# Doonbeirne, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning

Townland in the civil parish of Rathkeale, barony of Connello Lower, Co. Limerick; in Irish Dún Beirn.

- Area (Tailte Éireann): 888,132 m² (88.81 ha, 219.46 acres)
- Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 61,422 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres)
- Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): R2 Existing Residential, the zone with the most parcels
- Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010
- Civil parish: Rathkeale, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/rathkeale.md
- Barony: Connello Lower
- Electoral division: Ballingarry, the unit of the census
- Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Ballingarry electoral division: 970 people in 369 households; 75% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md
- Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30499
- Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120882
- Centre: latitude 52.473027, longitude -8.877594 (WGS 84)

## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann)

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonbeirne, from 263 m² to 331,560 m² (33.16 ha, 81.93 acres); 12 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first:

- Parcel 1598160: 331,560 m² (33.16 ha, 81.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598160.md
- Parcel 1661147: 187,531 m² (18.75 ha, 46.34 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1661147.md
- Parcel 1612687: 88,431 m² (8.84 ha, 21.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612687.md
- Parcel 1639369: 73,591 m² (7.36 ha, 18.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1639369.md
- Parcel 1598406: 70,765 m² (7.08 ha, 17.49 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1598406.md
- Parcel 1664318: 61,422 m² (6.14 ha, 15.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1664318.md
- Parcel 1616227: 31,783 m² (3.18 ha, 7.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1616227.md
- Parcel 1636492: 23,785 m² (2.38 ha, 5.88 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636492.md
- Parcel 1608301: 2,513 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608301.md
- Parcel 1589936: 2,136 m² (0.21 ha, 0.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589936.md
- Parcel 1612338: 263 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612338.md

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- R2 Existing Residential (Existing residential): Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick; 1 parcel. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.limerick.ie/sites/default/files/media/documents/2022-07/Volume-2b-Level-4-5-and-6.pdf#page=13

## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

1 application, newest first.

- 23 Mar 2026, Limerick County Council 2671: Conditional. Retention. a hobby shed, two garden sheds, a timber open-sized gazebo and a polytunnel in the rear garden area. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2671/0

Applicants are not shown.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Doonbeirne.

## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

- LI029-101: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-101----. On a S-facing slope, in an area covered by briars and bracken within an extensive quarry complex. An oval mound of earth-and-stone (H 0.75m; 9m N-S; 14m E-W) that is masked by a dense overgrowth of scrub vegetation. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI029-102: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI029-102----. In pasture, on NNW-facing slope, with quarry adjacent immediately to WNW. Monument, depicted as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1841 OS 6-inch map, has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Enclosing bank is depicted only NE->SW on 1923 OS 6-inch map. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011
- LI037-033: Ringfort - rath, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI037-033----. In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (29m N-S; 28m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 1.95m) with external fosse (D 0.7m; Wth 1.3m). Bank eroded by cattle accessing interior at NNW and SSE. Farm trackway skirts enclosing element at E. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

- House, farm house, 1760–1800, Regional interest, registry number 21902916, https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=LC&regno=21902916. Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1780, having single-bay single-storey with dormer attic addition to side (south) and single-bay single-storey projecting porch to front (west) and single-bay single-storey extension to rear (east). Pitched thatched roof with red brick chimneystack to main house with rendered gable copings. Pitched slate roof to side addition with rendered eaves course, gable copings and red brick chimneystack. Flat bitumen clad roofs to porch and extension. Rendered walls throughout with rendered plinth to porch and front elevation of house. Square-headed window openings having rendered stone sills and one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows throughout. Replacement timber and uPVC casement windows to rear elevation openings. Timber-framed bipartite window to front elevation of porch comprising having one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows. Timber casement windows to gable of side (south) elevation. Square-headed door opening with raised render reveals and timber panelled door to side (north) elevation of porch. Rendered enclosing walls with render coping enclosing rose garden. Single-storey outbuildings forming farmyard to south, having rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with having rubbed red brick voussoirs and camber-headed door openings with rubbed red brick voussoirs to northern range of farmyard.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonbeirne.
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

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.

## Downloads

- DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonbeirne.dxf
- GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonbeirne.geojson
- KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonbeirne.kml

## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register)

No address of the register names Doonbeirne with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Limerick: https://everytownland.com/limerick.md

## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann)

- Ballyea: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballyea-120220.md
- Ballynamucky: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynamucky.md
- Ballynarooga Beg: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynarooga-beg.md
- Downs: https://everytownland.com/limerick/downs.md
- Kilnamona: https://everytownland.com/limerick/kilnamona.md
- Knightstreet: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knightstreet.md

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.

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Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation.

Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged.

- Page: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonbeirne
- In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/doonbeirne