# Dooneen Upper, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Crecora, barony of Pubblebrien, Co. Limerick; in Irish An Dúinín Uachtarach. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 243,952 m² (24.4 ha, 60.28 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 20,464 m² (2.05 ha, 5.06 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 1 application since 2010 - Civil parish: Crecora, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/crecora.md - Barony: Pubblebrien - Electoral division: Crecora, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): Crecora electoral division: 461 people in 155 households; 89% of households own their home; 25% of homes were built since 2001; 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/30618 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120885 - Centre: latitude 52.58708, longitude -8.67929 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dooneen Upper, from 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres) to 103,336 m² (10.33 ha, 25.53 acres); 9 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1636912: 103,336 m² (10.33 ha, 25.53 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1636912.md - Parcel 1643150: 56,640 m² (5.66 ha, 14 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1643150.md - Parcel 1654209: 31,451 m² (3.15 ha, 7.77 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1654209.md - Parcel 1588484: 23,670 m² (2.37 ha, 5.85 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1588484.md - Parcel 1608173: 17,258 m² (1.73 ha, 4.26 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1608173.md - Parcel 1650607: 4,803 m² (0.48 ha, 1.19 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1650607.md - Parcel 1647883: 4,448 m² (0.44 ha, 1.1 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647883.md - Parcel 1674263: 2,346 m² (0.23 ha, 0.58 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1674263.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Dooneen Upper in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 1 application, newest first. - 2 May 2025, Limerick County Council 25145: Conditional. Retention. existing stables, store and loft amenity space, detached metal garage and detached storage sheds. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/25145/0 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 Dooneen Upper. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI022-185: Enclosure, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI022-185----. In pasture on a slight E-facing slope 20m NE of townland boundary with Logavinshire. Identified as Site 21 by Celie O’Rahilly, archaeologist, Limerick Corporation as part of an archaeological assessment for the development of a racecourse at Greenmount, Co. Limerick. It was described as following; ‘a low bank defining a semicircular area ca. 30m in diameter which has been cut by a cattle yard on the west side ’ (O‘Rahilly 1995). Visited by the ASI in 2000 and described as no enclosing element visible. Monument visible on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012 but not on Google Earth orthoimages. See attached location map by Celie O'Rahilly showing location of site 21. Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick Date upload: 11 August 2020 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Dooneen Upper. ## 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 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_910, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_910.zip (ZIP). - 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/dooneen-upper.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dooneen-upper.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dooneen-upper.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Dooneen Upper 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) - Dooneen: https://everytownland.com/limerick/dooneen.md - Greenmount: https://everytownland.com/limerick/greenmount.md - Logavinshire: https://everytownland.com/limerick/logavinshire.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. --- 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/dooneen-upper - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/dooneen-upper