Doonbeirne

11 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonbeirne, from 263 m² to 331,560 m² (33.16 ha, 81.93 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 12 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Limerick Development Plan 2022-2028, Limerick · 1 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 23 Mar 2026Conditional

  a hobby shed, two garden sheds, a timber open-sized gazebo and a polytunnel in the rear garden area

  Retention · Limerick County Council, 2671

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 Doonbeirne.

Recorded monuments

• LI029-101 Mound
  Description

  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
  Description

  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
  Description

  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

Architectural heritage

• House, farm house, 1760–1800 · Regional interest
  Description

  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.

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

Name

Doonbeirne · Dún Beirn

Area

888,132 m² (88.81 ha, 219.46 acres)

Civil parish

Rathkeale, and its townlands

Barony

Connello Lower

Electoral division

Ballingarry, the unit of the census

Census 2022

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.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyea, Ballynamucky, Ballynarooga Beg, Downs, Kilnamona, Knightstreet

Placenames

Doonbeirne 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.