shaped cropmark (60m NE-SW; 30m N-S) adjoining to S, on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/02/2009 and 16/03/2016. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/02/2009 and 16/03/2016 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

• LI030-112 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, 500m SE of a townland boundary with Carrow. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork that is bisected by a townland boundary separating two parts of Dohora townland. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (53m N-S; 55m E-W) with townland boundary no longer shown. Described in the SMR file as a ditched enclosure. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

Architectural heritage

• Teacher's house, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former teacher's house, built c. 1880, having porch to front and two-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof with overhanging eaves and rendered chimneystacks. Flat roof to porch. Rendered walls with render quoins. Square-headed openings having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and painted sills. Round-headed openings to porch, east elevation with shared sill. Round-headed opening to porch having replacement uPVC glazed overlight and door. Gable-fronted single-bay single-storey outbuilding to north with pitched corrugated-iron roof. Roughcast rendered walls. Square-headed opening with double-leaf timber battened doors. Pair of square-profile rendered piers to east with rusticated limestone caps and double-leaf cast-iron gates. Rubble limestone boundary walls to site.

• The Old School House, school, 1870–1890 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey former school, built c. 1880, having shallow pedimented breakfront to front (east) elevation. Pitched slate roof with render chimneystack. Rubble limestone walls with rusticated panel inscribed: "BANOGUE [sic] NATIONAL SCHOOL". Square-headed openings with bipartite two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with roughly dressed limestone quoins and concrete sills. Square-headed opening having roughly dressed limestone voussoirs and timber battened door with glazed overlight. Pair of square-profile roughcast rendered piers to east with concrete caps and single-leaf cast-iron gate. Snecked limestone walls to 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).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_885 (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.

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

Name

Dohora · An Dumhach Chorrach

Area

3,136,192 m² (313.62 ha, 774.97 acres)

Civil parish

Anhid, and its townlands

Barony

Coshma

Electoral division

Ballynabanoge, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ballynabanoge electoral division: 330 people in 114 households; 82% of households own their home; 20% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Anhid East, Anhid West, Ballymacrory, Ballymacrory, Ballynabanoge, Carrow, Kilmore, Kingsland, Morenane, Pullagh

Placenames

Dohora 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.