Doocatteen

9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doocatteen, from 47 m² to 276,061 m² (27.61 ha, 68.22 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 17 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 Doocatteen 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 Mar 2026Conditional

  the existing storage shed and office space and all associated site works

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2681

• 19 Jan 2024Conditional

  the construction of a two storey dwelling house, entrance, driveway, wastewater treatment unit, polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 2416

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 Doocatteen.

Recorded monuments

• LI028-124 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle W-facing slope. Circular area (24.2m N-S; 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.75m; ext. H 1.35m) WNW->NNE, and at SSE, and defined by scarped edge (H 0.9m; Wth 4m) elsewhere. Slight dip towards base of scarp N->E may indicate silted up fosse. Bank densely overgrown with thorn bushes. Drain, running N-S, truncates base of scarp at W. Interior under pasture and E third slightly lower than remainder. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI028-126 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle NE-facing slope. Circular area (15.5m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.4m; Wth 1.4m) with external fosse (Wth 3.8m; D 0.45m). Scarp, marginally higher along W arc, is generally covered with overgrowth and has been eroded by cattle in places. Causeway (Wth c. 3m) across fosse at W. Fosse is covered by irises. Interior is under pasture; E half is slightly lower than remainder. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-015 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture. Circular area (19.2m N-S: 21.3m E-W) defined by scarped edge (H 1.25m; Wth 1.45m). Interior level, under marshy pasture and heavily poached by cattle, with some overgrowth along edges. Located 12m to NW is waterlogged circular depression (36.4m N-S; 39.2m E-W; D 1.45m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI036-023 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In level pasture. Circular area (35m N-S; 37.2m E-W) enclosed by two concentric earthen banks with an intervening fosse (Wth 3.25m). Internal bank (int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.35m) completes full circuit, but external bank (int. H 0.95m; ext. H 0.55m) extant only SSE->W though probably incorporated into field boundary which skirts site NW->E. Gap (Wth 2.5m) in internal bank at N. Gap in both banks at S (Wth 2m). A recently constructed causeway (Wth 4m) crosses fosse at W. Gap (Wth 2.7m) in external bank at W. External bank abutted by E-W running field boundary at SSE. Interior level, dry and clear of overgrowth. 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 Doocatteen.

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 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_437 (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 Doocatteen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick.

Name

Doocatteen · Dumhach Chaitín

Area

814,245 m² (81.42 ha, 201.2 acres)

Civil parish

Newcastle, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Ardagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh electoral division: 1,037 people in 384 households; 83% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinena, Ballylahiff, Churchtown, Dunganville Lower, Enaghgare, Kilrodane

Placenames

Doocatteen 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.