# Doonskerdeen, Co. Limerick: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Robertstown, barony of Shanid, Co. Limerick; in Irish Dún Sceirdín. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 511,357 m² (51.14 ha, 126.36 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 2 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Robertstown, https://everytownland.com/limerick/parish/robertstown.md - Barony: Shanid - Electoral division: Shanagolden, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 922 people lived in 370 households in the Shanagolden electoral division. 79% of households owned their home. 18% of homes were built since 2001. 10% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Limerick, https://everytownland.com/limerick.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/32303 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 120887 - Centre: latitude 52.5906, longitude -9.125733 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 9 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Doonskerdeen, from 1,459 m² to 348,377 m² (34.84 ha, 86.09 acres); 14 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1612486: 348,377 m² (34.84 ha, 86.09 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1612486.md - Parcel 1601915: 145,478 m² (14.55 ha, 35.95 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1601915.md - Parcel 1589706: 4,772 m² (0.48 ha, 1.18 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1589706.md - Parcel 5642954: 4,480 m² (0.45 ha, 1.11 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5642954.md - Parcel 3267673: 2,258 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267673.md - Parcel 3267674: 2,252 m² (0.23 ha, 0.56 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/3267674.md - Parcel 5642869: 2,079 m² (0.21 ha, 0.51 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/5642869.md - Parcel 1647651: 1,950 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1647651.md - Parcel 1605721: 1,459 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/1605721.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Doonskerdeen 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) 2 applications, newest first. - 13 Dec 2019, Limerick County Council 191238: Conditional. Permission, 1 home. the construction of a new 246sq.m two-storey dwelling house to replace the existing dwelling and outbuildings. Works to include demolition of existing structures, provision of a new wastewater treatment plant, widening of existing entrance to provide sightlines and all ancillary drainage, site works and external landscaping. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/191238/0 - 14 Dec 2017, Limerick County Council 171174: Conditional. Permission. ten year permission to develop a solar farm consisting of construction & operation of solar PV arrays mounted on metal frames on a 18HA site including: 1 no. electrical control building & onsite substation. Up to 4 no. inverter units, a temporary construction area & ancillary facilities, boundary fencing with CCTV units, an access track, all associated works, including (gross floor space of proposed works up to 144.80sqm) & habitat management & enhancement measures & drainage swale. The planning application is accompanied by an environmental report & stage 1 screening for appropriate assessment. File: https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/171174/0 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 Doonskerdeen. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) - LI010-054: Mound, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CLI010-054----. In low-lying marshy terrain. The monument, which is depicted as a circular mound (diam. c. 5m) on the 1923 OS 6-inch map, has been eroded by quarrying. It is now evident as an irregular-shaped rise (L c. 7.4m; H c. 0.7m) obscured by tall grass and scrub overgrowth. 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) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Doonskerdeen. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: at the centre of the townland of Doonskerdeen, 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: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred. - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Doonskerdeen. - 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/doonskerdeen.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonskerdeen.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/limerick/doonskerdeen.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Doonskerdeen 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) - Ballinree: https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballinree.md - Ballynash (Bishop): https://everytownland.com/limerick/ballynash-bishop.md - Knockpatrick: https://everytownland.com/limerick/knockpatrick.md - Mountdavid: https://everytownland.com/limerick/mountdavid.md - Shanagolden Demesne: https://everytownland.com/limerick/shanagolden-demesne.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/doonskerdeen - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/limerick/doonskerdeen