Doonakenna

73 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonakenna, from 200 m² to 271,929 m² (27.19 ha, 67.2 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 42 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 Doonakenna 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.

• 20 Oct 2023Conditional

  the construction of (a) a single storey extension to east side and west side gables of dormer dwelling house and all ancillary works, (b) a domestic garage and all ancillary works

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 23508

• 15 Oct 2020Conditional

  the construction of 6 cattle underpasses and 1 cattle overpass. The underpasses will consist of concrete culverts beneath the Greenway surface to allow cattle crossing and to maintain the safety of pedestrian and cyclist users of the Greenway

  Permission · Limerick County Council, 208006

• 10 Jul 2020Conditional

  the construction of a new dwelling, garage, waste water treatment system, vehicular entrance and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Limerick County Council, 20627

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Protection Area: Stack's to Mullaghareirk Mountains, West Limerick Hills and Mount Eagle SPA 004161

Recorded monuments

• LI035-009001 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Map also shows smaller enclosure (LI035-00902-) abutting it on S side- this also now levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI035-009002 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Map also shows larger enclosure (LI035-00901-) abutting it on N side- this also now levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI035-010 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In flat, low-lying pasture. Monument, depicted on 1923 OS 6-inch map as semicircular arc of embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) truncated on NW side by linear field boundary, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Field boundary now also levelled. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LI035-011 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In gently undulating pasture. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. Dumped material, evident along field boundary which abutted enclosure on SE side, probably derives from bank. Faint depression, with concentration of stones along its inner edge, may mark line of fosse (diam. c. 30m). Interior now uneven and stony, and overgrown by gorse and scrub on S side. 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 Doonakenna.

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 Doonakenna, 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 high, moderately low, low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

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

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

Name

Doonakenna · Dún Mhic Cionaoith

Area

1,687,614 m² (168.76 ha, 417.02 acres)

Civil parish

Monagay, and its townlands

Barony

Glenquin

Electoral division

Templeglentan, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,038 people lived in 351 households in the Templeglentan electoral division. 87% of households owned their home. 28% of homes were built since 2001. 11% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballymurragh East, Ballymurragh West, Garryduff, Glendarragh, Meenyline North, Meenyline South, Sugarhill

Placenames

Doonakenna 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.